North Russia Places to Visit

Wooden buildings on the island of Petrozavodsk - simple but steady . In the ice-free time you can ferry across Lake Onega with the hydrofoil "Raketa" for a day's trip to Kischi. Masterpieces of Russian ...

The 200-year golden era of the city lasted until the end of the 17th Jhs. The view from the hill on the same river on the Kremlin can imagine the former glory. As a river port city of Vologda was the ...

Once a hermitage, then one of Russia's richest monasteries, Gulag under Stalin and today a world heritage sight by the White Sea. The largest of six islands in the White Sea is becoming a tourist desti...

Until the founding of St. Petersburg early 18th Jhs. was Novgorod, the "new city", Russia's main commercial center - 600 years. According to 1136 was the "Great Lord Novgorod" a powerful Bojarenrepubl...