Contents

Plan Your Trip

Welcome to Russia

Russia's Top 20

Need to Know

First Time Russia

What's New

Getting Your Visa

If You Like...

Month by Month

Itineraries

Great Train Journeys

Russian Adventures

Regions at a Glance

On The Road

Moscow

Moscow Highlights

Neighbourhoods at a Glance

Moscow Kremlin

St Basil's Cathedral

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

State Tretyakov Gallery Main Branch

Gorky Park

Sights

Activities

Tours

Festivals & Events

Sleeping

Eating

Drinking & Nightlife

Entertainment

Shopping

Country Estates

Istra

Borodino

Golden Ring

Golden Ring Highlights

Vladimir

Suzdal

Plyos

Kostroma

Yaroslavl

Rostov-Veliky

Pereslavl-Zalessky

Sergiev Posad

St Petersburg

St Petersburg Highlights

Neighbourhoods at a Glance

The Hermitage

Peter & Paul Fortress

Russian Museum

St Isaac's Cathedral

Sights

Activities

Tours

Festivals & Events

Sleeping

Eating

Drinking & Nightlife

Entertainment

Shopping

Peterhof

Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo)

Pavlovsk

Gatchina

Kronshtadt

Leningrad Region

Western European Russia

Tula

Yelets

Voronezh

Oryol

Smolensk

Tver

Torzhok

Veliky Novgorod

Staraya Russa

Pskov

Stary Izborsk

Pechory

Kaliningrad Region

Kaliningrad

Yantarny

Svetlogorsk

Zelenogradsk

Kurshskaya Kosa

Northern European Russia

Northern European Russia Highlights

Republic of Karelia

White Sea

Solovetsky Islands

Arkhangelsk

Kola Peninsula

Murmansk

Vologda

Kargopol

Kenozero National Park

Volga Region

Nizhny Novgorod

Kazan

Ulyanovsk

Samara

Samara Bend

Tolyatti

Saratov

Volgograd

Astrakhan

Elista

Russian Caucasus

Rostov-on-Don

Starocherkasskaya

Krasnodar

Sochi

Adler

Krasnaya Polyana

Mineralnye Vody

Pyatigorsk

Kislovodsk

Dombay & Teberda

Arkhyz

Nalchik

Elbrus Area

The Urals

Perm

Kungur

Yekaterinburg

Around Yekaterinburg

Ufa

Ufa to Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk

Western Siberia

Tyumen

Tobolsk

Omsk

Novosibirsk

Tomsk

Novokuznetsk

Sheregesh

Altai

Eastern Siberia

Krasnoyarsk

Divnogorsk & Ovsyanka

Abakan

Around Abakan

Kyzyl

Around Kyzyl

Western Tuva

Kyzyl to Mongolian Border

Tayshet

Bratsk

Severobaikalsk

Around Severobaikalsk

Irkutsk

Listvyanka

Port Baikal

Olkhon Island

Slyudyanka

Arshan & Tunka Valley

Eastern Baikal

Ulan-Ude

Around Ulan-Ude

Russian Far East

Blagoveshchensk

Birobidzhan

Khabarovsk

Vladivostok

Tynda

Komsomolsk-na-Amure

Yakutsk

Magadan

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Around Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky

Elsewhere in Kamchatka

Valley of the Geysers

Lake Kurilskoe

Mt Mutnovskaya

Esso

Understand

Understand Russia

Russia Today

History

Russian People

Religion

Performing Arts & Music

Literature & Cinema

Architecture & Visual Art

Food & Drink

Landscape & Wildlife