Mountain Sampo is 37 km from the city of Petrozavodsk, on the territory of the Kondopoga district. You can reach it by personal transport or with a tour group, bus moving along the route on the Marcial waters, concejero Spasskaya Guba on Sampo don't stop.

Karelo-Finnish mythology, the Sampo takes place one of a kind miracle item that has magical powers and is the source of happiness, abundance and prosperity. It usually presents in the form of a windmill.

According to legends runes, Sampo was forged Ilmarinen as a ransom for the wedding for the daughter of the old woman Louhi, hostess of Paheli to which courted Ilmarinen. Sampo due to its magic power can be ground much money, salt, and bread that will suffice not only for food and supplies, but also to the device of peers. The roof of the mill symbolizes the vault of heaven, studded with numerous stars rotating around the center of its axis – the pillars on which rests the whole world.

In explanation of the world famous Karelian-Finnish epos "Kalevala" on the mountain Sampo in the 1960s was filmed the movie "Sampo". The Central theme of the epic is to steal the Sampo from Pohly: väinämöinen goes to Pohela together with Ilmarinen and Lemminkainen, lulls residents and Sampo gets out from under the mountain. At a time when he takes Sampo in the boat, wakes up the mistress of Paheli and catches up to the kidnappers.

During their struggle Sampo inadvertently broken, and its fragments are drowning in the sea, but later part of the wreckage of the fabulous mills were carried by the waves to the shore of Kalevala. Caught and buried them in the ground wise Vainamoinen. Since that time in Karelia forever happiness and contentment, and the mountain Sampo is considered a place of power and performances of the most treasured desires. On the hill there grows the tree of wishes – the ancient and mighty pine, making a wish on it to hang a shred from his garments.