OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2012. Students of the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, have visited Karelia to get acquainted with work of its timber industry enterprises and organizations.

The trip was organized for students from Finland, as well as from Austria, Spain, Holland and other countries, by Professor Timo Karjalajnen responsible at the university for the Russian forestry research program. One of the courses of this program includes a fact-finding trip to our country. These trips either to Leningrad region, or to Karelia take place twice a year.

During the trip foreign students, in particular, visited the central forestry of Medvezhiegorsk where experts of the Ministry of Nature Management and Ecology of the RK and of the forestry have told about their activities. Matters during the conversation concerned both organization of work of the forestry, and the forest industry of Karelia as a whole. Thus, for example, the guests were interested in preparation for the forest fire season and the system of suppression of forest fires. Experts of the Ministry Ivan Petukhov and Elena Sabayeva have answered questions of students, and have shown the new fire-prevention information boards which appeared this year in woods of the republic. Most of all the guests liked the Karelian bear drawn on information boards warning tourists about the necessity to remember of the forest preservation.

According to the meeting participants, such dialogue helps professionals and experts-to be to learn the forest management system of our countries better and offers good prospects of mutually useful dialogue.