29 June 2025
Summer in St. Petersburg is a special time when the city comes alive and is filled with bright colors, sounds and aromas. Warm weather, long daylight hours and a variety of events make summer in the Northern capital especially attractive for residents and visitors of the city.
09 April 2025
Sochi is a place where the sea meets the mountains and the air is filled with the delicate scent of salt water and flowers blooming along the coast.
01 July 2025
The Day of Russia is an important state holiday of the Russian Federation, celebrated annually on June 12. Until 2002, it was named as the Day of the Adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia. This is one of the youngest public holidays in the country. On June 12, 1990 the First Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Russia, which proclaimed the supremacy of the Constitution of Russia and its laws. By that time, many republics of the USSR had already made a decision on their sovereignty, therefore this document was adopted in conditions when the republics, one after another, became independent. An important milestone in the strengthening of Russian statehood was the adoption of a new name for the country - the Russian Federation (Russia). In addition to independence it was on June 12 when Russia acquired its first President - on this day, but in 1991, the first nationwide open presidential elections in the history of the country were held.