A stop on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway, Novosibirsk is perched on the banks of the Ob River, which features fountains that seem to float on its surface. You can learn about the city’s founding at the West Siberian Railway History Museum. Novosibirsk is renowned for its thriving arts scene, and the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is fondly known as the “Siberian Coliseum.” The Novosibirsk Zoo is beloved for its collection of animals and its preservation work with endangered species.
Mozhaysk (Russian: Можайск, IPA: [mɐˈʐajsk]) is a town and the administrative center of Mozhaysky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 110 kilometers (68 mi) to the west of Moscow, on the historic road leading to Smolensk and then to Poland. Population: 31,363 (2010 Census); 31,459 (2002 Census); 30,735 (1989 Census).
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
Discover the best top things to do in Vyborgsky District, Russia including Yacht Club Xenika, SUP Surfing Vyborg, SupSurf.Rent, Rent a boat in Vyborg, Wind Hunters Station, TriMira.
Arkhangelsk (Russian: Арха́нгельск, IPA: [ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk]), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the north of European Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea. The city spreads for over 40 kilometers (25 mi) along the banks of the river and numerous islands of its delta. Arkhangelsk was the chief seaport of medieval and early modern Russia until 1703. A 1,133-kilometer-long (704 mi) railway runs from Arkhangelsk to Moscow via Vologda and Yaroslavl, and air travel is served by the Talagi Airport and a smaller Vaskovo Airport. As of the 2010 Census, the city's population was 348,783, down from 356,051 recorded in the 2002 Census, and further down from 415,921 recorded in the 1989 Census.
Founded in the mid-17th century as a winter quarters for traders and tax collectors, Irkutsk came to prominence in the 1800s. Participants in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I were exiled to Siberia in droves, turning Irkutsk into their cultural center. Today, it’s one of Siberia’s biggest and most important cities, with over half a million people, many universities, many historic churches and museums, and beautiful Lake Baikal, just about an hour away by train.
Discover the best top things to do in Lower Volga, Russia including State Historical and Memorial Preserve The Battle of Stalingrad, Memorial Museum of Panfilov, Memorial-Historical Museum, Museum of Health Care History, Volga-Don Shipping Canal History Museum, K. Fedin's State Museum, Museum of Cultural History, N. Chernyshevskiy's Memorial Estate, Kamyshin Museum of History and Local Lore, State History Museum of Ust-Medveditskaya Cossacks and House Museum of Alexander Serafimovich.
Discover the best top things to do in Volga District, Russia including Mordovian Republican Fine Arts Museum S.D. Erzia, Berezniki History and Art Museum, Yurkovka Art Gallery, Provincial ARTgallery-M, FUTURO Gallery, Slava Zaitsev's Art Gallery and Studio, Art Gallery Vremena, Khrupkiye Mechty Gallery, Astrakhan Dogadina Art Gallery, The Penza Regional Art Gallery of K.A. Savitskiy.
Discover the best top things to do in Valday, Russia including Iver Svyatoozersky Monastery, Museum Bell Centre, Valdai Embankment, Church of Saint Catherine, Valday Museum of Local Lore, Museum of Bells, Valdai Lake, The Shaverma - Shaurma Column, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Valdai Eiffel Tower.
Yelizovo (Russian: Е́лизово) is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Avacha River 32 kilometers (20 mi) northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: 39,569 (2010 Census); 41,533 (2002 Census); 46,929 (1989 Census).
Discover the best top things to do in Karelian Isthmus, Russia including Temple of the Martyr Seraphim of Sarov, Historical-Cultural Center Varyazhskiy Dvor, Memorial Flower of Life, Fort Ino, Monument to the Vyborg Tram, Wish Tree, Smolyanoi Cape, Monrepos Park, Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum Preserve, Chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian, Temple of An Icon of the Kazan Mother of God.
Discover the best top things to do in North Caucasian District, Russia including Southern Zelenchuk Temple, Holy Trinity Spring, Aimani Kadyrova Mosque, Datun Church, Dormition of the Mother of God Temple, Kele-Numaz, Sangar Mosque, A.F. Rebrova Chapel, Mosque Gordost musulman Proroka Mukhameda, Middle Zelenchuk Temple.
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, Kaliningradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation that is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. As an oblast, its constitutional status is equal to each of the other 84 federal subjects. Its administrative center is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg. It is the only Baltic port in the Russian Federation that remains ice-free in winter. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 941,873.
Cheboksary (Russian: Чебоксары, IPA: [tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ]; Chuvash: Шупашкар, Šupaškar) is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River. Population: 453,721 (2010 Census); 440,621 (2002 Census); 419,592 (1989 Census).
Tula Oblast (Russian: Ту́льская о́бласть, Tulskaya oblast) is a top-level political division of European Russia (namely an oblast). Its present borders were set on 26 September 1937. The city of Tula is its administrative center. The oblast has an area of 25,700 square kilometers (9,900 sq mi) and, as of 2010, had a population of 1,553,925. Since 2 February 2016, the current governor of the oblast has been Alexey Dyumin.
Discover the best top things to do in Magadan Oblast, Russia including Dneprovsky Mine, Former Dalstroi MAnagement Building, Mask of Sorrow, Mammoth Sculpture, Vremya, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Memory Node Monument, Saint George Chapel, Monument to Eduard Berzin, Sculptural Composition of the Singer and Composer V. A. Kozina, Memorial to Vladimir Vysotsky.
Novosibirsk Oblast (Russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, Novosibirskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk. The population was 2,665,911 as of the 2010 Census.
The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н), or simply Dagestan (/ˌdæɡɪˈstæn/ or /ˌdæɡɪˈstɑːn/; Russian: Дагеста́н), is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea coast. Its government was dissolved in a major corruption investigation on 5 February 2018, and the region is currently under the direct control of the Russian government.
Moscow Oblast (Russian: Моско́вская о́бласть, tr. Moskovskaya oblast, IPA: [mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]), or Podmoskovye (Russian: Подмоско́вье, IPA: [pədmɐˈskovʲjə], literally "around/near Moscow"), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 7,095,120 (2010 Census) living in an area of 44,300 square kilometers (17,100 sq mi), it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and is the second most populous federal subject. The oblast has no official administrative center; its public authorities are located in Moscow and across other locations in the oblast.
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