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Transbaikal diaries: Up and down the bear tracks

Transbaikal diaries: Up and down the bear tracks

Let a Siberian travel expert take you to the Kodar Mountains

Visiting the Evenks: Daily life in Eastern Siberia

Visiting the Evenks: Daily life in Eastern Siberia

How this indigenous people lives in the past, present and future

Tofalaria: How people and deer coexist in the Siberian taiga

Tofalaria: How people and deer coexist in the Siberian taiga

Stories of the Eastern Sayan indigenous peoples

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Nikola Lenivets, Kaluga Region

Farms and Festivals, Campfires and Churches: Russia's best Open-Air Parks

If you like to get your hands dirty, sleep under the stars, and explore...

Okunevo Village

7 unique Russian villages lost in the middle of nowhere

From the village lost in the world’s northernmost desert, to the...

False Accusations, Hard Labor, and Suppressed Voices

Learn more about one of the Soviet Union’s most unjust institutions:...

Solovetsky archipelago

The Ultimate Guide to Siberian Gulags and Soviet Exile Sites

Learn about this disturbing piece of Russian history through...

Sunrise over mountains at Krasnoyarsky Krai

Siberia's most thriving center, where urban and rural landscapes collide

Located on the Yenisei River, one of the world’s largest, Krasnoyarsk is a ...

Buddhist Temple in Chita

City of Exiles, the obscure side of Transbaikalia

On the long trip between Moscow and the Pacific Ocean, the Trans-Siberian...

Angarsk city centre

Siberian Route, wooden clock mechanisms and the most rare minerals

Angarsk is a very diverse and contradictory town. Its urban charm of...

Solovetsky Islands

Top 10 literary travel destinations to the country of Tolstoy and...

The labor camp on the Solovetsky islands, the village of Chernyshevsk,...

The 8 most awesome places to take a dramatic Selfie

Want to make all of your friends jealous? One pic from Russia will be...

Malaya Siya Caves

A Speleological Treasure in Southern Siberia

The Republic of Khakassia, located in southern Siberia, is a unique place. ...

From Baikal to Buddhism: A road trip through Buryatia

Welcome to the Buryat Republic—also called Buryatia—an autonomous region...

Tomsk has one of Siberia’s youngest populations

Riding the rails between the future and the past

Today, this city of half a million is one of Russia’s intellectual...

The Ergaki ridge

Escape from civilization to the backpacker's dream

The Ergaki ridge, the heart of the Western Sayan mountains is one of the...

The Lover’s Bridge

The bourgeois charm of Siberia's oil capital

A stop in Tyumen provides an interesting glimpse into how modern Russia’s...

The Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery Complex

Yeniseysk: Siberian baroque in stone and wood

In 2019, Yeniseysk, one of the oldest cities in Siberia, will celebrate...

Russian cities for foreign tourists: Expectations versus reality

Tobolsk Kremlin

Tobolsk: the last outpost on the edge of nowhere

Here you can imagine the sense of frontier spirit that lured early Russian ...

Dudinka is the northernmost international seaport in Russia

Dudinka: the Far North’s Northernmost Town

Dudinka, which lies almost 2,000 kilometers from the capital of...

Altai is sometimes called the Russian Shambhala

Splendid isolation: Discover Russia's nomadic peoples

Where can you learn the art of cheese making, reindeer husbandry, and...

St. Petersburg, Sennaya Square

Visit the first Russian revolutionaries' most notorious places of exile

A tour of the Siberian places of exile for Decembrists may be your trip of ...

Izba for ‘Russian-style’ vacations

The best (and the most bizarre) of Russia’s rentals

Check out the coziest and the most stylish pieds-à-terre available on the...

Lake Baikal in winter

The top 10 ultimate Russian adventures

There’s far more to Russia than borscht and ballet, so this month RBTH...