A country · 384 places · 43 regions
Russia, all of it.
384 curated places across 43 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
The 4 biggest regions — Tatarstan, Leningrad Oblast, Kamchatka Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast — read below as chapters, with 39 more waiting past them.
Chapter I · Tatarstan · 15 places
Tatarstan
The capital of Tatarstan, where Orthodox and Islamic traditions meet in a lively riverside city on the Volga. Landmarks range from a walled kremlin to the modern Kul Sharif Mosque.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Leningrad Oblast · 14 places
Leningrad Oblast
Peterhof, commissioned by Peter the Great in the early 18th century on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, is an ensemble of palaces and gardens whose defining feature is a cascade of more than 150 fountains running from the Grand Palace down to the sea canal, powered entirely by gravity without pumps. The Grand Cascade's centrepiece is a gilded Samson fountain symbolising Russia's victory over Sweden. The gardens and fountains operate from May to October, and the reflection of the gilded facades in the fountain pools at sunrise provides a classic photographic composition.
✦ May to September · $$
Chapter III · Kamchatka Krai · 12 places
Kamchatka Krai
Kamchatka is a remote peninsula in Russia's far east that holds roughly thirty active volcanoes within its UNESCO-listed clusters of protected areas, making it one of the most volcanically active regions on earth. The Valley of Geysers, one of the world's largest geyser fields, is accessible only by helicopter from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The peninsula's rivers support some of the densest concentrations of Pacific salmon in the world, drawing Steller's sea eagles and Kamchatka brown bears to congregate at spawning sites in autumn.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Novosibirsk Oblast · 11 places
Novosibirsk Oblast
The largest theatre building in Russia is crowned by an enormous silver dome dominating central Novosibirsk. Completed in the 1940s, it remains the leading cultural landmark of Siberia.
✦ Year-round · $
Regions of Russia
- Tatarstan15
- Leningrad Oblast14
- Kamchatka Krai12
- Novosibirsk Oblast11
- Krasnodar Krai10
- Moscow Oblast9
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast9
- Primorsky Krai9
- Vladimir Oblast8
- Yaroslavl Oblast8
- Ivanovo Oblast6
- Karelia6
- Vologda Oblast6
- Irkutsk Oblast5
- Pskov Oblast5
- Sakha5
- Chelyabinsk Oblast4
- Krasnoyarsk Krai4
- Murmansk Oblast4
- Tver Oblast4
- Buryatia3
- Dagestan3
- Komi Republic3
- Novgorodian Land3
- Perm Krai3
- Altai Krai2
- Kabardino-Balkaria2
- Kostroma Oblast2
- Novgorod Oblast2
- Rostov Oblast2
- Sakhalin Oblast2
- Sverdlovsk Oblast2
- Tomsk Oblast2
- Volgograd Oblast2
- Voronezh Oblast2
- Zabaykalsky Krai2
- Astrakhan Oblast1
- Kalmykia1
- Kaluga Oblast1
- Magadan Oblast1
- Ryazan Oblast1
- Tula Oblast1
- Volga Federal District1
Every place in Russia
