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(From The Moscow Times)
SPITSINO, Pskov Region -- Heiner Berr was inspired to start a resort on Chudskoye Lake, a sprawling body of water in northwest Russia, when a local official showed him the site and promised to support the project.
"Very naively, we agreed and started," the German businessman said in an interview. "In the first years, there was only trouble."
Sitting in a wooden cabin, Berr described how he turned a beautiful but barren stretch of land into a European-style resort called Chudskoye Podvorye, which now has 43 cabins amid a landscape of sand dunes and forests.
Located 250 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg, ...