Elabuga – is an ancient town located in the European part of Russia, near Kazan city, on the banks of the Kama River, surrounded by centuries-old forests, those that were praised in the paintings of the great Russian artist of…
Moscow region at the peak of its popularity among Russian tourists
More than 2.9 million of people visited museum of Moscow region last year. There are plenty of different sightseeing objects in Moscow region such as churches, monuments of military glory, architectural monuments and museums. According to the officials, Moscow-area museums…
Irkutsk and Lake Baikal
We continue publishing our customer comments about their holidays along the Trans-Siberian railway. At 11am we went to Ust Orda, a Buryat village about 70km north from Irkutsk. The Buryat people are the largest indigenous group in Siberia and the…
Yekaterinburg – Heart of the Ural Region
This is our first posting on the Trans-Siberian railway blog detailing some impressions of Go Russia travellers. Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 and developed as a fortress, gradually turning into the center of the Ural Region. It was here that…
Discover the Wonders of the Silk Road
For many, many years the wonder and mystery of silk was unknown to most of the world. It was not until the expansion of the Roman Empire that silk was introduced to the world at large. As the Romans conquered…