If the moderate continental winter with its light frosts does not surprise you anymore, then the time has come to visit the champion of temperature records - Yakutia!
If you visit Tuva in time for the summer festival of cattle breeders Naadym (its date is determined by the lunar calendar and changes every year), in addition to witnessing spectacular horse races, you will definitely hear the famous throat singing and enjoy the unusual, but delightful sound of the Tuvan instruments.
Look around! See the horse in shades of fire blazing excitedly at the end of the house? And nearby, a sly fox trying to steal berries and run away? Well, we’re in Ekaterinburg and it’s time to go hunting for street art!
To see the full size of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant, we recommend you to coincide your visit with its spillway, when tons of turbulent water rush down.
Do you think a fluffy scarf would only be found in your grandma’s wardrobe? We strongly disagree! Try one on with your modern clothes - you’ll see how laconically it’ll fit with any classical dress or even a pair of jeans.
Remember Scrooge McDuck, who literally loved to swim in gold? It would be tempting to feel what it’s like to stand in a giant safe surrounded by precious metals…
Just imagine: you and your friends are standing on the top of a mountain, with only mountains around and miles of untouched snow and an inviting descent ahead of you…
If your home is not yet decorated with a “horseshoe for good luck”, you simply must visit the town of Sviyazhsk, where some of the best blacksmiths in the country have been working for centuries!
The frost swirls behind the ‘Buran’ snowmobile have dissipated, we can see frequent antlers and a neat snow-covered log cabin in the back: we have come to visit the Khanty!