Russia: attractions and places of interest

AJ Hackett Sochi is an extreme park opened in 2014 in Adler district on the way from Adler to Krasnaya Polyana. The main attraction of Skypark is the longest overhead pedestrian bridge in the world. Its length is almost 440 meters, and the bridge itself is suspended above the Akhshtyrsky Gorge and ...

Not far from Nakhimov Square in Sevastopol is located in a monument to flooded ships, placed in honor of the heroic defense of Sevastopol ( 1854-1855 ) during the Crimean War. The monument was erected in 1905 on the 50th anniversary of the defense of Sevastopol, then guns were removed from the sea ...

Mikhailovsky Castle is the royal residence of the monarch Paul I, erected in 1797-1801. The castle is essentially a palace, but after Paul I was erected into the Great Masters of the Order of Malta, he began to call his own palaces castles. The future ruler conceived the idea of building the reside...

Kolomenskoye is once the residence of Russian kings, and today is an art historical and architectural museum-reserve located in Moscow on the territory of 309 hectares. According to legend, the village of Kolomenskoye was founded by the inhabitants of Kolomna, who fled during the raids of the Mongo...

Kapova cave - a cave in Bashkortostan, famous for the drawings inflicted by primitive people during the Paleolithic. The cave is located on the area of the Shulgan-Tash reserve. There are several versions of the appearance of the name of the cave. According to one of them, which is confirmed by arc...

Rosa Khutor is one of the largest ski resorts in Russia, located in the village of Krasnaya Polyana. In 2014, the Winter Olympic Games were held here. The resort is 40 kilometers from Adler and covers almost 2000 hectares of the slopes of the Aibg ridge. The height difference in Rosa Khutor ranges ...

Lake Onega is Europe's second largest freshwater lake in Russia. The length of the lake is 245 km, and the maximum width is almost 83 km, thus covering an area of 9720 km2. There are a huge number of islands in the lake, a total of 1,650, which occupy an area of 224 km2. The most famous of them is ...

Shchelykovo is a museum reserve in the Kostroma region, many are known as the estate of writer Alexander Ostrovsky. Nowadays, there is a sanatorium, a children's camp and a theater community. In the 17th century, there was a wasteland in this place until the retired general F. bought the land in th...

A beautiful harbor is a national park on the Black Sea coast in Crimea. The park was created in 2009 on an area of 109 km2, but in 2014 they renamed Tarhankutsky. The national park is located on the Tarhankut Peninsula, which is covered mainly by steppe territories and beams crashing into the penin...

Southern cultures are an amazing park in Sochi, broken back in the distant 1910 under the guidance of the talented gardener Arnold Regel. In 1910, General Daniil Vasilievich Drachevsky wanted to break a large park on his Manor Manor on an area of 11 hectares. To do this, he invited a specialist in ...