Russian Federation
Russia is located in the Eastern part of Europe and Northern part of Asia. It is the largest country in the world in terms of area.
There are many places of tourist and cultural interest in Russia:
- over 100 preserves and national parks
- the Volga, Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Amur rivers, Baikal lake, Black sea resorts, the peaks of Caucasus mountains and Caucasian Mineralnye Vody resorts, Teletskoe lake in Altai mountains, geysers and volcanoes of Kamchatka
- in Moscow: the Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum, Armory, Vasily the Blessed Cathedral, Tretyakov Arts Gallery, Borodino Panorama Memorial, Andrey Rublyov Museum, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Kuskovo, Kolomenskoye, Ostankino, Tsaritsino, Arkhangelskoye Estate Museums
- in Saint-Petersburg: the Hermitage, Russian Arts Museum, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Peterhoff, Pavlovsk, Tsar Selo (Pushkin), Gatchina Palace and Garden Ensembles
- ancient Russian towns of the Golden Ring: Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Suzdal, Vladimir, Sergiev Posad, Yuriev
- Historic and Architectural Museum preserve in Smolensk
- the Kremlin and Ivan the Terrible Palace in Vologda
- Kizhi wooden Architectural Museum
- the Kremlin and Historical Monuments of Veliky Novgorod
- Solovetsky Monastery on the White sea
- Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery and Pushkinsky Gory Museum preserve in Pskov
- the Kremlin in Kazan
- Historical and Architectural Museum preserve in Tobolsk
- Stalingrad Battle Panorama-Museum (1942) in Volgograd
Events and festivals
There are many places of tourist and cultural interest in Moscow:
Curious Facts about Russia and Moscow
History of the Russian flag
Moscow Airports
The Moscow State University (MSU)
The Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
The Moscow Kremlin
The Hotel "Russia"
Church of the Christ the Saviour
Church of the St.Tatiana the Martyr
Arbat Street
Tverskaya Street
Parks of Moscow
The Annual Summer Ballet Festval |