Russian Travel Guide

🚍 Travel Guide

Which Russian places are worth visiting to remember the journey for long? Which national dishes to taste in order to dare cook them by yourself? What souvenirs to get for friends apart from balalaika and ushanka-hat? These are probably the questions that linger in the mind of every tourist planning a trip to Russia.

Our Travel Guide will help find the answers!

🎭 Every year, Russia hosts interesting events, including the ones of international scale. Every season, there are colorful festivals and celebrations to every fancy: culinary, national and ethnic, sport, musical, extreme, literary, children's, etc. All you have to do is pick your own exciting event and take a journey!

🌄 Miracles of Russia

Most foreigners associate Russia with white-stone churches, little wooden houses, beautiful girls wearing kokoshnik head-bands and other exotic things of the kind. However, Russian culture has much closer connections with the West than it appears on the face of it. Just take a look at the fortifications of Königsberg (the locals keep calling Kaliningrad by this name) or the Scandinavian archaeological finds within the Rurikovo Gorodische or the rich collections of European art in the Pushkin Museum or the State Hermitage, and you will find out that this is true. Indeed, these have nothing to do with the habitual stereotypes. And this is a real wonder.

🍲 Unusual Russian Cuisine

Many believe that Russian cuisine is vodka and pancakes, caviar and pies, dumplings and borsch. Everything is very filling, high-calory, and most importantly — clichéd. This opinion has a reason, but we still try to break the stereotypes and show another Russian cuisine that is unusual, and at the same time nutritious and healthy.

🎨 Russia as a Center of Contemporary Art

Modern art, the phenomenon of contemporary art, begins with the Russian avant-garde. Malevich, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Rodchenko, and Vertov — it is impossible to imagine western art of the 20th century without them. The art revolution of the 1960s with its address to happenings, acts and performances also "sprouted" from the culture of stunts of the Futurists and OBERIU group members. However, the Iron Curtain cut off Russian artists from the world process for a long time. How is contemporary art presented in post-Soviet Russia and where you can see it?

👍 Russia’s Top 10 Places

#Top 1 and 2. Of course, the Kremlin and the Red Square are the must-see sites worth of taking your selfies there. However

#3. Generally speaking, while preparing yourself for making popular selfies in Russia you’d better learn to work at a large scale. The best-known one located at the Vorobyovy Gory. Recommend visiting the west disctrict with the skyscrappers of Moscow International Business Centre, also known as “Moscow City.”

#4. Unlike any other Russian city, Saint Petersburg may be taken for Europe

#5. Aurora

#6. Those who prefer refinement and fine arts to the macho attitude are welcome to take a selfie with an angel statue at the Palace (Dvortsovaya) Square in the very heart of Saint Petersburg.

#7. The Soviet sculptors knew how to fit their pieces into the appropriate scenery. Question: Do you know where the biggest Lenin’s statue is situated and how tall it is? Answer: On the bank of the Volga River in Volgograd.

#8. Next site on our top list is also related to the Soviet era. It seems like it was created especially for taking photos! Outskirts of Istra town, Moscow Region. Abandoned Marx generator or, as they call it, the Tesla coil.

#9. Other fantastic structures are created nowadays. Russky Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Vladivostok completed in 2012. It connects the mainland part of Vladivostok city with Russky Island in the Sea of Japan.

#10. In any case, Russia’s best wonders were created by nature and not by man. One of Russia’s most famous natural wonders are the Syenite Buttes in the Stolby Nature Sanctuary, near Krasnoyarsk, Central Siberia.