Lake Imandra

Imandra stretches across the southwestern Kola Peninsula below the Khibiny mountains. Narrow straits join its three principal basins, Great, Ekostrovskaya and Babinskaya Imandra, and islands dot its complicated shoreline. The Niva drains the lake towards the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea. Sámi communities lived around its waters; the Ekostrov pogost is recorded in 1574. Fish and the connected waterways formed part of the life of the inland lake country.