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Russky Island
A fully militarised island for most of the past 150 years, this big island just offshore, which only opened to foreigners in the early 2000s, has been reinvented as a business and academic zone (as home to the sprawling – and off-limits to visitors – Far Eastern Federal University
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Academy of Arts Museum
Two 3500-year-old sphinxes guard the entrance of the Russian Academy of Arts, and art lovers should not bypass the museum of this time-tested institution, which contains works by students and faculty since the academy’s founding in 1857. This is the original location of the academy
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Centre for Tuvan Culture
The attractive two-storey timber building of the Centre for Tuvan Culture was founded in 2012 by legendary Tuvan musician Kongar-ool Ondar who was its first director until his untimely death in 2013. The government-funded institution brings together all of Tuva’s ensembles, the ama
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Volkonsky House
The duck-egg-blue and white home of Decembrist Count Sergei Volkonsky, whose wife Maria Volkonskaya cuts the main figure in Christine Sutherland’s unputdownable book The Princess of Siberia, is a small mansion set in a scruffy courtyard with stables, a barn and servant quarters. Re
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Palace Square
This vast expanse is simply one of the most striking squares in the world, still redolent of imperial grandeur almost a century after the end of the Romanov dynasty. For the most amazing first impression, walk from Nevsky pr, up Bolshaya Morskaya ul and under the triumphal arch.In
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Permafrost Kingdom
Yakutsk’s quirkiest attraction allows you to experience the regions famously frosty climes even at the height of the sweltering summer. At Permafrost Kingdom two neon-lit tunnels burrowed into a permanently frozen hill 13km west of Yakutsk’s centre have been filled with dozens of f
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Street Art Museum
At the time of research, the workers at the laminated plastics factory SLOPAST, in the industrial zone of Okhta, a 20 minute bus ride east of Ploshchad Lenina, were the first, fortunate audience for what is shaping up to be one of Russias contemporary art highlights. The Street Art
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Peterhof
It’s a tough call, but the gilded fountains and gardens of Peterhof give it a slight edge over St Petersburg’s other suburban palace. Hugging the Gulf of Finland, 29km west of St Petersburg, this ‘Russian Versailles’ is a far cry from the original cabin Peter the Great had built he
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Spasskoe
Surrounded by beautiful countryside, Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, 65km north of Oryol, is the family estate of Ivan Turgenev (1818–83), where the 19th-century novelist completed his most famous book, Fathers and Sons .The estate was originally given to the Turgenev family by Ivan the Terri
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Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
Tourists and pilgrims all flock to Bogolyubovo, just 12km northeast of Vladimir – the reason being a small 12th-century church standing amid a flower-covered floodplain.The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl is the golden standard of Russian architecture. Apart from ideal propo
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Kurortny Park
Many of Kislovodsks walking trails intersperse the hills, ponds and forests of this huge park, which is among the largest in Europe. The park ascends southeast from a plaza behind the semicircular colonnade in the town centre to the peak of Mt Maloe Sedlo (Little Saddle; 1376m). Th
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Old Believers’ Community
One of Russia’s most atmospheric religious centres is the Old Believers’ Community, located at Rogozhskoe, 3km east of Taganskaya pl. The Old Believers split from the main Russian Orthodox Church in 1653, when they refused to accept certain reforms. They have maintained the old for
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Varota Sartikpayev Gorge
The tourist action in Chemal revolves around this spectacular canyon near the confluence of the Katun and Chemal rivers. The area occupies an important place in Altai mythology – the white pieces of cloth tied to trees here and elsewhere in the region are part of the Altai people’s
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Grandfather Frost’s Estate
Supposedly Father Frost’s forest-bound home, this low-budget theme park for Russian kids is a festival of kitsch. costumed staff somehow manage to keep a remarkably straight face as they play along with the farcical premise. Visits start with a forest stroll through the Tropa Skazo
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Borodino Field
The entire battlefield – more than 100 sq km – is now part of the Borodino Field Museum-Preserve , basically vast fields dotted with dozens of memorials to specific divisions and generals (most erected at the centenary of the battle in 1912). The hilltop monument about 400m in fron
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New Holland
This triangular island has been closed to the public for the majority of the last three centuries, and its structures appear to be little more than ruins at present. Its fortunes are slowly changing, however, and it has been taken over by the city authorities who are slowly transfo
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Annunciation Cathedral
The attractive Annunciation Cathedral, built on on the foundations of a razed eight-minaret mosque, was designed by Postnik Yakovlev, who was also responsible for St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.
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Kirillov
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Kirillov-Belozersky Monastery in the small lakeside town of Kirillov, 130km northwest of Vologda was the largest monastery in northern Russia and one of the most powerful in the country.Founded in 1397 by a monk from Moscow, the monastery grew fr
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Art Muzeon & Krymskaya Naberezhnaya
Now fully revamped and merged with the wonderfully reconstructed Krymskaya Naberezhnaya embankment, is this motley collection of (mostly kitschy) sculpture and monuments to Soviet idols (Stalin, Sverdlov, a selection of Lenins and Brezhnevs) that were ripped from their pedestals in
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Pushkin Fine Arts Museum Main Building
Moscow’s premier foreign-art museum displays a broad range of European works. The main building is the original location of the museum, which opened in 1912 as the museum of Moscow University. The highlight of the museum are the Dutch masterpieces from the 17th century. Located in
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