About
Cranberry is a wild bog berry with bright red, sour fruit. It is picked in autumn, when the berries ripen on trailing stems.
Fresh harvest season
An orientation window for local open-field harvest in the regions already documented in the atlas — not retail, import, or storage availability.
Atlas regions summary: September 10 – October 31
Regions with data: Leningrad OblastRepublic of Karelia
By region
| Region | Season | Peak | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leningrad Oblast | September 10 – October 31 | — | Approximate |
| Republic of Karelia | September 12 – October 31 | — | Approximate |
In the kitchen
Fresh cranberries are very tart, so they are more often processed: cooked into berry drinks, jam and other preserves, made into sauces and used in baking.
Seasonality by region
Republic of Karelia(RU-KR)
Season: September – October; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- September 12 – October 31
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Cranberry. Same 2026 order: from 12 September in the south and centre, from 19 September in the Arctic. Start 12 September; end 31 October is editorial. The Leningrad MK note is not copied. Bilberry from the order is not mapped onto blueberry. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Republic of Karelia
Official publication 10 July 2026, No. 1001202607100002, registered 7 July 2026 No. 708. The portal copy is a scan; species calendar dates in this package are taken from contemporaneous Minprirody press reprints (SampoTV 360 and AiF Karelia), not from an OCR of the annex.
Karelia 2026 wild-berry harvest start dates (SampoTV 360, 8 July)
SampoTV 360 / Minprirody of the Republic of Karelia / KarRC RAS
8 July 2026: dates on the recommendation of the KarRC RAS Forest and Biology Institute. South and centre: cloudberry from 11 July, bilberry from 25 July, lingonberry from 21 August, cranberry from 12 September. Arctic about a week later. Mass-harvest starts, not season ends. Bilberry is not mapped onto catalog blueberry.
Karelia names berry harvest start dates (AiF Karelia, 8 July 2026)
AiF Karelia / Minprirody of the Republic of Karelia / KarRC RAS
8 July 2026, Petrozavodsk: the same dates as SampoTV, citing Minprirody and KarRC RAS. South/centre: cloudberry 11 July, bilberry 25 July, lingonberry 21 August, cranberry 12 September; Arctic +7 days. No season end.
Leningrad Oblast(RU-LEN)
Season: September – October; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- September 10 – October 31
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Wild cranberry. 23 August 2023 MK in Leningrad Oblast: picking starts at the end of August, better closer to mid-September. Start 10 September follows that advice, not the first sour berries. End 31 October is editorial (the text says “for a long time,” no month). LHR “as they ripen” rows are not used as dates. Lingonberry and cloudberry are not mapped here. Moscow and Voronezh are not copied. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
MK in Leningrad Oblast
23 August 2023: late August is departing cloudberry and arriving cranberry. In Leningrad Oblast cranberry picking starts at the end of August; better to begin closer to mid-September. Names Priozersky, Vsevolozhsky, Kirovsky, Volosovsky, Tosnensky, and Luzhsky districts. No end month. Cloudberry in the same text is already leaving — not a cloudberry calendar. Lingonberry is not described in this slug.
