After seeing the fighting and burning town in Petsamo the soldiers and officers of the Alta Battalion began to view war as a reality and not merely something found in the history books.
In 1898 he went to Petsamo's Pechenga Monastery where he became a monk in 1913 after 15 years of being in the monastery.
Luostari (inhabited locality), an inhabited locality in Korzunovsky Territorial Okrug of Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast
The main strategic interest of Germany in the region were the nickel mines in the Petsamo area.
Pechengsky District (est. 1945), a district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia
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