While many Western tourists enjoy a vacation spent in nature, Russians - and Russia itself - are still learning the pleasures of this kind of travel.
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The main landmark of the national park is undoubtedly Mount Alkhanay, one of the Buryat Buddhist shrines, with the Great Good Temple is at its foot.
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The largest national park in Russia is the Yugyd Va (Urals)
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The total area of the park is 1,891,701 hectares. Bodies of water account for 21,421 hectares of this territory
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The largest national park in Europe is the Vodlozersky.
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The park has one of the largest lakes in Northern Europe, Lake Vodlozero.
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The most westerly national park in the Russian Federation is the Curonian Spit in the Kaliningrad Region
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Located on the thin Curonian Spit that splits the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea, lies one of the strangest natural phenomena on Earth
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Known as the Dancing Forest by caretakers of Curonian Spit National Park and as the Drunken Forest, by locals, this unusual pine forest is made of trees of various shapes, most of them twisted in circles and spirals, along the ground.
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Russia’s first-ever national park is in Sochi.
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About 40 rivers and streams flow through the park into the Black Sea.
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The easternmost national park in Russia is the Alkhanay
