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Categories: Achchen Lagoon
Achen Lagoon is located on the far eastern part of Russia, and is considered an inland body of running water. Visitors enjoy observing an abundance of bird life and spotting out the common puffins, horned puffins, and least auklets found near the lag...
Categories: Achen Lagoon
Categories: Alexandria Land
Categories: Anastasiya Bay
Arkhangelsk, is situated on the banks of the Northern Dvina, not far from the place where it flows into the White Sea. Founded in 1584 by Ivan the Terrible, the city has become a large cultural center of the North. Guests can visit any of a number of...
Categories: Arkhangel'sk Russia
Sitting at the delta of the Volga River in the Caspian Lowland is the city of Astrakhan. The city was founded in 1395 by Mongol leader Tamerlane, conquered by Tsar Ivan the Terrible in 1556, rebuilt and given industrial privileges by Catherine II in ...
Categories: Astrakhan
Atlasova is a small island that is made of just one gigantic volcano, called Alaid volcano island is named after Vladimir Atlasov, a 17th century Russian explorer who incorporated the nearby Kamchatka Peninsula into Russia. It is essentially the cone...
Categories: Atlasova Island
Categories: Bogoslaf Island
Categories: Bogoslov Island
Categories: Bukhta Anastasii
Categories: Bukhta Lavrova
Categories: Bukhta Natalii
Categories: Bukhta Petra
Categories: Bukhta Preobrazheniya
Categories: Bukhta Yuzhnaya Glubokaya
Categories: Cape Chelyuskin
Categories: Cape Kuyveveem
Cape Navarin is located northwest of the Bering Sea. It boasts of abundant seabird colonies. Cape Navarin is an excellent destination for wildlife sightings. Visitors can spot the Pacific walrus, spotted seals, humbacks, belugas, gray whales, and man...
Categories: Cape Navarin
Categories: Cape Severo-Zapadnyi
Categories: Cetate
Chapoma is a village located on the Kola Peninsula northwest of Russia and part of the Mumansk Oblast, a federal subject of Russia. The surrounding areas were explored in the 12th century by the Saami people who traded fur and herded sheep. Many earl...
Categories: Chapoma Village
Categories: Chegitum
Categories: Chegitun
Categories: Chukotka
Dezhneva Bay (Dezhnev Bay) is a bay located in the Bering Sea, and a port in Russia.
Categories: Dezhneva Bay
Categories: Dmitriy Laptev Strait
Categories: Dudinka
Categories: Dvorovaya Bay
Categories: Fedora Bay
Franz Josef Land is an archipelago located in the far north of the Russian Federation. The Land is situated in the Arctic Ocean to the north from Novaya Zemlya and to the east from Spitsbergen (Svalbard), and administratively it belongs to Arkhangels...
Categories: Franz Josef Land
Categories: Gabriela Bay
Categories: Golden Ring
On the banks of the Sheksna River in Goritsy sits the remains of the Nunnery of the Resurrection. Goritsky is also a great example of Russian rural life.
Categories: Goritsy
Categories: Great Arctic State Nature Reserve
Categories: Inchoun
Categories: Iona Island
Categories: Iony Island
Irkutsk is located 60km East of the world famous Lake Baikal. It is administrative centre of Irkutsk oblast (province) in the east-central Russia. The city lies along the Angara River at its confluence with the Irkut River. More than 750,000 people l...
Categories: Irkutsk
This beautiful tiny village is nestled in a wonderful green countryside. Stroll through the village visiting local families, tasting local food or even go fishing off of the shore. A walk in the nearby woods will also certainly calm your traveling ...
Categories: Irma
Categories: Izvestiy Tsik Islands
Also known as Old Prussia, Kaliningrad sits between Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea. Under Germany, it was named Kyonigsberg however after WWII, the town was renamed Kaliningrad. The town is navigable via the Pregolya River. When in Kaliningrad...
Categories: Kaliningrad
The Kamchatka (Kamchata) Peninsula is truly one of Russia's most spectacular and diverse regions. The region is made up of shores dipping into the Pacific Ocean, rugged mountain ridges, and volcanoes with volcanic peaks. The underground heat radi...
Categories: Kamchatka Peninsula
Categories: Kamenistaya Bay
Categories: Kanin Peninsula White Sea
Kazan is one of Russia's beautiful port cities famous for museums, theaters, restaurants, and magnificent views. The city is also home to several architecturally beautiful buildings including government buildings, monasteries, mosques,...
Categories: Kazan
Categories: Ketoy
Categories: Khabarovsk
Categories: Kirillov
Kizhi Island is home to one of the first open-air museums in Russia. Developed in the late 1940’s, Kizhi’s architectural ensemble now boasts 74 monuments in the collection. Here, wooden building have been constructed to provide a glimpse of centuri...
Categories: Kizhi Island
Categories: Klyuchevaya River
Categories: Kola Peninsula
Categories: Kolyuchin Island
Categories: Koni Peninsula
Although Korsakov and the Sakhalin District owe their existence to the less-than-glamorous industries of fishing, coal and oil, the typically Russian cities of this peninsula have always managed to sneak in a little fun, even during the height of Com...
Categories: Korsakov
Categories: Koryak Coast
Most of the Kuril Islands are densely vegetated with dark coniferous forests, grasslands, and an alpine zone. The area is rich with beautiful bays and snow-capped volcanoes whose alpine grasslands and forests are home to a rich variety...
Categories: Kuril Islands
Categories: Kuyveyem
Categories: Kuzino
For the Russian people Lake Baikal is a natural treasure. Located in Siberia near the Mongolian border, and surrounded by mountains, forests and wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and breathtaking area of physical beauty. Baikal holds twenty percent o...
Categories: Lake Baikal
Lake Ladoga is the largest freshwater lake in Europe. Visitors can also visit a 14th-century monastery built on Valaam Island in the north of the lake. The lake is a perfect destination for fishing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, and sailing. &n...
Categories: Lake Ladoga
The area around the lake has been inhabited since the early Stone Age. Petroglyphs have been found along its banks. Sailing is a popular activity on the lake. The UNESCO World Heritage site of Kizhi Pogost lies on one of the islands in the north...
Categories: Lake Onega
lake Rybinsk is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Recreational opportunities include hunting in the surrounding forests, boating on the expansive Rybinsk Sea and fishing along the islands, channels and bays that form along the waterway....
Categories: Lake Rybinsk
Categories: Lavrentiya Bay
Categories: Lavrova Bay
Categories: Listvyanka
Categories: Lovyshki Islands
Categories: Magadan
Categories: Malminskie Islands
Mandroga is located on the river Svir, which connects the Onega and Ladoga lakes. This beautiful waterfront village has been constructed in the traditional Russian wooden architectural style. The village is known for the vodka museum. Traditional spi...
Categories: Mandroga (Mandrogi)
Categories: Mod Bay
Categories: Morzhevaya Bay
Categories: Morzhovets Island
Categories: Morzovaya Bay
Moscow is the capital of Russia and its political, scientific, historical, architectural and business centre, from which power and might of the Russian state developed. Moscow is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia. Nowhe...
Categories: Moscow
Life isn't easy in Murmansk. It's surrounded by tundra, pitch black for most of the winter, home to Russia's nuclear-powered ice-breakers and surrounded by municipal housing blocks. Little wonder that the town goes wild every March for the Festival o...
Categories: Murmansk Russia
Categories: Mys Dezhneva
Categories: Mys Ruddera
Categories: Natalia Bay
Categories: Neva River
Categories: New Siberian Islands
Categories: Nikel
Categories: Nikolskoe
Categories: Nikol'skoye
Nizhni Novogorod is among the largest and most urban cities in Russia. Although the city is known for its industrial prowess, it is also a historical and cultural center. Walking through the city you will find many old...
Categories: Nizhni Novogorod
Categories: Nokolsoye Village
Novaya Zemlya, is an archipelago in northwestern Russia, lying in the Arctic Ocean and separating the Barents and Kara seas.
Categories: Novaya Zemlya
Novgorod is known as "Russia's oldest city" and is located in northwest Russia, on the Volkhov River near the point where it leaves Lake Ilmen. Veliky Novgorod was a key point on the trade route that ran from the Baltic to the Mediterra...
Categories: Novgorod
This port city on the Black Sea is steeped in historical significance. In ancient times the city was a Greek colony specializing in grain trade and is mentioned the works of Strabo and Ptolemy. The city is fondly referred to by locals as the 'Hero Ci...
Categories: Novorossiysk Russia
Categories: Novosibirsk
Categories: October Revolution Island
Categories: Okhotsk
Categories: Olga Bay
An ancient city, Oryol, Russia, is known as the birthplace of 19th-century novelist and playwright Ivan Turgenev (author of Fathers and Sons and A Month in the Country) and 20th-century philosopher of culture and language Mikhail Bakhtin (author of R...
Categories: Orel
Categories: Ostrov Isachenko
Categories: Ostrov Uyedineniya
Categories: Ostrov Yttygran
Categories: Paramushiru Island
Categories: Pavel Bay
Categories: Penkigney Bay
Categories: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy
Categories: Peter the Great Bay
Categories: Petrov
Petrozavodsk is situated on Lake Onega, one of Europe’s largest lakes. Founded by Peter the Great in the early 1700’s, Petrozavodsk name is taken from “Petr” for Peter and “zavod” meaning ‘works’. Rich in iron ore, the area was developed for factorie...
Categories: Petrozavodsk
Categories: Pevek
Categories: Piltun Lagoon
Categories: Proliv Senyavina Hot Springs
Part of the Kuril Islands off the coast of Russia, this small island is known primarily for its birds and sea otters. You'll see common murres, cormorants, puffins and more.
Categories: Ptichi Island
Categories: Pyalitsa Village
Set on a plateau on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains and 330 mi/530 km southeast of Volgograd, Pyatigorsk is the center of the best-known spa area in Russia. It has some of the nation's finest and most spectacular scenery, which you can ...
Categories: Pyatigorsk
Rostov-on-Don's role in the economic development of land and water trade established it as a center of mercantile success, as early as its founding in 1749. Verdant trees line the roads, and the Don River glides through town, as read in such Russian ...
Categories: Rostov-on-Don
Experience all of Russia's historical and cultural sites from a leisurely standpoint: a cruise. You'll see ancient monasteries, dense forests, serene lakes, old churches, riverfront villages and such cities as St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kizhi and more.
Categories: Russia River Cruising
Categories: Russky Island
Categories: Saint Lawrence Bay
Categories: Sakhalin
Samara is one of the major economic, industrial and cultural centers in Russia. It is a city that heavily populated, it is currently reported 1,164,000 people reside in the Russian territory. Samara hosted the European Union-Russia Summit in May of 2...
Categories: Samara
Saratov is in the Volga region in Russia. The population in the city stands at about 840,000. There is a variety of attractions and places to visit in the city including the Saratov circus, Spaceman embankment and the Trinity church on Museum square.
Categories: Saratov
Categories: Sea of Okhotsk
Sem Islands are located on the northeast region of Russia, Just east of northern Finland. Sem Islands in Russia are supplied by the US military intelligence.
Categories: Sem Islands
Categories: Sem' Ostrovov
Categories: Severnaya Zemlya
The Shantar Islands are a group of protected islands located on the western shore of the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia. The biggest isla...
Categories: Shantar Islands
Categories: Shelikhov Bay Paramushiru Island
Uljanovsk (Ulyanovsk) is located in the mid-eastern demographic of Russia. It was first founded by Tsar Alexey in 1648 as Simbirsk and besieged in the autumn of 1670 by Stepan Razin’s army. This historically rich destination is abundant in muse...
Categories: Simbirsk/Uljanovsk
Categories: Smolensk
With the Caucasus Mountains as its backdrop, the Black Sea town of Sochi is the jewel of the Russian Riviera. Sand and pebble beaches stretch nearly 20 miles along the Black Sea coast. With its subtropical climate, warm seas and adjoining trendy reso...
Categories: Sochi
The Solovetsky Islands (often referred to as Solovki) are six islands located in the forbidding waters of the White Sea in northern Russia, just 165km from the Arctic Circle. Known for their scenic beauty but difficult to access even today, the islan...
Categories: Solovetsky Islands
Categories: Sortavala
Categories: Srednego Island
Founded by Peter I in 1703, this beautiful city became the designated capital of Imperial Russia from 1712 to 1914. St. Petersburg was a gateway to the West and a distinctly European metropolis with Baroque and neo-classical mansions. The second-lar...
Categories: St. Petersburg
Starocherkassk is located in southern Russia, along the banks of the Don River. The town has an Old Russian feel to it, and it holds a great deal of historical value to be discovered. There are many memorials and cultural point of interest in Staroch...
Categories: Starocherkassk
Categories: Stavropol
Categories: Stolbovoy Island
Svir River is in northeastern Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It provides a waterway between two of the largest lakes in the area, Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga in Europe.
Categories: Svir River
Svir Stroy is a charming village with a population of around 1000 residents. It is located in the northwestern region of Russia, along the Svir River and only 150 miles east of St. Petersburg. The small village is well known for its picturesque...
Categories: Svir Stroy
Categories: Svirstroy
Categories: Talan Island
Categories: Teriberka Bay
Categories: Tintikun Lagoon
Categories: Trans-Siberia Railway
Founded as an industrial center, Tula, Russia, has a number of sites worth a day trip from Moscow, 110 mi/180 km to the north. Visit the 500-year-old Kremlin, the History of Arms Museum (http://www.arms-museum.tula.ru) and the Imperial Small Arms Fac...
Categories: Tula
Categories: Tver
Categories: Tymlat
Categories: Tyuleniy Island
Categories: Uelen
Categories: Ulan Ude
Categories: Ushakov Island
Categories: Ushki Bay
Categories: Utholok Peninsula
Categories: Utkholok Peninsula Kamchatka
Categories: Uznaya Bay
Categories: Velikiye-Luki
Categories: Verkhoturov Island
Categories: Vize Island
Vladivostok is capital of the Maritime Territory, in southeastern Russia, on Golden Horn Bay, an inlet of the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Russia's major Pacific seaport, and the main base of their Pacific...
Categories: Vladivostok
River Cruising
Categories: Volga River
Formerly the city of Stalingrad, the historic city of Volgograd is located on the beautiful river Volga. Visitors will find fascinating WWII memorials, and cultural museums about Russian life.
Categories: Volgograd
Once, the riverbanks of Vytegra were made striking by the Intercession Church, a structure built in the traditional wooden style by Northern carpenters in 1706. The design in these churches was often slightly bizarre, and the Intercession had 24 glea...
Categories: Vytegra
Categories: White Lake
Categories: White Sea
Categories: Wrangel Island
Categories: Yamskie Islands
Once a place of sacred initiation rites, the steep peaks and volcanic vents make Yankicha Island a magical, mystical place. The caldera has formed a pristine valley of green whose centerpiece is the serene lagoon, nearly isolated from the sea beyond ...
Categories: Yankicha Island
Categories: Yekaterinburg
Categories: Yeyrineyskaya Bay
Categories: Yttygran Island
Categories: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Categories: Zarya Peninsula
Categories: Zavyalov Island
Categories: Zayatskiy Island
Categories: Zupanova River