Lake Seliger

There is one absolutely special place in my country, and I want to begin my first posts with it. It is called Seliger.

Isn't it breathtaking?
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

Actually that’s the name of a lake. And maybe you’ve already heard of it. Lately it has become rather famous because of the educational forum (camp) for young people organized  by the initiative of our president.

That's the place where the educational forum is held every summer.
If you want to know more about it, you can read some information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seliger_(forum)

 Despite the fact that people seem to know this place, actually they do not. First of all, the lake is very large and it locates in 2 districts (in Russian ‘oblast’) called Tverskaya (where the forum is, it is also close to Moscow oblast, so closer to the capital) and Novgorodskaya (includes the minor part of the lake).

That's how Lake Seliger looks like if you want to get a bird's eye view
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

There is only one city along the lake shores, Ostashkov.
It is located in Tverskaya oblast
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

Ostashkov. I can't take my eyes off this incredible picture
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

And that's a dream of any Russian city dweller -
to have a house along the very edge of a lake or river, exactly as in this picture
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

 The first one is known much better. It refers to the Russians and consequentially foreigners who learn things about our country from the Internet and few friends. I deliberately googled this topic and found in English just very little information about Seliger, most of which was about Tverskaya oblast (when it comes to the same thing in Russian there is just a bit more material, but it is tragically shrunk). 

The road along the lake that connects to regions: Tverskaya and Novgorodskaya
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

To my mind, it’s such a pity, so unfair not to know that this beauty even exists! So I've decided to change that.

Ostashkov. 
Doesn't this picture make you want to know more about the place?
Photo credit: http://edwardjournal.livejournal.com 

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