TravelRus: exploring Saint Petersburg and Russia, Saint Petersburg (2026)

30/03/2020

Tyva republic is an absolute highlight of South-Siberian part of Russia yet not universally recognized as a travel gem.

🔆It is a land of steppe and mountains with the very original culture of indigenous population. The climate here is influenced by the abundance of mountains which results in very cold winters and extremely hot summers. It is thus recommended to visit the region in early autumn or late spring.

🔆Tyva is famous with its numerous shamanism and Buddhism spots, as well as authentic nature that has hardly been touched by men, since there are no huge manufacturing spots in this region.

🔆Kyzyl is the capital of Tyva and claims to be at the exact center of Asia having the monument with the same name. Kyzyl hosts a Chief Shaman Center where one might even have a chance to see the Chief Shaman and get his audience.

🔆At the center of Kyzyl you will find the famous Buddhist prayer wheel. Among the major tourist attractions in Tyva is Tere-Khol lake with the purest water and rare animals and plants, the Valley of the Tsars, the burial mounds that are around three thousand years old, and a lot more.

28/03/2020

Altai is a fascinating part of Russia with picturesque steppe plains, clear mountain rivers and sheer cliffs. It’s believed to be the world of shamans, spirits and ancient legends. One of the says the entrance to Shambhala is here, in Altai mountains and the Lake Teletskoye.

DAY 1

🔸Arrival in Barnaul
🔸Tour to the Chuysky road – a path known from ancient times when it was used by warriors and merchants. Chuysky road is surrounded by mountains, we will see the Chike-Taman pass more closely. It is one of the most beautiful roads in the world named by the National Geographic
🔸Transfer to Chibit village, where tourists stay in wooden houses typical for Altai region. The camp offers a traditional Russian bathhouse.

DAY 2

🔸Bus tour to the valley of river Chulyshman (135 km). You will see landscapes with their poetic names (Red Gate mountains, Dead lakes and others) and walk through the Katu-Yaryk mountain pass about 3 km.
🔸Lunch and dinner at Katu-Yaryk. Overnight at the camp in wooden houses.

DAY 3

🔸Walking tour to the Uchar waterfall (22 km, 8-10 hrs total). A tourist path running through clear springs will lead you to the largest cascade waterfall of Altai about 160 m high

DAY 4

🔸Walking tour to the “Stone mushrooms” rocks. That’s a rare natural wonder created by wind, water and temperature changes through hundreds of years.
🔸Tour to the lake Teletskoye, one of the main places of interest in Altai.
🔸Dinner and overnight at a camp ion wooden houses.

DAY 5

🔸Free day at the camp on the shore of Teletskoye lake.

DAY 6

🔸“Searching for the Shambhala gate” – a boat trip in lake Teletskoye (78 km). Shambhala is a mysterious land from ancient Asian legends. There’s a belief that once in a hundred years a special light is seen above the Teletskoye lake meaning to be the entrance to Shambhala.
🔸Tour to Korby waterfall located right in the lake.
🔸Transfer to Barnaul and check-in at the hotel.

DAY 7

🔸Transfer to the airport in Gorno-Altaysk or Novosibirsk.

Price - from 48600₽

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25/03/2020

Altai is the republic in the Eastern Siberian part of Russia.

🌲As the Far East, it is famous with its nature and the mystic spirit of shamanism. It is considered as the place of power. Altai mountains are called the Russian Switzerland, Russian Tibet or Russian New Zealand because of its beauty and richness. The capital of Altai region, Gorno-Altaysk, is the only city in this region, and it is almost the only essential point about it. To discover Altai, it is better to go directly to the nature.

🌲One of the most popular travelers’ activities are mountain hiking routes which will show you mountain landscapes, caves, waterfalls, rivers and unique flora and fauna. Many travel gems of Altai are connected to water, so it is recommended to visit this region in summer.

🌲Among the places to visit is Chemal, the recreation center with lots of tourist camps, hiking, rafting on the river Katun, eco-tourism and various other activities. Close to Chemal you can find the island Patmos with the wooden church. The way to the island is along the hanging walking bridge that opens a fantastic view on the river Katun.

🌲The Chuysky road is one more attraction of Altai, the picturesque road that was used in the ancient times as a trade road between Russia and Mongolia. The lake Teletskoe is one the mostly visited tourist spot in Altai with various excursions available – walking, biking and hiking tours, water excursions, automobile and aerial tours. The lake Teletskoe is a genuine natural treasure with crystal-clear water and rocky shores. Altai has a lot more to offer so have a closer look at this picturesque region.

23/03/2020

Welcome to Moscow — beautiful capital of Russia!

DAY 1

🔹Arrival to Moscow
🔹Bus city tour of Moscow: Triumfalnaya Square, Bolshoi and Maly Theaters, Kremlin Embankment, Poklonnaya Mountain, Triumphal Arch on Kutuzov Avenue, Government House of Russia.
🔹Visit to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

DAY 2

🔹Excursion to the Kremlin with a visit to one of the cathedrals. Walk through the Cathedral Square, where the unique architectural and town planning ensemble of the Middle Ages and the outstanding monuments of ancient Russian architecture are preserved: the Assumption, Blagoveshchensky, Archangel Cathedrals, the Church of the Regime, the Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
🔹Walking tour «Red Square – the heart of Moscow»: Red and Manezhnaya Square, GUM, Alexander Garden.
🔹Excursion walk along the Arbat.
🔹Walk on the motor ship «Radisson Royal» (in winter – the icebreaker «Radisson Royal») on the Moscow River, during which you can not only enjoy the panorama of Moscow, but also have lunch.

DAY 3

🔹Country excursion to Sergiev Posad
Excursion to the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra with a visit to the three cathedrals.
🔹Excursion on the Moscow metro – a true masterpiece of architectural art, some stations of which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

DAY 4

🔹Excursion to the museum of cosmonautics is one of the largest scientific and technical museums in the world, whose collection includes more than 93 thousand exhibits.
🔹Walk on VDNKh.
🔹Excursion to the Tretyakov Gallery – a real treasury of Russian painting, graphics and sculpture
🔹Visit to the Museum of Russian Vodka with sightseeing service, dinner and tasting of 3 types of alcoholic beverages.

DAY 5

🔹A bus tour to the Kolomenskoye museum-estate, the former summer residence of Moscow tsars and princes, with which many events in Russian history are connected.
🔹Transfer to the airport, the end of the program.

Price - from 32500₽

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20/03/2020

Russia has 11 time zones. Every zone has the same time on its territory. In Russia time is not adjusted to winter/summer time, thus time difference with some countries may change in one hour on autumn and spring.

Together with the international time system based on Greenwich meridian (UTC), Russia has its own scale with the baseline Moscow time (MSK). Thus, the time in Kaliningrad can be described as UTC+2 (meaning that in Kaliningrad it is 2 hours more than in the UK) or as MSK-1 (one hour less than in Moscow).

1️⃣Time zones and transport

Important to know: plane and train tickets have local time. Before 2018 trains in Russia departed and arrived at Moscow time because the unified time was considered as more convenient to manage the system of train traffic. .

2️⃣Travelling and time zones

If you travel within the particular regions of Russia, you may not necessarily witness the difference of the time in various time zones. For example, if you take a Golden Ring tour and visit Moscow, Yaroslavl, Rostov the Great, you will stay within the Moscow time. The same story if you visit the Russian South: you will not need to adjust your watch from the Moscow time as you will be in its realm. However, as soon as you take a longer trip such as Trans-Siberian Railtrip, you will be able to experience difference time zones. You will start from Moscow with baseline Moscow time, then proceed to Ekaterinburg where it is going to be 2 hours more than in Moscow (MSK+2), then to Krasnoyarsk (MSK+4), Irkutsk (MSK+5) and finish in Vladivostok where the time difference with baseline time will be 7 hours.

3️⃣Travelling with the train, you really experience the size of the country and its expansion. Though taking a plane, you will also experience a curious effect: if you fly from Moscow to the East, then you will lag behind the time and you will land in Vladivostok with seven hours of time lag. Alternatively, if you fly back to Moscow you are ahead of time: you may take off in Vladivostok at 10 a.m. at local time, spend about 8 hours at the plane and land in Moscow approximately at 11 a.m. (MSK). Feels like an eternally long day!

18/03/2020

South-Eastern Baltics is a real of wonderful cities: splendid Saint Petersburg, medieval Tallinn, gothic and modern Riga, eclectic and green Vilnius.

DAY 1. Saint Petersburg

🔹Arrival to Saint Petersburg
🔹City sightseeing bus tour
🔹Peter and Paul Fortress.
🔹Boat trip in the historical part of St. Petersburg (audio guide included).

DAY 2

🔹Peterhof – the residence of Russian tzars. It is a must-see for anyone coming to St. Petersburg. It’s called the Russian Versailles for its astonishing park of fountains and baroque architecture.
🔹Option: a night boat trip under the famous draw bridges of St. Peterburg

DAY 3

🔹St. Isaac’s Cathedral
🔹The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
🔹The State Hermitage

DAY 4. Tallinn

🔹Trip to Tallinn.
🔹Check-in at the hotel. Lunch.
🔹Sightseeing tour in Tallin. You will watch the city panorama from the observation spots in Toompea castle and see the major highlights: the Town hall, St. Olaf’s Church, one of the oldest chemist’s shops in Europe and many more.
🔹Option: “Secrets of the Estonian cuisine” – a traditional dinner with local bread and cheese in the restaurant.

DAY 5. Riga

🔹Transfer to Riga and check-in.
🔹City tour in the Old town of Riga. Existing from the 13th century Riga has preserved its gothic history – the Dome Cathedral, St. Peter’s Church, the House of the Blackheads, the Riga Castle, the oldest domestic buildings called “Three brothers”.
🔹Option: an excursion to the Dome Cathedral built more than 800 years ago.

DAY 6. Vilnius

🔹Transfer to Vilnius and check-in.
🔹City tour in the historical part of Vilnius. The city architectural style is a result of several epoques following one another – there are gothic and classic, art nouveau and baroque buildings there.
🔹Transfer to the airport.

Price - from 67000₽

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15/03/2020

1️⃣Keep in mind, that your visa is valid only for one of the areas – if it is issued for Saint Petersburg, you are not allowed to visit other e-visa areas (Kaliningrad or Far East) and it is prohibited to leave the area of your stay, so if you stay in Saint Petersburg, you are not allowed to visit Moscow. All passports are being checked in each airport and railway station even for domestic departures so there is no way to cheat.

2️⃣Also, you need to calculate the duration of your stay: the allowed period of stay with an e-visa is up to 8 days which does not mean 192 hours: no matter what time you arrive on Monday, you should leave the country not later than the next Monday. However, there is one more rule applied: if you enter on Monday but your visa expires on Wednesday, then Wednesday can be the last day of your stay.

3️⃣Remember that the e-visa is valid only for one entry, so once you passed the passport control point and left the territory of Russian Federation, you are not allowed to enter again with the same e-visa. There is no official information on whether there is any restriction on how often you can apply for e-visas so just keep in mind the common rule of 90 days within 180 days. If the duration of your stay in the last 180 days has not exceeded 90 days (with any type of visa), you can apply for another e-visa right after you leave Russia.

4️⃣For all the visitors to Russia crossing its borders a valid medical insurance is necessary, so doublecheck that your whole stay is covered, and you have it printed. If you don’t, it might be a serious reason to reject entry.

5️⃣Please note, that as in any other country, officers have a right to deny your entry if they suspect that your purpose of stay is other than the one mentioned in your visa application or that you somehow might be a threat to the country’s safety. But if you are a traveler eager to see Russia’s famous beauty then you have nothing to worry about.

Enjoy your stay!😃

13/03/2020

Welcome to Kaliningrad — the largest city and the administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea.

DAY 1

🔺Group meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel. Check in. Dinner.
Free time.

DAY 2

🔺Excursion to the National Park Curonian Spit, 7 hours.
Route: village Lesnoe, village Rybachyi, Dune Efa.
The Curonian Spit, created by the sea and the wind, is a narrow sandy strip of land, where the salt sea is adjacent to the freshwater bay. This unique and picturesque place was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and recognized as a state natural national park. You will touch the mystery of the Dancing Forest, the tree trunks here bend in the most bizarre way. Visit the viewpoint on the dune of Efa, from where the whole variety of landscapes of the spit opens: the sea, the bay, pine forests, sandy desert.
🔺Fish lunch during the tour.
You will have the opportunity to purchase smoked fish, which yesterday swam in the bay, there is a variety of choice.
🔺According to the program, we will visit the bird banding station.

DAY 3

🔺Excursion «Acquaintance with Kaliningrad», 6 hours.
Route: Kaliningrad
Sightseeing tour with visiting of the main attractions of the city: Victory Square, the sculpture “The Fighting Bison” in front of the Königsberg Land Court, the monument to Peter I in front of the Baltic Fleet headquarters, the drama theater, the area of the old German villas Amalienau, the defensive fortifications of the city, the Royal and Rosgarten gates.
🔺According to the program, we will take a boat trip along the Pregolya River and visit the Marzipan Museum at the Brandenburg Gate.
🔺You will definitely walk along the walls of the Cathedral (an example of North German Gothic of the XIV century), where the grave of the famous philosopher I. Kant is located.
🔺Walk around the Fish Village.
🔺Airport transfer.

Price - from 16500₽

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10/03/2020

How to apply?🙋

To start, go to the official web-page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, choose your nationality and an area to visit. The interface is user friendly and is fully translated into English.

✅You should submit your application for an e-visa not earlier than 20 days and not later than 4 days before the planned date of arrival. Before applying doublecheck your passport as it must be valid for at least 6 months from the date you apply for an e-visa and have free space for border crossing stamps. Make sure to consult the list of border crossing points where e-visas are accepted on the official page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before planning your trip. Pay attention that Moscow airports are not on the list and that you cannot enter Leningrad region and Saint Petersburg by train.

✅When filling all the necessary fields, please make sure that your surname and name are entered correctly, using only the basic Latin letters as indicated in the first machine-readable line of your passport (the white area with a lot of letters and numbers that you see in the bottom of your passport when you open the page containing your photo), as for some countries names may contain letters with diacritics which cannot be used while filling in an application, so this first machine-readable line of your passport shows you exactly the way you should write your name. So far, this is the most common mistake that leads to rejection while crossing the border.

✅Submitting your application, it is mandatory to choose you gender: male or female, as mentioned in the passport. If the information provided does not correspond to your passport details, your entry will be denied.

✅To apply it is necessary to provide a photo in the JPEG format following all the requirements: the photo must be taken in the last six months, there should be no other objects in the background, you should look straight at the camera with a neutral expression, your natural skin color should be seen clearly and the format must be 35x45. Remember, all these requirements are really important and your application can be rejected if your face is not clearly visible.

08/03/2020

Russia has always been a multinational country. Besides Moscow and Saint Petersburg the beautiful Kazan city can be called the 3rd capital of Russia being the center of its main Muslim part, Tatarstan – a prosperous region with special national culture and original cuisine. Kazan is a place where Orthodox and Muslim cultures coexist since Middle Ages, it surely creates an interesting image of the city and its people.

DAY 1. Moscow

🔸Arrival to Moscow.Transfer to the hotel. Check-in. Free time.

DAY 2

🔸City sightseeing bus tour. Observing the most famous sights of Moscow
Kremlin. А walking tour inside the unique medieval architecture and a visit to one of the Kremlin cathedrals.
🔸The Red square – the heart of Moscow
🔸The Arbat street. A walking tour along the most distinguishing pedestrian street which is one of the symbols of Moscow.

DAY 3

🔸Museum-estate "Tsaritsyno"
🔸The observation deck of the Federation Tower skyscraper, 89th floor (the Moscow City business centre)

DAY 4

🔸"Stories and legends of the underworld" – an excursion in the Moscow underground (metro)
🔸The State Tretyakov Gallery – the famous museum, where Russian gems of fine arts have been exhibited since 1856.
🔸A night trip to Saint Petersburg by train.

DAY 5. Saint Petersburg

🔸City sightseeing bus tour.
🔸Peter and Paul Fortress.
🔸The State Hermitage.

DAY 6

🔸St. Isaac’s Cathedral.
🔸The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.

DAY 7

🔸Tour to Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin)
🔸Flight to Kazan.
🔸Arrival to Kazan. Transfer to the hotel.

DAY 9

🔸“Kazan – my love”. A bus city tour through the impressive places of interest: the Old-Tatar Sloboda, the Kaban Lake, merchant houses, old streets, the mosque of 18th.
🔸Excursion to the Kazan Kremlin.
🔸Museum of Chack-Chack – you’re welcome to taste a traditional tatar sweet.

DAY 10

🔸Trip to Sviyazhsk, a village and an island at the same time. Ancient monasteries and temples, beautiful nature surrounded by the Volga river seem to appear from the Russian folk tales.

Price - from 98700₽

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07/03/2020

Spring in Crimea🌸

06/03/2020

Beautiful night in Saint Petersburg✨💜

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