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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
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Bicyle trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow along the main highway (yuk) in August 2007 |
Small towns and villages between Moscow & St. Petersburg, the Golden Ring, the Russian North, and a few other places. Getting there. Where to stay. Photos. Maps. Links. Based mostly on my own trips. The project was an attempt to encourage travel between Moscow & St. Petersburg, with a stopover at my dacha near Staritsa, Tver region.
Between Moscow & St. Petersburg (Highway No. ..)
SOON!! Khimki, Zelenograd, Solnechnogorsk ("Sun City").
Non-descript suburbs of Moscow. A touristy tourist will pass through these with a profound lack of interest. The vast majority of the country's population live in one of these neither/nor type places. A must to visit if you want to see how a typical inhabitant of this land lives.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.
SOON!! Emmaus
Tver
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: cheeses. Run by an Italian couple who lives on the premises. 8-920-150-0056.
Torzhok (Torjok)
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.Vyshny Volochek
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
Valday
A huge nature reserve and a system of lakes. A Mecca of Russian nature tourism.Novgorod-the-Great & the area
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]
[MAKE A PAGE ON THE THE SAINT-PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW HIGHWAY, ADD HOTEL LUBAVA, CLAY FACTORY, ANTIQUE SHOP NEAR V. VOLOCHEK,....]
Gatchina
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
Novorizhskoye ("New Riga") Hightway (No. ....)
Krasnogorsk
SOON!! Military technology museum.Istra & New Jerusalem
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.Volokolamsk
The first "country" town north west from 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.Zubtsov
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.Rzhev (German: Rshew)
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.
Between Leningradskoye and Novorizhskoye
Lotoshino
The last Moscow region town on your way North. Roads, gas, and cold beer in the summer end here.Stepurino
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.Staritsa (Starica)
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".
The "Golden Ring" and the area
Sergiev Posad
Easy to get to from Moscow. The first "Golden Ring" city on your way from Moscow going clockwise. Not too lake to turn to Dmitrov, then go through Klin, and then by the Monastery of Joseph-of-Volokolamks through Stepurino to Staritsa, where I wanted to entice you to start with, especially in the off-season under the slogan of "Winter is the Soul of Russia". One practical value of my Sergiev Posad page is a compehensive list of hostels. Also lots of photos taken in February 2005 to glorify the "Winter is the Soul of Russia" concept.Khotkovo
A small town with a large population of artists and intellectuals who escaped Moscow in the late 80s or early 90s.Abramtsevo
Vologda...
Other places sort of between Moscow & St. Petersburg
Ostashkov
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.
Beyond St. Petersburg going North
Presenting
Alexandra Goryashko,
an expert in the Russian north, and especially the White Sea.
Bio sketch Publications
Messages for Alexandra in English can be sent to my e-mail.
Staraya Ladoga
Now we are beyond St. Petersburg and moving around the Ladoga Lake on our way to Archangelsk.. Staraya Ladoga may be considered Russia's first capital, the role later played by Novgorod-the-Great, then Kiev, and then, when things got real bad, by mean and crass Moscow and a monstrosity of a city St. Petersburg.Onezhskoye Lake
Medvezhya Gora ("Bear Hill")
Poyakonda
The birthplace of Benedictus Yerofeyev, made famous by his Moscow-Petuskki novel. Biological outpost of the Moscow State University.Other places, usually added to this list because I have some personal knowledge, interest, or connections there
South from Moscow
Moscow to Chisinau by car
This deja vu trip to Marisha, who provides services similar to mine in Moldova, has been postponed and may or may not yet happen.Ryazan
A recommended Russian Misery Tourism and Russian Women destination.
Siberia
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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My
hidden agenda is to entice you to my
dacha near Staritsa
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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
of Russia" |
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www.CapitalTourist.Com
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