Geography

Crimea

Crimea is a diamond-shaped peninsula on the northern shores of the Black Sea. The unique climate and geographic location of this territory mean that it has always been a popular place of habitation a...

Saratov Province

Saratov Province lies on the River Volga in eastern European Russia. The native population is Russians. The traditional festive female attire consisted of a long blouse made from white linen with lon...

Peterhof

When Peterhof was awarded the status of a district centre in 1849, it had already grown from a royal hamlet into a regular European municipality. Between 1827 and 1857, the town was reconstructed on ...

Pskov

Guarding the north-west boundaries of the country, Pskov was an important medieval trading post and centre of Russian Orthodox culture. Besides a rich heritage of literature, architecture, fresco and...

St Petersburg

On 16 May 1703, Peter the Great laid the foundations of a fort on Zayachy (Hare) Island, not far from the mouth of the River Neva. The construction was based on the tsar’s own design and became known...

Taimyr

The Taimyr Peninsula is the northernmost territory on the Asian continent. Lying north of the Arctic Circle, it is washed by the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea. Taimyr is covered in a blanket of snow for th...

Yakutia

Washed by the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea, Yakutia (Sakha Republic) lies in the north-east of Siberia. More than one third of its territory is inside the Arctic Circle. Most of the republic ...

Vologda

Vologda is almost the same age as Moscow. Like many other large Russian towns, its advantageous geographic position meant that it was often drawn into the internecine warfare during the formation of ...

Veliky Ustyug

According to official documents, Veliky Ustyug is only sixty years younger than Moscow. The town of Ustyug is first mentioned in the Russian chronicles in 1207. Later, during the reign of Ivan the Te...

Kostroma

Like Moscow, Kostroma was founded in the middle of the twelfth century. Although the town was sacked by the Mongols in 1238, it quickly reasserted itself under Prince Basil the Drunkard, a younger br...

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