Valley of Hares: The Karelia Cliff Being Covered With 1,000 Rabbits
A man in Karelia is slowly carving 1,000 hares into a cliff — mostly through his own money, labor, and stubborn belief in the project.
About 20 miles from Petrozavodsk, there is a place where a rock face is slowly turning into a work of art. Here, under the open sky, hares appear on the stone: running, sitting, alert, funny, and all very different. This is the “Valley of Hares,” a large-scale land art project by Sergey Gapanovich. The sculptor began it in 2018 and continues working on it to this day.
The main thing in this story is not even the number, although the idea is impressive: on a rock face about 650 feet long and up to 33 feet high, there should eventually be 1,000 hares. As of spring 2026, there are already about 700 of them. What matters even more is something else: this is a rare…
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