Russia Places to Visit

Russia in a nutshell. Bigger, uglier, messier, and livelier than St. Pete, Moscow is classic Russia – a mix of nouveaux riches in sports cars and street hustlers looking for wallets. For starters, make...

In summer people meet for flirting on the Volga River Promenade. The carmaker Lada called one of his models "Samara" and made the city (1.2 million inhabitants.) Is internationally famous. These vehicle...

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 ...

Perm (1 million inhabitants.) Is the easternmost major city in Europe and a major transport hub on the way to Siberia. The town was founded 1723 as a workers' settlement of a copper foundry founded. I...

Only natural landscape by the Caspian Sea . Especially nature lovers, ornithologists, anglers and hunters enjoy a trip to the Volga Delta. Two boat tours can be recommended in particular: An excursion l...

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...

Novosibirsk is a young city. The town was born when the 1893 Trans-Siberian railway bridge over the Ob River was built. Until 1924 was called the city Nowonikolajewsk - after the last tsar. Since the ...