http://russia.worldtraveldb.com Russia famous tourist attractions destinations detail and video clips Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:28:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amid lovely countryside, Yelets is a relaxing town that looks like a slice out of mid-19th-century Russia. Streets are lined with colonnaded buildings and wood and brick houses, while the town's showpiece, beautiful Ascension Cathedral, is visible from kilometres around. Tucked into the town's tidy streets are another half-dozen working ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/western-european-russia/yelets-western-european-russia-travel-destination/ Sprawling between mountains, landlocked Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is the booming cap- ital of Sakhalin. At times on its main strips (ul Lenina or Kommunistichesky pr - still keeping Marx happy with newly made street signs) you have to struggle to see Russia. There's not a lot to do - that is if ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/russian-far-east/yuzhno-sakhalinsk-russian-far-east-travel-destination/ From the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918 to the high-profile Mafia killings in the 1990s, Yekaterinburg is notorious for its bloody history. Contemporary Yekaterinburg remembers these events, attracting pilgrims and tourists alike to the sites associated with the Romanov deaths.As the economic and cultural capital ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/the-urals/yekaterinburg-the-urals-travel-destination/ Located 14km south of central Tula and around 240km from Moscow, Yasnaya Polyana is the estate (238 6710, 517 6081; www.yasnayapolyana.ru; admission R100; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun May-Oct, 9.30am-3.30pm Tue-Sun Nov-Apr) where the great Russian writer Count Leo Tolstoy was born and buried.Tolstoy spent much of his life in this house, which ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/yasnaya-polyana/yasnaya-polyana-travel-destination/ Yaroslavl, 250km northeast of Moscow, is the urban counterpart to Suzdal. This is the biggest place between Moscow and Arkhangelsk, and it has a more urban feel than anywhere else in the Golden Ring. Its big-city skyline, however, is dotted with onion domes and towering spires, not smoke stacks and ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/golden-ring/yaroslavl-golden-ring-travel-destination/ For somewhere that's over 1000km from any- where much, Yakutsk comes as a pleasant, and sometimes surreal, surprise. Over half of its inhabitants are Yakut - and a good portion of the remainder are Chinese immigrants - so it feels (despite the Lenin statue) less Russian than many places across ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/russian-far-east/yakutsk-russian-far-east-travel-destination/ The Kola Peninsula's southern shore, on the White Sea, is a beautiful, pristine and completely unspoilt coastline with some fascinating architectural, archaeological and geological sites - still largely undiscovered by the outside world. The Varzuga River provides some of the very best salmon fishing in the world.View related video clips ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/northern-european-russia/white-sea-coast-northern-european-russia-travel-destination/ The route looping round to Abakan from Tuva via Askiz is scenically varied, often beautiful and mesmerisingly vast in scale, though the Chinggis Khaan stone near Ak-Dovurak is the only real 'sight'. Independent travellers should be aware of Western Tuva's fearsome reputation for wild lawlessness and unprovoked knife attacks. Even ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/siberia/western-tuva-siberia-travel-destination/ With its birch forests, idyllic rivers and endless rolling steppe, Western European Russia is an enticing vision straight out of Russian folklore. Those seeking the soul of Old Rus would do well to explore this historically rich region, as the charming old villages, photogenic fortress towns and gold-domed monasteries are ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/western-european-russia/western-european-russia-travel-destination/ The 3100km-long Baikal-Amur Mainline (Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral, BAM) is an astonishing victory of belief over adversity. This 'other' trans-Siberian line runs from Tayshet (417km east of Krasnoyarsk) around the top of Lake Baikal to Sovetskaya Gavan on the Pacific coast. Begun in the 1930s to access the timber and minerals of ... http://russia.worldtraveldb.com/siberia/western-bam-siberia-travel-destination/