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Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city’s other names were Petrograd and Leningrad. Founded by Emperor Peter the Great on May 27, 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years. Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is Russia’s second largest and Europe’s fourth largest city (by city limit) after Moscow, London and Paris. 4.6 million people live in the city, and over 6 million people live in the city’s vicinity. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural center, and important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It is often described as the most Western European styled city of Russia.

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The Sloventsky Islands are located in the White Sea in northwestern Russia, less than 100 miles from the arctic circle. These islands are famous with their monastery there from 15^th century. The monastery was restored and today the islands’ natural beauty, spiritual significance and weighty history draw tourists of all kinds to their shores.

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The project named Crystal Island has been approved in Moscow. Located on the Nagatino Peninsula, it is only 7.5 km from the Kremlin. At 1500ft (450m) high, the Crystal Island project won’t be the tallest piece of architecture on the planet, but covering 27 million sq ft (2.5 million sq. m) of floor space, it will be gimungeous. For comparison, the Burj Dubai, the structure that holds the record for world’s tallest building (810+m) for the foreseeable future will contain about 3,595,100 sq ft (334,000 m²) when completed. So, the Crystal Island project will have 7.5 times the indoor space.

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The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars that was built to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-62. The basic display areas of the State Hermitage occupy 365 rooms in the Main Museum Complex located in the historic centre of St Petersburg.

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The Bolshoi Ballet, located in Moscow, is one of the oldest Russian ballet companies in existence. The company’s emotional, dramatic style was not popular in the 18th century, but by the late 19th century the Bolshoi style began to influence ballet worldwide.
Take a lover for an experience that lifts you out of the mundane and into the fantastic.
Whether you catch them doing Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre, where the hammer and sickle is still on display, or Spartacus in New York, you will not want the evening to end.

Let the newest generation of ballerinas pull at your heart strings, be dazzled by the opulent costumes and stunning set design, the impossible leaps of the men, the grace of the corps de ballet.

The Great Moscow State Circus was opened on 30th of April 1971. It has been designed and built by a group of the architects and engineers under the leadership of Mr. I.Belopolsky and still today it strikes everyone with its technical possibilities. There wasn‘t and still there isn‘t a similar circus anywhere in the world. Its auditorium represents a 36 meters high amphitheatre consisting of 23 rows totaling to 3400 seats.
Traditional circuses are a rarity in many parts of the world these days, but the Moscow State Circus is one troupe keeping the art form vividly alive. Headquartered at its flagship arena near Red Square, it tours the world for much of the year bewitching audiences with the extraordinary talents of its array of artistes.

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Tours including travel by the Transsiberian Railway during several days give a unique chance to see immense Russian spaciousness with grand rivers and huge forests, to enjoy beautiful view of landscapes.
The Transsiberian Railway gives a unique opportunity to visit several countries at a time: Russia, Mongolia, China and Japan, to enjoy their history and cultural heritage.
The Special Interest Travel Department is ready to consider any requests of yours and elaborate an itinerary accordingly. We are waiting for your requests.

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Sankt Petersburg is located on the delta of the Neva River and the southern edge of Greenland, the bank of Finiiskian gulf. He is most north from the large cities on the planet. The nature of the city is unusual and mysterious, the winter is crude in the spring as well and for the summer- Quixotic. The city center is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Russia’s political and cultural center for 200 years, the city is impressive. It in 1703 year Peter I resolves to frame a capital of Russia that will be amazing on the whole world. This is the “St. Peter and St. Pavel” cathedral to gilded Angel in the flower that is 122 м. Framed up on a swamp near a river, Peter great call – The new city Sankt Petersburg.

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People around the world relax in very different ways. We look at favorite leisure activities in three continents….

Surfing capital of the world
Any sunny day on the coast of Australia you can see hundreds of young people going to the beach. They all share Australia’s national passion-surfing. These soul surfers, as they are often called, practice the sport purely for personal enjoyment and many even find a deeper meaning through involving themselves directly with naturally occurring wave pattern. “My friends and I usually go down to the beach before breakfast in the summer”, says 18-years-old Jerry, “and come home again for dinner”. At weekends it is quite normal to drive hundreds of kilometres to find that “perfect wave”. But in Sidney, the biggest city in Australia, you don’t have that problem-there are thirty-four beaches close to the city centre!

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The Hermitage Museum is Russia’s best gallery of world art, one of the most prominent art museums in the world and definitely the main tourist attraction of St. Petersburg. The museum was founded in 1764 when Catherine the Great purchased a collection of 255 paintings from the German city of Berlin. Today, the Hermitage boasts over 2.7 million exhibits and displays a diverse range of art and artifacts from all over the world and from throughout history (from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century Europe).

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