Karelian national Ortjo Stepanov has described a life and destinies of fellow countrymen - the Karelian peasants in his books. There is a literary-ethnographic museum in village Haikolya, writer’s native land. The 300-years barn is still situated in patrimony country. There is a gravestone made of a natural boulder that weight 8 tons in O.Stepanov's tomb.
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