wikitravel.org:
I made a separate category for Kaliningrad because a) this makes the subregions for Northwestern Russia total up to a maximum 9 and b) Kaliningrad is really much more in Northern Europe than in Northwestern Russia ,at least from a "getting in" or "getting out" perspective.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Talk:Russia/Geographic_Hi...
lonelyplanet.com:
There is also the BAM, the baikal amur mainline which operates in Eastern Siberia from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Baikal and runs parallel with the Trans-Siberian, but is about 800km north of it.
Read more from
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/message.jspa...
lonelyplanet.com:
Do learn to use the Your Train -CIS train schedule website as well as the Russian Train Site This site is in Russian but it is available in in English RZD Eng for a limited number of cities and then it leads you to the Russian only pages.
Read more from
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/print/thread...
lonelyplanet.com:
New Russia Sticky.
Read more from
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?...
wikipedia.org:
The migration of Russians in the territory of modern Novosibirsk Oblast began in the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berdsk
world66.com:
There is the one of the best mountain-skiing routes of Russia in the southern part of Kola peninsula.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/karelia
wikipedia.org:
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolyvan,_Novosibirsk_...
goworldtravel.com:
We were in the Altai, an astoundingly beautiful region of steppe and rugged mountains situated in the far southeast of Russia, close to the Mongolian border.
Read more from
http://www.goworldtravel.com/ex/aspx/articleGuid.%...
wikitravel.org:
There is a rail branch from the Trans-Siberian Railway junction at Taiga, Kemerovo Oblast leading to Tomsk.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Tomsk
world66.com:
The city?s nicknames include the capital of Siberia , the pearl of Siberia ,and even Paris of Siberia.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/irkutsk
wikitravel.org:
Bombed, blockaded and starved during World War II, the city took a back seat to Moscow during the Soviet era.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Saint_Petersburg_(Russia)...
wikipedia.org:
This category is related to the city Novosibirsk in Siberia ,third largest city in Russia.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Novosibirsk
wikitravel.org:
On the Railway station, some elderly women can suggest rooms in their own flats for ~10USD per night—accept at your own risk (elderly women may have young sons).
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Krasnoyarsk
wikipedia.org:
This means that the time shift is the same as in Omsk Oblast ,which borders it on the west, even though it is technically located in a different timezone, and one hour behind Kemerovo Oblast despite it being in the same timezone.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk_Oblast
wikipedia.org:
Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia (after Moscow and Saint Petersburg) and the largest in Siberia in which a metro system was established (the Novosibirsk Metro ,opened in 1986).
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk
wikitravel.org:
Perm-II station is an important junction on the Trans Siberian Railway and therefore very well served by train.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Perm
wikipedia.org:
The city of Novosibirsk has a population of 1.5 million people and was founded as a junction city between the main transfer arteries in Siberia ,the Trans-Siberian railway and the river Ob.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk_Metro
world66.com:
Today it is an important industrial center, and is the administrative center of the Yaroslavl Region, or Oblast, bordering the Moscow Oblast.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/yaroslavl
wikipedia.org:
The Buryats offered some opposition, but between 1631 and 1641 the Cossacks erected several palisaded forts in their territory, and in 1648 the fort on the upper Uda River beyond Lake Baikal.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Siberia
wikipedia.org:
However the number of Russians living in poverty has halved since the economic crisis following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the improving economy has had a positive impact on the country's low birth-rate (According to the US Census Bureau the nadir was 8.27 per 1000 in 1999 the 2006 rate is estimated at 9.95 per 1000.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russi...
world66.com:
Also the battle fields of World War II are located around here.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/volgograd
wikitravel.org:
And if anyone knows of good published data on annual visitors to Russian cities, that would be very helpful.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Talk:Russia
world66.com:
Every year it becomes more popular not only for mountain-skiing fans, but also for fans of the ecological tourism.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/the_black_sea...
wikipedia.org:
Notes: (1) Includes the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ; (2) A federal subject of the Russian Federation ; (3) See Cyprus dispute ; (4) Gagauzia is a territorial autonomous unit of Moldova ; (5) Karakalpakstan is an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan; (6) Xinjiang Uyghur is an autonomous region of the.
Read more from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvashia
nationalgeographic.com:
The President stunned them with his opening remarks: "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed that at least one case of smallpox—and maybe as many as 20—have occurred among civilians in Oklahoma City.
Read more from
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0211/feature...
world66.com:
For someone on a budget the train is a great way to travel between Western Russia and European countries.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/gettingaround...
wikitravel.org:
There are also occasional charter flights to Seoul, New Delhi, Sharjah, and Kabul.
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Bishkek
wikitravel.org:
Read more from
http://wikitravel.org/en/Kazakhstan
world66.com:
Russian officials were collecting yasak (the fur tax) in Yakutia, but otherwise they would not interfere with the Sakha lifestyle.
Read more from
http://www.world66.com/europe/russia/yakutia/yakut...