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Red Square/Kremlin Moscow
161 Reviews The 70 m (230 ft) high Saviour Tower is the most magnificent of the Kremlin towers, the very symbol and emblem of Moscow. From time immemorial it has been the principal entrance to the Kremlin. The...
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Canals and Rivers Saint Petersburg
38 Reviews Why not have a boat trip along the city canals and rivers, which will allow you to see the buildings from different angles and to enjoy the city sites - the splendid samples of the old Russian...
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Battle of Stallingrad Volgograd
13 Reviews The main statue of the complex is Mother Homeland Statue. It is situated on the so name Point 102 (Mamaev Kurgan is 102 meters high). The statue is 85 meters high (the figure 52 meters and the sword...
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Streets of Moscow Moscow
42 Reviews The wide street Kutuzovskiy Prospekt used to be a prestigious residential area for very important people of the Soviet Union. The building at number 26 was known as the Politbuero block, where...
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Museums Saint Petersburg
26 Reviews Hermitage Museum - I did the cruise ship visit to St Petersburg last month. We visted Catherine's Palace in Pushkin first in the morning so we arrived to the Hermitage in the afternoon. The cruise...
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The Volga Embankment Volgograd
5 Reviews Volgograd is great at May. It is bright, green and clean. Unfortunately internet could not transmit smells of spring flowers and blooming trees. Chestnuts, lilacs and bird cherry trees - a must...
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Monuments & Buildings Moscow
43 Reviews Yury Nikulin was the great movie artist and clown in soviet time. He was like a a breath of fresh air... "I always believed that those circus people who compel others to burst out laughing are the...
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Personal Observations Saint Petersburg
46 Reviews St. Petersburg is a wonderful city, but I suggest that you go there either with a group, or go on your own if you know Russian. There are no English signs and it is really difficult to move around if...
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General impressions Moscow
73 Reviews Moscow is well worth seeing by night. So a stroll through the city centre of Moscow in darkness is highly recommended. Not only the illuminated red stars on the top of the Kremlin Towers look...
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Cathedrals and Churches Saint Petersburg
57 Reviews One of impressive buildings of Saint Petersburg is Isakievsky Cathedral. It is well seen from Neva River and is situated not far from the monument to Peter I (the Copper rider). In XVIII century on...
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Other places to see Moscow
44 Reviews The nearest vicinities of the Red Square, including Manezhnaya Square are the places most attended by Muscovites for the last four centuries. In XV century in the old Moscow here lived...
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Monuments Saint Petersburg
22 Reviews Our first stop where we got out to take pictures was along the river at what the guide said were lighthouses (there were two) but which the travel literature called Rostrums. Apparently several times...
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Moscow Metro Moscow
18 Reviews Moscow's metro was inaugurated in 1935 and since then the network grew to 11 lines and covers a distance of about 300 km. Many of the stations from Soviet times are fine examples of socialist realism...
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St.Peter and St.Paul's Fortress Saint Petersburg
15 Reviews The church in the St. Peter and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost) is where all the tsars and their wives are buried although what structures that show in the church are not really the tombs...
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Cathedrals & Monasteries Moscow
40 Reviews This impressive structure isn't that old. Rumor has it that it used to be a very nice swimming pool until just a few years ago. The interior is extremely well decorated, and the crypt houses quite a...
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Weather Saint Petersburg
8 Reviews St. Petersburg gets all four seasons, sometimes a bit unpredictably. The long days of white nights in June do not mean it will be always warm, carry a sweater and umbrella! It can rain most any time...
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Parks/Estates Moscow
13 Reviews The park was completed in 1995 to celebrate the 50-th anniversary of the Soviet Union's World War Two victory. The park itself is laid out around a grand fountain-lined axis with a huge white...
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Architecture Saint Petersburg
40 Reviews St. Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, so it celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2003. The tsars employed the best architects and artists from Western Europe to build St....
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Parks and Squares Saint Petersburg
25 Reviews In the northern part of the park there are a lot of sculptures, it is real open air museum. I heard that almost a half of it is originals of XIX century. Besides, there is a monument to the famous...
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Nevsky Avenue Saint Petersburg
10 Reviews I spent almost a whole day sightseeing along St. Petersburg's main avenue Nevsky Prospekt. It leads from the Admirality in the west via Moskow Railway Station to the Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery in...
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Bridges Saint Petersburg
13 Reviews Troizky Bridge was open in 1903, to 200 years anniversary of the city. It is 500 meters long. The bridge is a part of the ensemble of buildings and bridges of Neva River area in front of Hermitage...
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Hermitage Saint Petersburg
27 Reviews Hermatage, Peterhof, Catherine Palace. St Petrsburg was all that I expected and more. We only had 2 very long and wonderful days there on our Baltic Cruise but I was so impressed with it. Our trips...
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City Environs Saint Petersburg
13 Reviews For the early birds: come to Peterhof before 9 a.m. and enter the Lower Garden free of charge. That is what I do. I love the nature and solitude. Have some seeds and feed the squirrels. They switch...
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Guidebooks Saint Petersburg
15 Reviews Most facilities in the center are portable toilets. Sometimes on Palace Square you will see toilet buses. Generally WC are all 10 rubles. For free in 5-star hotels, McDonalds and other restaurants....
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Visas and Documents Saint Petersburg
5 Reviews We were on a Cruise ship, for one very long day in Port. We usually do our own thing, but this is one place where you can't. You either have to do a Ship's tour or a privately booked tour, otherwise...
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All Russian Visas require the following:Passport valid for 6 months beyone the return dateThree passport photos ((4cm by 4.5cm) full face photosA complete application form including entry and exit datesHandling feeVisa Support Letter by a business, Russian person or Hotel/Agency
The two main cities are warm from about mid may to early september, summer days in these cities are long- so long that at midsummer in St Petersburg theres no real darkness so you can people watch and chill out at cafes until 2 or 3am. Winter sees both cities frozen by December and only seeing about 5 hours of sunlight. Temperatures in the summer is about 25 degrees in Moscow and 22 in St Petes.
City with VT link and population in thousands as of 2005:1. Moscow - 10 126,4 (2003)2. Sankt-Peterburg - 4 661,2 (2003)3. Novosibirsk - 1 405,64. Yekaterinburg - 1 304,35. Nizhniy Novgorod - 1 289,56. Omsk - 1 142,87. Samara - 1 133,48. Kazan' - 1 110,09. Chelyabinsk - 1 095,110.Rostov-na-Donu - 1 058,011.Ufa - 1 036,0
One of the great things about the long train trips is that it gives you the chance to get to know the locals. Here are two guys that we shared a four person compartment with. Russians tend to want to chat on the long train trips, and thankfully I had kept up my Russian studies since university. Great fun, and Russians tend to be very open people, so you get to learn a lot about your travelling companions.
Ok, this is certainly NOT my favourite thing about Russia.But it's good to remember:If in Russia you have to register your visa with the local authorities in three working days and that in every town you stay. In case you're staying in hotel it's usually done there. If you're staying at friends etc you'll have to go to the PVU/OVIR, meaning lots of paper work and waiting. Should you have obtained the visa through a travel agency they should have a partner in Russia who will do this for you, charging about 30US$.The registration now will be stamped on your immigration card. DON'T LOOSE IT!!!
Russian visas are easy to obtain in the Baltic States.We used Kelvita travel agency in Vilnius to get our visas. Cost about $110 US, and everything was done for us within 24 hours.Kelvita is located within the main Vilnius train station.
Russia is not an expensive place to travel outside of the cities much. Backpacking is even cheaper to do also with hitchhiking in summer seasons. One company is Beetroot Bus which is alright I have heard. They have regular tours for the summer, look at their website to find the dates for leaving: BACKPACKING WITH BEETROOT: The website is really self explanatory I think even for someone who has never traveled in Russia and only dim idea about how to obtain a visa, etc. Check it out if backpacking is your style. I know a lot of people don´t like the "tour group" method but for first-timers who don´t know anyone in Russia or if going with a few friends, its a good idea to find a company that is somewhat internationally known.Also they have facts about how to get to Russia, about these new visa system, and some true information. You can download their brochure too for all dates.Some of the...
I prefer the places outside larger cities best--better than being in them, even though Moscow and St. Petersburg are main destination spots. Both have their attractions, St. Petersburg with many beautiful buildings and parks. Moscow has absolutely everything you could possibly want :-)Its the largest country in Europe and has the most people, and has many different ethnic groups and climates. Although I feel most people just think of Moscow when they think Russia, or a cold Siberian landscape but there's much, much more. I've visited Moscow and St. Petersburg, Yukhnov, Magadan, Vladivostok and Navominsk, and the places in between in getting to those cities. I visited first when I was a little boy with my parents, and when Ukraine was just another area inside the Soviet Union. 20 years later I returned to the "new" Russia where people like the freedom but still struggle with what having...
Most of you will need a visa to get into Russia. Some countries have special treaties with Russia which allow to visit Russia on a visa-free basis. To get a visa, you must apply to the Consulate Department of the Russian mission in you country.To get a visa, you need to submit at least the following documents:invitation from anyone in Russia;filled in questionnaire;three photos 4x5 cm;passport.It usually takes at least 5 days to get a single entry visa and at least 14 days for a multiple one. After you arrive in Russia, you must get registered according to the 'Rules for foreign citizens'stay in Russia' (a very boring but useful document). In the plane you will be given an immigration card, which you will have to keep until exit. You get registered within 3 days after you arrive (not counting holidays and weekends), otherwise you will get in trouble. The hotels usually do the...
Au niveau officiel la France a exprimé à plusieurs reprises sa solidarité avec la Russie après la tragédie de Beslan. Le 20 octobre l’Ambassade de France et l’association « L’Enfance pour la vie » ont offert aux enfants de Beslan soignés dans les hôpitaux de Moscou une petite fête. Les élèves du Lycée français de Moscou avaient également été conviés à cette fête. Un spectacle a été organisé pour les enfants, auquel ont participé de jeunes musiciens prodiges de Russie, l’ensemble artistique Kolkhidari (Géorgie), l’ensemble de danse du centre culturel et éducatif Namous (Daguestan) et le théâtre du costume historique Nathalie. Ce spectacle a été précédé d’une représentation d’artistes de cirque fançais qui se produisent actuellement à Moscou puis suivi d’un goûter qui a réuni tous les enfants, les artistes et élèves du Lycée français. Le goûter et la représentation de cirque ont été...
Marriott Moscow Royal Moscow
6 Reviews and 146 Opinions The hotel has a great location, all the central attractions are very close. But the hotel is not...
Grand Hotel Europe Saint Petersburg
11 Reviews and 212 Opinions I wish I could have described my stay here, but I only passed by almost every night. The building is...
Hotel Mirage Kazan'
3 Reviews and 15 Opinions I have no idea about this hotel before I check in, neither about its location, nor its rating. I...
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Q: There are sereval satellite towns near by Moscow: Susdal, Yaroslaval, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir and may be else. - did anybody try...
A: Don't know about Nanotrip but have done a Golden Ring tour and can thoroughly recommend it. We went to Vladimir, Suzdal', Ples, Kostroma, Yaroslavl', Rostov Velikiy, ,...
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