Saint Petersburg

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Date: March 2017

Tsarskoye Selo was the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers south from the center of Saint Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin. Tsarskoye Selo forms one of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. During the Soviet times it was known as Detskoye Selo.

Oryol

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Date: March 2017
Distance: 1315 km
Time of travelling: 116 days

Oryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately 360 kilometers south-southwest of Moscow. Population: 317,747 (2010 Census); 333,310 (2002 Census); 336,862 (1989 Census).

Smolensk

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Date: January 2017
Distance: 1020 km
Time of travelling: 24 days

Moscow

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Date: March 2016
Distance: 1227 km
Time of travelling: 18 days

Greetings from... Russia

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Date: May 2016

Novosibirsk

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Date: March 2016
Distance: 3780 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Novosibirsk is the third most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,473,754 as of the 2010 Census. It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District. The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley, near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant, and occupies an area of 502.1 square kilometers.

Moscow

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Date: January 2016
Distance: 1560 km
Time of travelling: 24 days

Vladimir

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Date: November 2015
Distance: 1560 km
Time of travelling: 19 days

Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, 200 kilometers to the east of Moscow. It is served by a railway and the M7 motorway. Population: 345,373 (2010 Census).

Russia

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Date: January 2016
Distance: 690 km
Time of travelling: 43 days

Sankt Petersburg

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Date:  October 2015

Baikal

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Date:  December 2015
Distance: 5058 km
Time of travelling: 15 days

Lake Baikal was formed as an ancient rift valley, having the typical long crescent shape with a surface area of 31,722 km2. Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of which exist nowhere else in the world. The lake was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. It is also home to Buryat tribes who reside on the eastern side of Lake Baikal, rearing goats, camels, cattle, and sheep, where the mean temperature varies from a winter minimum of −19 °C to a summer maximum of 14 °C.

Russia

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Date:  October 2015
Distance: 1171 km
Time of travelling: 26 days

Russia

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Date:  November 2014
Distance: 4291 km
Time of travelling: 24 days

Sankt Petersburg

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Date: September 2015

Nizhny Novgorod

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Date: August 2015
Distance: 1560 km
Time of travelling: 32 days

Pechersky Ascension Monastery (Russian: Печёрский Вознесенский монастырь, Pechyorsky Vozensensky Monastyr) is a monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is the principal monastery of the Nizny Novgorod Eparchy (diocese) and the seat of the Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas.

Russia

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Date: October 2014
Distance: 1361 km
Time of travelling: 10 days

Russia

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Date: October 2014

Russian Federation

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Date: November 2014
Distance: 1251 km
Time of travelling: 30 days

Saint Petersburg

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Date: January 2015
Distance: 690 km
Time of travelling: 33 days

Kamchatka

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Date: January 2015
Distance: 1227 km
Time of travelling: 104 days

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Immediately offshore along the Pacific coast of the peninsula runs the 10,500-metre  deep Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.