The island of Pelletieri is the Ladoga area is literally a few kilometers from the mainland and 22 km from the famous island of Valaam. Ladoga skerries are a picturesque archipelago of small rocky Islands located in the coastal area in the North of the Ladoga lake – here was planned the formation of the famous national Park "Ladoga skerries". The distance from Pelletieri to the island of Valaam on the water line is 24 km away. If you follow the cruise route, the time of passage of the vessel from Balaam to Pelletieri will be approximately an hour and a half. The small size of the island: the width is 3 km, and the length is 4 km away.

At the moment the famous island extremely popular especially among the most active tourists) that in the area of Ladoga you can travel on boats or motoclube. In the upcoming time you plan to organize a special Parking area designated for ships, and to hold the opening of the island for mass and wide tourists. Now the island has been restored and updated ship Parking. To the dock to swim to the sides for mooring at a time several ships. With regard to the duration of berthing cruising and cruise ships, on the island, Parking is permitted for 5-6 hours.

On the island of Pelletieri available and well-maintained walking a circular path. It is also called an environmental trail. Its total length is about 3 km and an approximate time that will be spent to complete the study, will be about 3 hours. The pedestrian environmental trail and there is an indication of 28 natural sites. The territory of Pelletieri beautifully furnished, all trails are passable in places rise made steps, and especially on muddy places there are special bridges.

As you know, the island of Pelletieri had entered into possession of Finland, and since then the island has retained some of the foundations of Finnish, Russian and Swedish families who lived here until the mid-20th century. The island was discovered by the school, as well as a jetty for large ships.

Once on the island of Pelletieri was mined mountain quartzite; now the stone himself leads the tourist route. Especially interesting is the fact that quartzite faults completely flooded, resulting in an almost bottomless bowls filled with ice-cold pure water.

The island has a picturesque and unspoilt beach, which offers beautiful views of lake Ladoga, and on the island of Valaam.

In addition, the island of Pelletieri taiga is an island, numerous vegetation and landscape which is mostly due to the activity of the glacier retreated from the area of Ladoga approximately 10-12 thousand years ago.

Small size of the island did not affect the diversity of landscapes, flora and fauna. On Pelletieri you can look into the hidden corners of nature, almost untouched by human activity, but there are also landscapes that have changed under the influence of economic activities of people.

Almost the entire territory of the island of Pelletieri covered by dense forests with dominance of conifers. On the island there are also meadows are one of the most amazing ecosystems pertaining to the Ladoga skerries. The most extensive community presents rock plants, and some of them are listed in the Red book of Russia.

The active change in the nature of Pelletieri started to happen since the 16th century, when people increasingly began to develop their livestock production and farming. In the South-West of the island has preserved not only the foundations of houses of different nationalities, but also the foundations of outbuildings, various fragments of fences, ruins of buildings, drainage ditches, as well as traces from the planting of some vegetation types. The rest of the island of Pelletieri slowly recovering the initial shape of the boreal forest: roads disappear, overgrown vegetation agricultural land. On the island is gradually recovering the structure of a forest belt, back of a particularly rare species of mosses, lichens, and various plants that can't live with constant human activity.