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Holidays in Siberia. Siberia.

Includes :  Altai Republic, Altai Krai, Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Irkutsk Oblast, Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Republic of Khakassia, Kemerovo Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, and Tuva Republic.

Administrative center: Novosibirsk


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Hotels in Russia

 
Centrally located hotels in all major cities ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

  Allrussianhotels.com

Travel Agents / TourOperators

Shoestring - Russia   -  Trans-Mongolian Express
A lifelong dream can become a reality as you take a two-week world-famous trip aboard the Trans-Mongolian Express, slipping effortlessly through the beautiful countryside of Siberia and Mongolia on a journey totaling 7 ,865 kilometres. Naturally you'll want to spend longer in the areas that you are whizzing through, which is why there is a break for a few days to explore Irkutsk and Ulan Bator before arriving into Beijing.

 
Create your perfect trip to Siberia   -   Flight, Hotel and Car

  Fregata Travel
  Intourist   -   Transsiberian Railway



  Norvista UK   -   Experts on travel to Russia
  Scantours UK
Independent tour operator. Here you will find many flexible, good value holiday ideas and arrangements.
  The Adventure Company

  Interactive Russia

Travel Guides Russia / Magazines / Related books

Lake Baikal: Siberia's Great Lake
Marc Di Duca (Author)
Keen geographers know that Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake and that it's home to unique species such as the nerpa freshwater seal. But Lake Baikal is much more than a body of water. Here, two cultures – Russian and Mongol – meet. The area is steeped in shamanism and Buddhism, while the lake's shores are scored by the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway. This is the first English-language guide dedicated to Lake Baikal and its surroundings. It provides full coverage of activities, wildlife, culture and religion, as well as practical information on travelling in this diverse corner of Siberia. Born in the UK, Marc Di Duca has spent a decade living, working and travelling in post-communist Eastern Europe. His Ukrainian wife and in-laws have helped him gain a sound knowledge of Russian to add to his fluent Czech.
Paperback: 208 pages; Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 1 edition (Feb 2010); ISBN-10: 184162294X; ISBN-13: 978-1841622941.

Cycling Home from Siberia  -   Rob Lilwall (Author)
In 2004 Rob Lilwall arrived in Siberia equipped only with a bike and a healthy dose of fear. CYCLING HOME FROM SIBERIA recounts his epic three and a half year, 30,000 mile journey back to England via the forboding jungles of Papua New Guinea, an Australian cyclone and Afghanistan's war-torn Hindu Kush.
A gripping story of endurance and adventure, this is also a spiritual journey giving a poignant insight into life on the road in some of the world's toughest corners.
Paperback: 368 pages; Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (20 Aug 2009); ISBN-10: 034097981X; ISBN-13: 978-0340979815.

http://www.cyclinghomefromsiberia.com/

Transport / How do I travel to Siberia

  Novosibirsk Airport  -  Tolmachevo Airport  -  West Siberia
International destinations and operating on domestic routes [ Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Mirny ]

  Ebookers  -   
Book flights to Russia at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights

  Aeroflot
Flights from London to Moscow Domodevo, Moscow Sheremetyevo, St. Peterburg and other cities in Russia

  Russian Railways

  Transrussia.net


Links 

  Travel Insurance  -   online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

  Russian National Tourist Office
Tours & Packages, Excursions, Trans-Siberian Express, Traveler Tips, Cruises and more

  Government Russia  -  Russian Government
Official information and documents from the Web-pages of the Russian President, Security Council as well as references to the Web-pages of other official Web-sites.

  Novosibirsk  -  Administrative center:

  Altai Republic
  Altai Krai
  Buryat Republic
  Chita Oblast
  Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
  Irkutsk Oblast
  Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
  Republic of Khakassia
  Kemerovo Oblast
  Krasnoyarsk Krai
  Novosibirsk Oblast
  Omsk Oblast
  Tomsk Oblast
  Tuva Republic

  City.ru  -  Russian cities on the web

Cuisine  -  Russian Recipes

  Russian Cuisine
Welcome to the world of authentic Russian cuisine and cooking recipes,  the place for lovers of delicious dishes and culture of the Rus.  In their Russian recipes cookbook you'll find a great number of palatable dishes (hors-d'oeuvres, main courses, desserts, beverages etc.) from ancient times to the present. With their help you'll taste and find out tales about the most popular ethnic dishes of Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Georgian, Armenian and other cuisines.
The Cuisine of the Caucasus Mountains: Recipes, Drinks and Lore from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia  -  by Kay Shaw Nelson
Paperback 272 pages (May 2002); Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc

History of Russia

Wikipedia - Russia's History: Early East Slavs, Kievan Rus', Volga Bulgaria, Khazaria, Mongol Invasion, Golden Horde, Muscovy, Imperial Russia, Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, Soviet Union, Russian Federation

  Bucknell University  -  Russian History
This page attempts to capture the flavor of the rich diversity evolving over Russian history and hence depends as much on the endeavors of others as those of the Russian Studies Program.
  Russian Museums

Music, Art & Culture, Events & Entertainment

Siberia: A Cultural History   -   Anthony Haywood
Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their 'colony' in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange and frightening paradise. It was Siberia. Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to the Americas. It was a promised land to which bonded peasants could flee their cruel masters, yet also a 'white hell' across which exiles shuffled in felt shoes and chains. If in Stalin s era Siberia became synonymous with the gulag, today it is a vast region of bustling metropolises and magnificent landscapes, a place where the humdrum, the beautiful and the bizarre ignite the imagination. Tracing the historical contours of Siberia, A. J. Haywood offers a detailed account of the architectural and cultural landmarks of cities such as Irkutsk, Tobolsk, Barnaul and Novosibirsk.
*   Magnificent rivers and lakes: Lake Baikal, the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisey, Angara, Lena and Amur rivers. Russian writer Anton Chekhov described some, polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the eccentric British merchant captain Joseph Wiggins navigated others.
*   The cities and the railway: High fashion and low life, traffic-choked streets and chimney stacks. Siberia s cities bring a madding crowd far into the remote taiga--linked by the Trans-Siberian Railway, the nineteenth-century camel track.
*   Mystics, Mountains and ancient civilisations: Nikolay Rerikh sought the mystical kingdom of Shambhala here, Russian writer Valentin Rasputin was confused by its beauty, while local Altaians themselves see their republic of mountains and steppe as a Central Asian heaven on earth
Paperback: 288 pages; Publisher: Signal Books Ltd (24 May 2010); ISBN-10: 1904955681; ISBN-13: 978-1904955689.

Web Portals / Russian Search Engines / Directories

  Yellow Guide Russia
  InfoArt  -  search engine
  List.ru  -  search engine

  Explore North  -  all the information you need to explore the circumpolar North.
The region they cover: the northern parts of the Russian Federation.
  Languages of Russia  -  website by  M. Bergmann
This multimedia web site gives you access to information on the about 100 languages, which are spoken in the Russian Federation at the beginning of the third millennium. Many of these languages are endangered and some are even on the verge of extinction [ University of Groningen; Phonetics and Ethnolinguistics ]
  Russiatrek.com  -  Everything Russian in English
  The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire  -  Eesti Keele Instituut, Tallinn, Estonia
A book with articles detailing endangered peoples, the first major attempt to draw public attention to those peoples whose existence is truly marked by the threat of extinction.


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