07 November 2024
Murmansk is the world's largest city located above the Arctic Circle and one of the largest ports in Russia. Thanks to the warm current, Murmansk is a frost-free port.
01 October 2024
Sochi is an all-year-round tourist destination with a great variety of activities and places of interest, located in the very south of Russia, on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, a 3.5-hour flight from Moscow.
28 July 2022
A museum-apartment of the greatest contemporary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya has opened in Moscow. The permanent exhibition features more than a thousand unique items that tell about the great creative path and personal life of Maya Plisetskaya.
25 July 2022
Recently, a new open-air space called Flagpole (Flagshtok in Russian) has opened in St. Petersburg. The public space delights its visitors with a beautiful view of the expanse of the Gulf of Finland.
13 July 2022
From July 12 to July 24, 2022, the International Festival Opera for Everyone will be held in St. Petersburg. Four masterpieces of world classics will be performed in the most beautiful architectural ensembles of St. Petersburg and its suburbs.
08 July 2022
From July 15, Russia lifts the restrictions on crossing its land borders established in connection with the pandemic. Foreign tourists once again have the opportunity to enter our country, and Russian tourists, respectively, to travel abroad by car, bus or train.
02 July 2022
In the summer season 2022, Ask me SPb service assistants are again on duty at the main sights of St. Petersburg. More than a hundred employees will be helping tourists until the end of summer.
16 June 2022
The Operational Headquarters for Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus decided to partly ease epidemiological restrictions on the entry into Russia of foreign tourists arriving by air, as well as through sea checkpoints, from June 14, 2022.
08 June 2022
From 9 to 11 June, St. Petersburg will host the International Flower Festival. The colorful event will be dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter I, the founder of the city. In the very center of the Northern capital, the best florists from different cities of Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Novosibirsk and others) will present their works.
13 April 2022
Until the 31st of May the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition dedicated to the Mummies of Ancient Egypt, the Art of Immortality. The exposition includes more than 400 exhibits, most of which visitors will see for the first time.
06 April 2022
On the 4th of April the new art project was opened in Ivanovo - Tarkovsky.Return to the Motherland, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky. The exhibition features archival photography and audio recordings, as well as lectures by film critics devoted to the director's works.
30 March 2022
World Theater Day has been celebrated since 1961. This is a professional holiday for actors, directors, lighting and sound engineers, make-up artists, theater artists, even cloakroom attendants and ticket collectors. Theater festivals, thematic exhibitions, performances and excursions are held all over the world on the 27th of March. Theatre was brought to Russia by Peter the Great, but did not yet look like a modern theater. During the reign of his daughter, Elizabeth of Rusia, theater became similar to the one we are used to now.
