Russia is a country with unique nature, culture and history. These 10 different routes prepared by experienced travel writers will help you learn more about this fascinating country, and, more than that, as you move toward your destination you will get to know yourself better and understand just what you are capable of.

Recently Russia has been actively developing "independent" tourism, familiar to residents of the West as adventure tourism. The reference information that accompanies all the routes will help you plan your trip.

You have to admit that it is most interesting to ponder the contradictions and symbiosis of western and eastern cultures with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia, and where better than in the Urals, which separates the two continents. On Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus, the highest point in Europe, you will surpass yourself at mountain climbing and never look at the bustling metropolis the same way again. Among the volcanoes and the Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka you will be able to feel the force of tectonic processes that shaped our planet millions of years ago. The castles of the Kaliningrad region will immerse you in the lives of medieval knights, and on the steppes of Khakassia and Tuva you can travel with the nomads and participate in shamanic rituals. Karelia will surprise you with masterpieces of Russian wooden architecture, and the beautiful churches of the Nilo-Stolobensky monastery will fill you with peace. St. Petersburg has once again proved that not for nothing is it known as the cultural capital of not only Russia but Europe as well.

Follow our routes, and without even trying you will refute the conventional saying that there is no life outside Moscow.

We wish you enjoyable and rewarding trips!