Russia: attractions and places of interest

The Grand Canyon of Crimea is a fairly large canyon in the Bakhchisarai region, formed as a result of water exposure about 2 million years ago. The Grand Canyon is over 300 meters deep, only 3.5 kilometers long, and in some places no more than 3 meters wide. About 200 million years ago, the Crimean...

AJ Hackett Sochi Skypark is a park for extreme sports, opened in 2014 in the Adler district on the way from Adler to Krasnaya Polyana. The main attraction of the Skypark is the longest suspension pedestrian bridge in the world. Its length is almost 440 meters, and the bridge itself is suspended ove...

Not far from Nakhimov Square in Sevastopol, there is a monument to sunken ships, erected in honor of the heroic defense of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War. The monument was erected in 1905 to mark the 50th anniversary of the defense of Sevastopol, when to prevent the storming of the c...

Mikhailovsky Castle is the royal residence of Monarch Paul I, erected in 1797-1801. The castle is essentially a palace, but after Paul I was elevated to Grand Master of the Order of Malta, he began to call his own palaces castles. The future ruler conceived the idea of erecting a residence back in ...

Kolomenskoye was once the residence of the Russian tsars, but today it is an art historical and architectural museum-reserve located in Moscow on an area of 309 hectares. According to legend, the village of Kolomenskoye was founded by residents of Kolomna, who fled during the raids of the Mongol Kh...

Kapova Cave is a cave in Bashkortostan, famous for the drawings made by primitive people during the Paleolithic period. The cave is located on the territory of the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve. There are several versions of the origin of the cave's name. According to one of them, which is confirmed ...

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 located 40 kilometers from Adler and covers almost 2,000 hectares of slopes of the Aibga ridge. The elevation difference in Rosa Khuto...

Lake Onega is the second largest freshwater lake in Europe, located in Russia. The length of the lake is 245 km, and the maximum width is almost 83 km, thus occupying an area of 9720 km2. There are a huge number of islands in the lake, there are 1,650 in total, which cover an area of 224 km2. The m...

Shchelykovo is a museum-reserve in the Kostroma region, known to many as the estate of the writer Alexander Ostrovsky. Nowadays, there is a sanatorium, a children's camp and a community of theater-goers. In the 17th century, there was a wasteland in this place, until retired General F. M. Kutuzov b...

The 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 it was renamed Tarkhankutsky. The National park is located on the Tarkhankut peninsula, which is covered mainly by steppe territories and gullies cutting into th...