2017 Tour Karelia
Berlin – Szczecin – Kaliningrad – Curonian Nutrition – Riga – Pskov – Luga – St. Petersburg – Petrozavodsk –
Lake Onega – Vologda – Yaroslavl – Moscow – Smolensk – Minsk – Brest – Warsaw – Berlin ca. 5,600 km
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| Press event in Freiberg before departure to Berlin | Farewell at the Brandenburg Gate, ca. 350 people drive in approx. 140 vehicles to Russia! | Team meeting on a motorway rest area just before Szczecin |
| Video Druzhba Friendship Ride Russia 2017 – The Start of Berlin (23.07.2017) | ||
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| Accommodation at Kaliningrader Hostel Grazy Dog | Warm welcome in Kaliningrad with cultural program | On the Baltic Sea promenade in Selenogradsk |
| Video Druzhba Friendship Tour Russia 2017 – The journey from Berlin to Kaliningrad (24.07.2017) | ||
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| Presence of the Russian media from the beginning, Kaliningrad | Curonian Spit, The Dancing Forest (National Park) | At the Estonian-Russian border crossing |
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| In Pskov | Delicious early stucco in a Pskow canteen | Holy Mary’s Sleep Pskowo-Pechersky Monastery |
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| Postal column from 1668: the first place where the mail was delivered from Russia to the other European countries via Sweden | Holy Mary’s Sleep Pskowo-Pechersky Monastery | The 12 sacred springs of the monastery |
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| Meeting with Pskov peace activists from kla.tv | At the Partisan Monument in Luga near St Petersburg | At the Partisan Monument in Luga near St Petersburg |
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| Discussion of the further journey at the city festival in Ggattschina near St Petersburg | Navy Day in St Petersburg | Navy Day in St Petersburg |
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| A wedding in St Petersburg | Meeting with the Swiss Association peace train (El’ Achai) in Petershof | |
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| In Petershof | Our expert accompaniment in St Petersburg from the common-used organization “Defenders of the Nevsky Bridgehead” Colonel a.D. Sergei Panin | Visit to the Nevsky Bridgehead |
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| Visit to the Nevsky Bridgehead | Visit to the largest German military cemetery near Sologubovka | |
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| Exchange of gifts brought with the local administration | ||
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| Exchange of gifts brought with you | Joint parachute jump for peace in St Petersburg parachute sports club “Walküre” | |
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| Joint parachute jump for peace in St Petersburg parachute sports club “Walküre” | ||
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| Joint parachute jump for peace in St Petersburg parachute sports club “Walküre” | ||
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| Joint parachute jump for peace in St Petersburg parachute sports club “Walküre” | ||
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| Joint parachute jump for peace in St Petersburg parachute sports club “Walküre” | In Petrozavodsk, Karelia | |
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| Excursion to the open-air museum “Kischi” with a hydrofoil | ||
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| Open-air museum “Kischi” | Open-air museum “Kischi” | Open-air museum “Kischi” |
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| Open-air museum “Kischi” | Open-air museum “Kischi” | Open-air museum “Kischi” |
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| At the ancient volcano “Girvas”, Karelia | At the ancient volcano “Girvas”, Karelia | At the ancient volcano “Girvas”, Karelia |
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| At the ancient volcano “Girvas”, Karelia | Lake Onega, Medvezhjegorsk | Lake Onega, Medvezhjegorsk |
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| Road construction in Karelia | Encounters in Vologda | Encounters in Vologda |
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| In front of our Hostel Piligrim in Wologda | At the war memorial in Vologda | Meeting with the city administration in Vologda |
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| Impressions in Vologda | Impressions in Vologda | Impressions in Vologda |
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| Impressions in Vologda | Impressions in Vologda | Impressions in Vologda |
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| Impressions in Yaroslavl | Impressions in Yaroslavl | Impressions in Yaroslavl |
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| Impressions in Yaroslavl | Trip to Rostov Velikij | Trip to Rostov Velikij |
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| Trip to Rostov Velikij | Trip to Rostov Velikij | Trip to Rostov Velikij |
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| Trip to Rostov Velikij | Trip to Rostov Velikij | Rostover Kremlin |
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| Rostover Kremlin | Rostover Kremlin | Rostover Kremlin |
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| Rostover Kremlin | Rostover Kremlin | Impressions in Jaroslavl, in Hostel Kislorod |
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| Impressions in Jaroslavl, in Hostel Kislorod (Oxygen) | Impressions in Jaroslavl | |
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| Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Jaroslavl |
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| Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Jaroslavl |
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| Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Jaroslavl | Impressions in Moscow |
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| In the Moscow Cultural Centre | Lunch in a canteen | Moscow Metro |
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| Roundtable at the House of Friendship, Moscow | In the House of Friendship, Moscow | Action “Peace Cedar” in Ismajlov Park, Moscow |
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| Action “Peace Cedar” in Ismajlov Park, Moscow | ||
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| Action “Peace Cedar” in Ismajlov Park, Moscow | ||
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| Action “Peace Cedar” in Ismajlov Park, Moscow | Laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in alexander garden | |
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| Laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in alexander garden | ||
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| Laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in alexander garden | In the Biker Centre at the Night Wolves | |
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| Music evening in the wooden castle of Alexei Mikhailovich, Kolomenskoe (former Zahrenresiedens) | ||
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| In Gorky Park, Moscow | In Gorky Park, Moscow | In Gorky Park, Moscow |
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| Impressions in Moscow, Ismajlovo | Impressions in Moscow, Ismajlovo | Moscow, farewell to the host family |
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| On the market in Smolensk | On the market in Smolensk | Katyn Memorial near Smolensk |
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| Katyn Memorial near Smolensk | Katyn Memorial near Smolensk | Katyn Memorial near Smolensk |
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| Picnic break on the highway | Minsk, Hostel Triniti | Impressions in Minsk |
| Video Druzhba Friendship Tour Russia 2017 – Moscow – Minsk – Berlin (10.08 – 13.08.2017) | ||
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| Impressions in Minsk | Impressions in Minsk | Impressions in Minsk |
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| Impressions in Minsk | Impressions in Minsk | Impressions in Minsk |
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| Impressions in Minsk | At the Belarusian-Polish border | At the Belarusian-Polish border |
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| At the Belarusian-Polish border | Arrival in Berlin | Arrival in Berlin |