Visitors from Russia are part of the 14th annual summer language camp sponsored by St. Scholastica and its sister college in Petrozavodsk, Russia, the Karelian State Pedagogical University (KSPU). Petrozavodsk is Duluth's sister city in Russia. The Russians are visiting St. Scholastica July 6 through July 29.
The camp has Russian students of English visiting Duluth and American students of Russian going to Petrozavodsk in alternating summers. Since 1990 about 350 students and faculty have participated in the exchange. Seven language camps have been held in Russia and this is the seventh in Duluth.
Tom Morgan of the St. Scholastica faculty created the exchange program. Morgan teaches Russian at St. Scholastica and directs the College's Center for the Study of Peace and Justice.
