#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first floating hotel on water (houseboat), operating in the Far North, began accepting tourists in Monchegorsk, Murmansk region. The project is planned to be scaled to other territories of the country.
A houseboat is a comfortable residential building that can walk on a pond and be used for travel and year-round living. This trend is gaining popularity not only in Russia, but throughout the world. So, in Germany there is an entire commune with its own floating church, in Amsterdam there are houses, hotels and a flower shop on water, and in London there is a water recording studio.
The floating hotel is located on lake Lumbolka in Monchegorsk. From the deck of the houseboat in winter you can watch the northern lights, go fishing in the warm season, and in August, the warmest month for the Murmansk region, you can even set up a sun lounger and sunbathe. RIA Novosti reports this.
As Alexander Polenkov, head of the business and investments direction at the Monchegorsk Development Agency, said, such self-propelled houses are quite popular in the central and southern parts of Russia, but they have not existed in the Arctic before.
“It is planned that in the near future a whole complex of three self-propelled houses called Ozerny Krai will appear in Monchegorsk. Each of them will have its own sources of heating, water supply and electricity, an open seating area on the foredeck and a saloon with panoramic glazing”, Alexander Polenkov added.
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Text: Irina Chernyshova, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
