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The sandy village of Shoyna on the Kanin Nos Peninsula may compete with Kuzomeni
— In the 1950s, 15 thousand people lived here. The collective farm's fishing fleet numbered more than 70 vessels. Predatory fishing with heavy trawls led to the complete destruction of bottom vegetation, as a result of which thousands of tons of sand were washed into the sea and carried away by the wind. Now more than half of the houses are buried under the dunes," says one of the users with the nickname "Serega Murman".
It was previously reported that the increasing anthropogenic load on the nature of the Northern Kola Peninsula in connection with the increased tourist flow has forced ecologists to think about expanding the boundaries of the local protected area.
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