What is the land directly east of Finland?

Question

Okay, there's a distinct land mass called Scandinavia, with Norway in the west, Sweden in the middle, and Finland to the east, and there's yet another part of this land mass to the east of Finland. What is it?? I know it's Russian, or was part of the Soviet Union, but is there a distinct "Slavo-Scandinavian" culture in that particular region?

Answer 1

At the north end of Finland in Russia is the Kola Peninsula. Not much up there but water and air pollution and deforested areas. Murmansk is a city 200 mi north of the Arctic circle of 500,000 people or so. It is a warm water port that does not freeze solid in the winter, so there is a lot of shipping out of the area. It was destroyed by Germany in WWII since that was the main Soviet naval base in the north. The people are very slavic since in became inhabited during the soviet era. The true natives of all the northern parts of scandinavia and this area are called Suni. I think they are pretty well assimilated, but they are not unlike Eskimo people in Alaska or Canada.

Answer 2

I stand to disagree with your definition of Scandinavia: it is Norway to the west, Sweden to the east and Denmark to the south.

Finland is sometimes also considered Scandinavian because of the fact that it was under Swedish control for hundreds of years. Estonia was also under Swedish control for a similar period but is not considered Scandinavia. Additionally, Finnish and Estonian are very similar and the two nations feel a close cultural bond with each other ... one that is not Scandinavian, but northern, east Baltic...

Otherwise the fellow above me answers your question so well there is no need for improvement.

Answer 3

it's Russia. there is a lot of back-and-forth between the 2 countries. people from Russia come to Finland to shop. while Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all speak languages that are almost the same, Finnish is very different.