Rautavaara

Rautavaara lies among the lakes, bogs and forests of northern Savolax. Local farmers smelted iron from bog and lake ores, a craft practiced in northeastern Savolax from at least the sixteenth century. On a small islet in Lake Tiilikkajärvi stands a boundary stone marking the frontier drawn between Sweden and Russia in 1595; its carvings include a crown and a cross.