Yanis Järvi

Jänisjärvi lies north of Lake Ladoga in the Karelian lake country. Its roughly circular basin was formed by a meteorite impact hundreds of millions of years ago. Rivers and channels carry its waters southward to Ladoga, linking the inland lake with the great waterway on the Karelian frontier. Forests surround the lake, whose Finnish name means Hare Lake; its shores belonged to the communities of the northern Ladoga district.