A great country with deeply rooted roots and a great cultural heritage, is famous for its beauty and is the pride of its people. Russia - the largest world power, whose population exceeded 143 million people. Undoubtedly, the country has something to see and what to please the eye. We represent the top 10 rating, which includes the most beautiful cities in Russia. They are obligatory to visit both our fellow citizens and tourists from all over the world.
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Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don is a city of military glory, the largest administrative center of the south of the Russian Federation. The location on the coastal plain gives Rostov a peculiar color. The variety of religious buildings is a distinguishing feature of one of the ten most beautiful cities in a large country. There are more than 40 Orthodox churches, the Cathedral Mosque, a soldier's synagogue and other religious objects. Rostov-on-Don is rich in various architectural objects, monuments of archeology and military glory. In the city there are about four hundred plaques.
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Sochi
Sochi is our pride, the Olympic pearl, known all over the world thanks to the victory of our national team, which won gold in 2014.A mild climate, elegant not man-made landscapes, location on the Black Sea coast attract an endless stream of people wishing to visit one of the ten most beautiful cities in our country - Russia. Olympic facilities, Orthodox chapels and churches, museums, circus and the oceanarium are just a few of the interesting places in which will find a lot of entertaining, age-varying categories of compatriots and visitors from other countries. Sochi is good at any time of the year, there are favorable conditions for both summer holidays, and for sports and active recreation in the winter.
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Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod is divided by the river into two parts - the lower and upper. The city is especially beautiful in summer because of the abundance of vegetation in the gardens and park areas, which pleases the eye and serves for rest of townspeople and tourists. Lower - this is how it is most often called in everyday speech - has value as a historically important element in the development of the state. Squares and embankments, theaters and monuments attract attention and create a unique look of the city. Nizhny Novgorod is included in the register of the most beautiful Russian cities, its place - in the top ten due to the abundance of architectural masterpieces and historical and cultural heritage.
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Yekaterinburg
In the Urals region is located Ekaterinburg( formerly Sverdlovsk) - the most important industrial city, transport hub and metallurgical base of the country. The area of 1905, the Rastorguev-Kharitonov Manor, the Ascension Church, the Temple-on-the-Krovi, the Sevastyanov House are the most important items in the guide to the old city, which has an inescapable mystery and magnetism. Ekaterinburg does not just take a place in the top ten Russian cities, considered the most beautiful - it is very harmoniously intertwined with the classicism, preserved for our and future generations.
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Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest administrative center, the third largest city in the country, known for its Akademgorodok. A huge zoo, a visit which is possible throughout the year, is a favorite place for relaxation and walks of both citizens and visitors. The largest Russian theater is in this city and is its symbol - the Opera and Ballet Theater, the first performance in which took place in 1945.In addition to the new buildings, the city, which is included in the top ten most beautiful in the country, has preserved architectural monuments of the past centuries on both sides of the Ob, dividing the city into two parts.
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Astrakhan
The Caspian capital - Astrakhan is called the Russian southern outpost, which is located on the islands in the upper Volga. The Astrakhan Kremlin, the eighty-meter high bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Cathedral of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir are the main pearls of the city, which is included in the top 10 of Russia's most beautiful cities.
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Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is the Russian top 10 most beautiful cities, the westernmost point on the map of our country, which is the administrative center of the Kaliningrad region. The former Koenigsberg is a city of parks, libraries and museums, in which forts and bridges have been preserved. Mercilessly destroyed during the war, he still retained the particles of the historic center, over the restoration and reconstruction of many objects had to work a decade. The city has a cultural and religious center, located in the restored Cathedral.
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Kazan
Kazan is a port on the Volga, the capital of Tatarstan, bisected by the river Kazanka. The city, whose age has passed for one thousand years, is known by many as one of the most beautiful in Russia, it stands in third place in the top ten rating. The city is actively developing, being an educational, scientific, sports and cultural center of the country with a population of more than one million people. Kazan often becomes a platform for international competitions and festivals, high-level sports competitions. The main attraction of Kazan is the majestic Kazan Kremlin, which in 2000 became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Moscow
Moscow. The main city, the capital, majestic and disobedient, repeatedly rose from the ashes. Undoubtedly, deserved the second place in our rating of the most beautiful cities in Russia. Everyone knows the main Red Square of our country and the Kremlin;St. Basil's Cathedral and Spassky Tower. Walking along the cobblestones of the Red Square is a great honor and pride of every Russian, the view from the Vorobyovy Mountains to the breathtaking panorama of the capital leaves a deep delight. Moscow has many historical secrets;its architecture, museums, monuments and monuments, parks, churches and cathedrals are attracted by their unchartedness, forcing to return again to this city.
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Saint-Petersburg
A strict and elegant, unforgettable and romantic city on the Neva, St. Petersburg is the most beautiful city in Russia. The champion of visiting tourists and the favorite of the vast majority of people, Peter is rightfully so popular. The Hermitage, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, the Savior on the Spilled Blood, St. Isaac's and Kazan's cathedrals are worthy of attention and admiration. Theater premieres, walks through canals, fountains, a ceremonial and a curb, drawbridges over the Neva, white nights and Chizhik-Pyzhik - all this is Peter, and it's with nothing to confuse and compare!
