Ponoy River Valley Labyrinths

Stone labyrinths in the remote Ponoy River valley on the Kola Peninsula — one of the rare inland labyrinth sites in the Arctic, where the vast majority of labyrinths occupy coastal positions. The Kola Peninsula is home to the world's deepest borehole (12,262 meters), drilled by Soviet scientists. The Ponoy River is one of Russia's premier Atlantic salmon rivers, and the valley's indigenous Sami population maintained seasonal fishing camps here for millennia. At Giza bearing 6.36°, the inland placement suggests these labyrinths served river-based rather than maritime communities.