Russia is by no means a dangerous country to visit. On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of visits go without a hitch – assuming that you avoid such flashpoints as Chechnya and the Ukranian border. However, given that the Russian…
Go Russia Participation at ITB 2015 Travel Exhibition
Go Russia team successfully participated at ITB Berlin 2015 Travel Exhibition from 04 to 08 March 2015.
We are very happy to see that despite some political issues, there is a lot of interest for travelling to Russia.
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…