Russia Country

Russia, the world’s most astronomically immense nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, plus the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by legendary Russian bellwether Peter the Great, features the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the Hermitage Museum’s art accumulation.

Tourism in Russia has optically discerned rapid magnification since the tardy Soviet times, first domestic tourism and then international tourism, fueled by the affluent cultural heritage and great natural variety of the country. Major tourist routes in Russia include a peregrination around the Golden Ring of archaic cities, cruises on the sizably voluminous rivers like the Volga, and long journeys on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. In 2013, Russia was visited by 28.4 million tourists, it is the ninth most visited country in the world and the seventh most visited in Europe.

The most visited destinations in Russia are Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the current and the former capitals of the country. Apperceived as World Cities, they feature such world-renowned museums as Tretyakov Gallery and Hermitage, famous theaters like Bolshoi and Mariinsky, ornate churches like Saint Basil's Cathedral, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Church of the Savior on Blood, impressive fortifications like Moscow Kremlin and Peter and Paul Fortress, resplendent squares and streets like Red Square, Palace Square, Tverskaya Street and Nevsky Prospect.
Moscow exhibits the Soviet architecture at its best, along with modern skyscrapers, while St Petersburg, nicknamed Venice of the North, boasts of its classical architecture, many rivers, channels and bridges.

Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, shows a commix of Christian Russian and Muslim Tatar cultures. The city has registered a brand The Third Capital of Russia, though a number of other major cities vie for this status, including Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.

The warm subtropical Ebony Sea coast of Russia is the site for a number of popular sea resorts, like Sochi, the follow-up host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Astronomically immense artificial Federation Island in the sea near the Sochi of Khostinsky City District is shaped like the Russian Federation and host hotels and offices. The mountains of the Northern Caucasus contain popular ski resorts, including Dombay. The most famous natural destination in Russia is Lake Baikal, the Blue Ocular perceiver of Siberia. This unique lake, oldest and deepest in the world has crystal-clean waters and is circumvented by taiga-covered mountains. Other popular natural destinations include Kamchatka with its volcanoes and geysers, Karelia with its lakes and granite rocks, the niveous Altai Mountains, and the wild steppes of Tyva.