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Russia also officially known as the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects.

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  • Capital: Moscow
  • Language: Russian
  • Currency: Russian Ruble

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St Petersburg: 
Main attractions: 

  • Winter Palace
  • Nevsky Prospect
  • Kazan Cathedral
  • Stroganov Palace
  • Admiralty
  • Palace Square
  • Peter and Paul Fortress 
  • Naval Museum
  • St. Petersburg University 
  • Menshikov Palace 
  • Academy of Fine Arts 
  • Senate Square 
  • Monument to Peter the Great (the Bronze Horseman) 
  • Mariinsky Palace
  • Monument to Nicolas II
  • Summer Gardens 
  • Alexandrinsky Theatre 
  • Smolny Cathedral 
  • Anichkov Palace
  • Monument to Catherine the Great 
  • State Russian Museum
  • Koniushennaya Square
  • Cathedral of Saviour-on-the-Spilled Blood 
  • The numerous canals and rivers, beautiful bridges 
  • Peter and Paul’s Fortress
  • The magnificent St Isaac’s Cathedral
  • The famous Hermitage Museum 
  • Enjoy a ballet or concert performance at the world famous Marinsky Theatre

Moscow:
Main attractions

  • Red Square
  • St Basil’s Cathedral 
  • Kremlin
  • Lenin’s Tomb
  • State History Museum
  • One of the country’s first department stores: GUM. 
  • Nikolskaya Street
  • The famous Bolshoi Theatre
  • Alexandrovsky Garden 
  • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where the Changing of the Guard Ceremony takes place
  • Moscow Circus
  • Tour of Moscow’s Metro Stations 

Recommended excursions:

  • Golden Ring day trip to Suzdal and Vladimir
  • Sergiev Posad day trip and Trinity Lavra Monastery 


 

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Explore Russia

Russia also officially known as the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. At 17,075,400 square kilometres, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.

The nation's history began with that of the East Slavs, who emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium.