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.
04 March 2025
Nizhny Novgorod is a city with centuries of history, founded in 1221. Here you can see ancient buildings, the Kremlin, built in the 16th century, and churches that have preserved the atmosphere of the past.
14 January 2021
On the 13th of January, the Old New Year is celebrated in Russia - a holiday with the traditions of old times and modern habits. The Old New Year appeared in our calendar because of a change in chronology, when the Bolsheviks transferred the country from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one.
11 January 2021
Christmas is an important holiday for the Christian world. It is celebrated by both Catholics and Orthodox. By tradition, the Orthodox Christmas is on the 7th of January, while the Catholic and Protestant is on the 25th of December.
24 December 2020
Dear colleagues and friends,
MIR Travel Company (Russia) would like to thank you for your cooperation and wish you and your families Happy Holidays!
21 December 2020
Lights were lit at the main Christmas tree on the Palace Square in St. Petersburg . This is the tallest live spruce in the city - its height is 25 meters, its weight is 12 tons, and it is 86 years old. Five thousand meters of garlands and 300-meter Christmas lights with retro lamps were used for decoration.
17 December 2020
These days the open-air exhibition Through the Prospect is taking place on the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg. The works of local sculptors are exhibited on the main avenue of the city - Nevsky Prospect. Since 8th December sculptures have been appearing every night on transparent pedestals.
14 December 2020
The Museum of Cosmonautics and the cosmonauts from the International Space Station will conduct an online geography lesson The Earth is Our Space Address. They will tell students about how they explore the Earth from Space, what the orbit is, and how the geographic location of spaceports affects the orbits of satellite launching.
11 December 2020
Spotify has named the most popular Russian musicians abroad. By a wide margin, the list of the most listened to Russian performers abroad was headed by the Russian composer and conductor P. Tchaikovsky. He became the most popular Russian artist among foreign users of the Spotify platform at the end of 2020.
08 December 2020
The St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography - The Kunstkamera – celebrated its 306th anniversary on 06th December. It is one of the largest and oldest ethnographic museums in the world, the collection funds of which number over 1.2 million item
03 December 2020
Moscow and Saint-Petersburg have won one of the most prestigious travel awards - World Travel Awards 2020. Saint-Petersburg won in the category World Leading Cultural Destination, winning against 14 popular tourist cities, including Paris, London, Rome, Venice, New York and Rio de Janeiro.
30 November 2020
There is probably no country where Mother's Day is not celebrated. In Russia, Mother's Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of November, paying tribute to maternal devotion, their sacrifice for the good of their children and also in order to increase the social significance of motherhood.
