When arriving in any city for a day or two, you want to have time to see the maximum number of attractions and visit “cult” places. Ekaterinburg claims to be the most compact city with a population of one million, so you can fit the maximum number of objects into your weekend cultural program. Each […]
When planning your weekend or vacation, you don’t have to choose overseas countries and world resorts. Traveling through Russian cities is no less exciting, because it is an interesting and educational vacation that helps you better understand your home country. Why not go next time, for example, to Chelyabinsk?! This city from a small settlement
Balaklava is a settlement on the outskirts of Sevastopol. It amazingly combines the beauty of wild nature and the heritage of the historical past. At different times, Greeks, Romans, colonists from Genoa, Turks, English and Russians found refuge here. The first mentions of the Balaclava can be found in ancient literature. Homer, Pliny the Elder
Anapa is a city with a rich history, a variety of natural and man-made attractions. The name of the city, according to different versions and from different languages, is translated as “edge of the table” (the city visually resembles the ledge of a table), “mother’s cry” (there was once a slave market here), “two sisters”
Eight hours of flight from Moscow, seven days from there by train and here it is – a city on the banks of the Amur. Khabarovsk is not only the administrative capital of the Far Eastern Federal District, but also the heart of the region. By the way, the same one where Far Eastern hectares
Sometimes you really want to drop everything you’re doing and go somewhere warm and beautiful for the weekend. A couple of days may not be enough for a full-fledged trip abroad, but it is quite enough to visit one of the glorious southern cities of Russia. If you have firmly decided that you want to
Kamchatka was discovered more than three centuries ago by Russian Cossacks, but for most residents of Russia it remains a mysterious and inaccessible land to this day. At first, the journey from the European part of Russia to the peninsula took about a year. Few people dared to travel such a long distance. Now, thanks
In 2010, the Internet project “100 Wonders of Russia” was launched, which collected and systematized information about the most interesting and unusual sights of our country. Chukotka Whale Alley was included in this list and ranked 29th in it. Whale Alley is located on the small island of Itygran in the Bering Sea (on the
Sergiev Posad is located on the 70th kilometer of the Yaroslavl railway, 1.5 hours northeast of Moscow. Tourists and pilgrims from all over the world come here all year round to visit one of the main Orthodox shrines – the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. But you shouldn’t limit yourself to just a visit to the Lavra –
Why do tourists come to Moscow? To stroll along Red Square, visiting St. Basil’s Cathedral, the Historical Museum and the Mausoleum (the latter, which evokes extremely mixed emotions among Muscovites, especially attracts foreigners) and Old Arbat, the most famous pedestrian street of the city. To see the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, go to the