Europe Travel Destinations

Moscow

Moscow is Russia's vast capital, home to the Kremlin, Red Square, and a grand, sometimes forbidding, imperial and Soviet-era cityscape.

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is Russia's grand imperial-era capital, built on canals and famed for the Hermitage, Peterhof, and its White Nights.

Kazan

Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, where a UNESCO-listed Kremlin holds a great mosque and an Orthodox cathedral side by side.

Vladivostok

A hilly Pacific port city near China, Japan, and the Koreas, and the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Novosibirsk

Russia's third-largest city and the unofficial capital of Siberia, built around the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Ob River.

Yekaterinburg

A major Ural Mountains city straddling Europe and Asia, shaped by Romanov history and Soviet-era industry.

Sochi

A Black Sea resort city where subtropical beaches meet the snowy Caucasus Mountains, home to Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics venues.

Nizhny Novgorod

A riverside city where a medieval Kremlin overlooks the meeting point of the Volga and Oka rivers.

Vladimir

A 12th-century former capital on Russia's Golden Ring, known for UNESCO-listed white-stone cathedrals and easy day trips from Moscow.

Yaroslavl

A 1,000-year-old city where the Volga meets the Kotorosl, with a UNESCO-listed historic center and Russia's largest concentration of Golden Ring monuments.

Rostov Veliky

A 1,000-plus-year-old lakeside town on the Golden Ring, famous for the onion-domed Rostov Kremlin overlooking Lake Nero.

Kaliningrad

A Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, wedged between Poland and Lithuania, blending Prussian Königsberg heritage with a heavily militarized present.

Irkutsk

A 360-year-old Siberian city on the Angara River, known for its carved wooden houses, Decembrist history, and role as the main gateway to Lake Baikal.

Petrozavodsk

A historic lakeshore capital in northwest Russia, and the gateway to Kizhi Island, Karelian forests, and wooden architecture.

Pskov

A 1,000-year-old fortress city near the Estonian border, famed for its Kremlin, UNESCO churches, and riverside walks.

Murmansk

The world's largest city above the Arctic Circle, known for Northern Lights, polar extremes, and a nuclear-icebreaker museum.

Krasnoyarsk

A major Siberian city on the Yenisei River, known for the towering Stolby rock reserve and Trans-Siberian rail links.

Samara

A million-plus Volga River city famed for its riverside promenade, Stalin's WWII bunker, and space-age heritage.

Volgograd

Volgograd is a Volga River city defined by its Battle of Stalingrad memorials, including the towering Motherland Calls statue.

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