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Types of rural accommodation how to recognize them, their joys and problems, and how to overcome the customary NO in response to "Do you have rooms available?". [MORE] |
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Yet unsorted photos are piled in this GALLERY |
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Recommended sites about small-town and rural Russia Satellite maps that have most of the region between Moscow & St. Petersburg Central & Eastern Europe & The Baltic:
Russian north-west
A comprehensive compilation
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Bicyle trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow along the main highway (yuk) in August 2007 |
Recommended for a day trip from Moscow. Easy to visit on your way from Staritsa. Lots of inexpensive accommodation starting under $10, especially in the winter.
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The City of Staritsa, RUSSIAN VERSION
Alternative spellings:
Starica, Staritza, Stariza, Staricza....
For accommodation
in Moscow see my
www.cheap-moscow.com
For accommodation
in St. Petersburg see
www.cheap-moscow.com/saint_petersburg.htm
Free guide to accompany you to out-of-the way destinations!
Snejana needs English practice!
An inexpensive room is also available from her and her **noisy** kids to talkative sociable fun people.
Work in progress. Contributions of **organized and ready to add** materials on anything between St. Petersburg and Moscow are greatly welcomed. I'm swamped with drafts, notes, and unprocessed photos of my own and will appreciate only fully edited documents. WRITE
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The hidden agenda is to entice you to my
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Collective Farm Art series of photos. Most are from the 70s, the "stagnation" period under Brezhnev. By some reason I find this period's artifacts comforting. See also my
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Materials that apply to the entire region between Moscow & St. Petersburg are HERE |
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"Winter is the Soul
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www.CapitalTourist.Com
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The road connecting Moscow & St. Petersburg goes through Klin. Also an itinerary that takes you to Staritsa through Sergiev Posad and Dmitrov can easily be made to include Klin. Klin's main attraction is the Tchaikovsky estate.
Note Turbaza Sputnik, a Soviet-era establishment that still has a lot of the period's character and features, as a possible place stay between Klin and Tver.
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Right on the main highway. Planning to stay in Tver? The economic boom has reached this region, and hotel prices skyrocketed. I've thus compiled a list of private apartments that, as of March '05, you could still get for $15-20/night. I visit Tver there regularly and can easily get there from my Staritsa dacha, and you are most welcomed to share with me your Tver-related questions, concerns, or projects.
NB Mednoye ("Coppersmiths"), 30km from Tver towards St. Petersburg. Italian food. Specialization: cheses. Run by an Italian couple who lives on the premises. 8-920-150-0056.
A convenient place for your last overnight stop when travelling from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow. Swamps around Volokolamsk saw some intense fighting in December of 1941, and the area has an extensive network of museums and monuments dedicated to these events. I'll be adding materials or links related to the Great Patriotic War to the Volokolamsk page soon.
Yaropolets, Volokolamsk district
One of first Soviet hydroelectric stations was build there under Lenin's direct patronage. Before the Revolution Yaropolets was a major center of arts and culture. For about $30-50 per night you can stay in a well-preserved old estate that now serves as a sanatorium.
A great place for a major stopover during your travels between Moscow and St. Petersburg. My dacha is near Staritsa on the Volga river. Horse riding, rafting, and caves are among the attractions. My present ploy is to entice you there under the slogan of "Winter is the Soul of Russia".
Nothing touristy in this area, or "zone" as it is designated on maps. Connoisseurs of neglect and decay are invited to the page of Stepurino that is now acquiring sort of a fame thanks to the writing folk I took via the old road from Staritsa to Moscow that passes through through Stepurino, Lotoshino, Volokolamsk, and Istra. The last one is now becoming famous thanks to New Jerusalem.
The last Moscow region town on your way North. Roads, gas, and cold beer in the summer end here.
Rzhev has a reputation of an organized crime capital of the Tver region. The old Russian tradition of mass street fights is reported to be well and alive in this city. Of thing positive please note an ultra-light airplane factory. $10 th. will get you a flying machine that will take you and 300lbs of your possessions away from it all. Their senior engineer promises to teach even the most difficult student to operate their airplane in 35 hours.
A good place to stop if 280km to my dacha turned out too long and hard for you. WW2 memorial and water works are among this city's attractions.
A pleasant touristy place almost on the Moscow to St. Petersburg highway. An old but still navigable road connects Torzhok and Staritsa. A page on the Town of Torzhok is coming up.
Officially famous as a hub of waterways connecting Moscow & St. Petersburg.
Note a small felt boot ("valenki") factory in Vyshny Volochek
Note an antique store in the village of Kholokholenka, 20km to Vyshny Volochek if heading north-west to St. Petersburg, 280km from Moscow
A huge nature reserve and a system of lakes. A Mecca of Russian nature tourism.
Visit is if you enjoy boat rides. Pleasant, active, inexpensive. Interesting from the WW2 point of view. In my mind Ostashkov will always be remembered for a man on a bicycle with a horse in tow that I failed to photograph for the reason of being struck by the surreal quality of the scene.
This city, originally a Viking outpost in the east, is now the center of one of the most economically and socially successful regions of Russia.
Hotel Lubava,
Novgorod region, 50km from Novgorod on the St. Petersburg to Moscow
highway, after Kholokholnya, ....th km of the highway. Recommended not
only to budget travellers (a night + parking + a shot of vodka with a
slice of lemon cost me an equivalent of $10) but also to those capable
of appreciating the old Soviet charm. [More]
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August 28, 2007 For authentic, practical, and
inexpensive souvenirs I recommend an earth ware factory in Pomeranye,
609th kilometer of M10 if travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, on
the right-hand side of the road. Probably about 90th kilometer if
travelling from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A fairly large box full of
things selected for their appeal rather than prices cost me an
equivalent of $50US.
[MAKE A PAGE ON THE THE SAINT-PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW HIGHWAY, ADD HOTEL LUBAVA, CLAY FACTORY, ANTIQUE SHOP NEAR V. VOLOCHEK,....]
Almost a suburb of St. Petersburg. A city build by design yet old enough for its artificial nature to wear out its sharp corners. Recommended to architecture and especially landscape architecture connoisseurs.
... Porcelain factory in Pomeranye, ....th km of the Moscow to St. Petersburg highway