The lion's share of foreigners does not regard Russia as a place to visit, but in vain. The country clearly leads by the wonders of nature, does not lag behind most European countries in terms of architectural monuments, is the undisputed leader in the number of cultural heritage sites. We suggest to consider the tourist rating of the cities of Russia and personally to appreciate the wealth of one of the greatest empires.
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Barentsburg
This city can be put on both the first and the last place in the ranking of the leading tourist cities in Russia, depending on the personal preferences of each. Barentsburg offers extreme tourism for people with high incomes. Delivery of groups is carried out by icebreakers, including the legendary Yamal, or by air through Norway( visa registration is not required).This territory belongs to both Russia and Norway, and to the rest of the world.
Barentsburg is a city of miners, the fruit of the ambitions of the Communist Party. Here is the most northern bust of VI Lenin in the world. A lot of buildings are decorated with socialist mosaics. What is remarkable: there is a school, a polyclinic, a shop, a post office, the Internet. People never get sick with ARVI - viruses and microbes do not survive here because of low temperatures.
Prices - expensive. Barentsburg Hotel - a Soviet-style hotel with a decent repair inside offers double rooms from $ 130 / day. The price for a week tour( hotel, snowmobiles, meals, excursions) starts from 1,5 thousand US dollars per person, this price does not include the flight to / from Norway.
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Khuzhir
Here you can find shamans with iphone, rock, Baikal omul, the museum of local lore. NM Revyakina. The main thing is a unique landscape and nature. Special energetics. Tourists are landed both on foot and by private transport from ferries that arrive here with enviable regularity. Olkhon is the place where a person is best separated from the impetuous flow of urban life, stopping to comprehend and contemplate life. There are no placers of Michelin restaurants, there are almost no roads, there is no noise, there is little illumination. Many sincere people, nature, air and, most importantly, freedom.
In the vicinity of Khuzhir there are three hotels: a branded Baikal View with a swimming pool - from 5 thousand rubles, "Daryana Manor" with a bath - from 1,5 thousand and a camping hotel "Olkhon" with a shower, which works until 22:00 -from 3 thousand. ATV rental - 1 thousand rubles per hour. Shaman services - from 500 rubles to infinity. Khuzhir is the most expensive city, popular among foreign tourists.
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Vladivostok
In Vladivostok there are not a lot of attractions, there are no World Heritage sites. But. This is the final and / or the initial station of the Trans-Siberian Railway - a special-popular tourist turn of Russia among foreigners.
Separately, the city deserves to be in the rating of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia. Here you should visit: Popov Island - a unique untouched corner of nature with a marvelous landscape, the Golden Horn Bridge, a seaside safari park - the place where you can meet the rarest Amur tigers. Separately, attention should be focused on the developed restaurant culture, the Far Eastern cuisine, whose analogs do not exist. Vladivostok is easily recognized by the abundance of Japanese cars on the streets. This is the place where you should visit divers. A large number of underwater fauna and marine attractions are concentrated here.
Hostels - from 400 € / night. Hotels - from 2,5 thousand. Not the cheapest city in Russia.
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Nizhny Novgorod
One of the most important cultural, economic cities of Russia, where tourists from all over the world are flocking, who deserved the seventh place in the rating. Nizhny Novgorod was founded by Grand Duke Vladimir, Yuri Vsevolodovich, in 1221.And three hundred years later a stone Kremlin was built, which no one took for 500 years. Nizhny Novgorod is recognized as the largest city of Russian river tourism in the federal rating.
In the evenings, tourists flock to Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street, where there are attractions, musicians. The area is full of lights and fun, bars and restaurants are buzzing until the morning. In the afternoon guests create the historical architecture of the streets, fortifications, monasteries, full of eight hundred years of history.
Prices are available. For a double room in a decent hotel will have to pay from 2 thousand rubles. The hostel will cost 250 - 700 rubles / bed-place. The price for the entrance to the Kremlin is 150 rubles.
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Kazan
The capital of the Republic of Tatarstan attracts tourists with the ancient Russian architecture of fortification and merchant structures, Orthodox churches. The city took the third place in Europe and the eighth in the world by rating of the fastest growing tourist cities of Tripadvisor. The Astrakhan white-stone Kremlin is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Here you can try many kinds of fish from the Volga basin, which is prepared in any local restaurant.
Stay at night in the hostel can be less than 300 rubles, the hotel for 1500 and above. Excursion to the Hermitage-Kazan, which is located on the territory of the Kremlin, will cost 250 rubles.
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Belokurikha
Mountains, forest, clean air, natural water, thermal springs - this is Altai. In Belokurikha all the beauty of this region, unique on the planet, is concentrated. This is a resort town of federal importance, where Chinese, Kazakhs, natives from the far east of Russia, Europeans prefer to rest. This is the place where people come to or are treated with mineral waters, or create nature, resting from vanity.
There are several ski lifts in the resort, about four descents, excluding children's ones, there is a small water park at the sanatorium, the number of hotels will satisfy any demand. Regular forums hold wildlife conservation forums, including UNESCO - "Siberian Davos".It is worth to visit the maralniki, where they breed marals - noble deer.
Prices are at a very democratic level. Apartment for 3 - 5 beds will cost in 0,8-2 thousand / day, the hotel room - from 1 to 3 thousand rubles. Special demand is for renting cottages - from 2 thousand rubles for a house with a sauna, a small pool, the Internet and other benefits.
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Derbent
It is considered the oldest city in Russia, if you do not take into account the Crimean Kerch. Derbent is located in the Republic of Dagestan on the shore of the Caspian Sea. This place is located between three cultures: Islam, Christianity and Judaism, which is reflected in the smallest details of the old city, a piece of which and some individual buildings are recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage of Humanity.
There are many hotels and mini-hotels for every taste and purse, it's worth to get acquainted with the local cuisine. Several museums operate in different directions. Derbent is one of the few monuments of Persian culture and military glory. Yet the main attraction is the life of the local population and its hospitality.
Price tags at a very democratic level, stay at the hostel can be for 200rub / night, in a mini-hotel for 3 thousand or more.
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Moscow
Moscow is always mentioned when listing the world's leading cities: New York, London, Tokyo, Dubai and so on. But only in Moscow lives a number of billionaires, which is not found in most countries of the world, the most record version of Forbes. The city is buried in expensive cars, hotels, boutiques, showrooms. Life does not stop here for a minute, all restaurants, nightclubs and bars work until the last visitor. Foreign tourists put St. Petersburg and Moscow in priority, missing other cities in their rating of Russian cities.
What to see in Moscow: foreign tourists are walking along Red Square, where a huge ice rink is being filled in the winter, in May the largest military parade is held in the post-Soviet space, but the most attractive place for foreigners is the mausoleum where Lenin is embalmed. It is always crowded in the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Museum of Fine Arts. At this the sights of Moscow do not end, but only begin.
Moscow is the third city in the rating for tourism of Russia among foreigners, losing only to Peter and Sochi.
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St. Petersburg
Of the advantages: a huge number of world museums, monuments of architecture, a huge number of recreational areas around the city. St. Petersburg can also be safely called the tourist capital of the Russian Federation. Annually up to 3 million foreign tourists and as many compatriots arrive here.
What to see in Petersburg?- all: The Hermitage is one of the world's richest museums, Peterhof - the royal court with gilded fountains, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, Nevsky Prospekt and many other things, there is not enough ink to enumerate. This city is unique and favorably differs from other Russian cities in a pronounced architectural ensemble of literally every street, drawbridges, river canals, and white nights.
Pricing in St. Petersburg is democratic, there are a huge number of hostels, beds in which costs from 200 rubles per night. Number in the hotel will cost 3-50 thousand rubles / night. A high, stable stream of foreign tourists and greed of businessmen made Peter one of the most expensive cities for tourism in Russia in the ranking.
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Sochi
Of advantages: ski slopes, mineral waters, beaches, bars and restaurants, modern architecture, a lot of sports facilities, the Olympic Village.
The subtropical climate prevails here. The city is located on the Black Sea coast. The background for the wealth of hotels, restaurants and residential buildings are the Caucasus Mountains. Since late autumn, the ski resorts of Krasnaya Polyana open the doors. Some locals grow mandarins, which have a peculiar and pleasant taste.
Pricing in Sochi at a high level. The cost of living starts from 1000 rubles per day and ends at infinity. Four-room apartment with a decent repair will cost 4 - 6 thousand / day, the double room "Standard" in the hotel on the first line will cost at least 4 thousand.
Sochi is a Russian city leading in terms of the influx of tourists from CIS countries and the CIS, the first in the rating due to the developed infrastructure and service. Sochi won the championship only due to the demand among compatriots, foreigners rarely look here.
