One-day itineraries to discover the best of every city, airport by airport.
Capital of Tatarstan, Kazan preserves in its UNESCO-listed Kremlin a mosque and Orthodox cathedral standing side by side.The center, with the...
Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as a 'window on Europe,' St. Petersburg was Russia's imperial capital for over two centuries and still retains...
On the banks of the Amur River, which marks the border with China, Khabarovsk remains the main cultural center of Russia's Far East.The center,...
Not far from the famous Prokhorovka battlefield, site in 1943 of one of history's most massive tank clashes, Belgorod hosts a diorama museum...
The eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway over nine thousand kilometres from Moscow, Vladivostok overlooks the Pacific from a port that...
Built on permafrost terrain, Yakutsk remains the most populous city with over one hundred thousand inhabitants on the coldest planet Earth.A car...
Russia's only subtropical city, Sochi hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics thanks to proximity between Black Sea beaches and snow-capped Caucasus...
At the confluence of the Irtysh and Om rivers in western Siberia, Omsk holds the memory of the long imprisonment of writer Fëdor Dostoevsky.The...
Known as Stalingrad during the bloodiest battle of World War II, Volgograd today preserves on the Mamayev Kurgan hill one of the world's tallest...
On the banks of the Volga, Europe's longest river, Samara houses a secret underground bunker built for Stalin during World War II.The center,...
The world's largest city above the Arctic Circle, Murmansk remains an ice-free port year-round thanks to the Gulf Stream.The center, gateway to...
On the Tom River in remote western Siberia, Tomsk holds the oldest university in all of Siberia alongside a unique heritage of wooden...
Almost entirely rebuilt after the wars of the Nineties, Grozny today holds one of Europe's largest mosques.The center, rebuilt on wide avenues, is...
Capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa holds the largest equestrian statue in bronze in Russia and all of Europe.The center, with the...
Having grown from nothing around a railway bridge on the Trans-Siberian at the end of the 19th century, Novosibirsk is today Siberia's largest...
In 1918, in a house in Yekaterinburg, the family of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II was executed by the Bolsheviks, an event that symbolically...
Founded as a Cossack outpost in Siberia, Irkutsk remains the most convenient starting point for Lake Baikal, the deepest and one of the oldest...
Moscow in a day is explored starting from Red Square, the symbolic heart of the city, then passing by the Kremlin until reaching the elegant...
Once German Königsberg, separated from the rest of Russia by two European Union members, Kaliningrad retains a unique Prussian architectural...
Capital of Siberian Buryatia, Ulan-Udė preserves active Buddhist temples alongside the world's largest sculptured head of Lenin.The center, with...
On the Siberian Yenisei River, Krasnoyarsk preserves unique vertical rock formations within a protected nature reserve.A car remains useful for...
