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World Heritage Sites in Russia
- Kamchatka PeninsulaThe Kamchatka Peninsula stretches 1,250 kilometers into the Pacific from Russia's far eastern edge, a finger of land so remote that it remained closed to…
- Peterhof PalacePeterhof Palace sits at the edge of the Gulf of Finland, its fountains firing without a single pump. Peter the Great built this place not merely as a home…
- YaroslavlYaroslavl sits at the point where the Volga and Kotorosl rivers meet, 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow, and for a few extraordinary months in 1612, it was…
- Kazan KremlinThe Kazan Kremlin sits at the heart of Kazan, Russia, built by order of Ivan the Terrible on the rubble of a Tatar khanate's castle.
- Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg sits at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, and on the 27th of May 1703, Tsar Peter the Great laid its founding stone on an…
- Altai MountainsThe Altai Mountains sit at the point where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan all meet, a convergence zone that has drawn humans, animals, and entire…
- Red SquareRed Square stands at the eastern wall of the Kremlin in the heart of Moscow, a space almost 73,000 square metres in size that has witnessed executions…
- Trinity Lavra of St. SergiusIn 1337, Sergius of Radonezh built a wooden church on Makovets Hill to honor the Holy Trinity. This small structure became the seed for what would grow into…
- Vladimir, RussiaVladimir, Russia, still has buildings standing from the 12th century, stonework old enough to have watched Kiev's power fade and Moscow's rise begin.
- Lake BaikalLake Baikal holds roughly 22 to 23 percent of all the fresh surface water on Earth. That single fact stops most people in their tracks, because the lake sits…
- Saint Basil's CathedralSaint Basil's Cathedral stands at the southern end of Red Square in Moscow, and it looks like nothing else on earth. Russian historian Dmitry Shvidkovsky…
- Wrangel IslandWrangel Island sits astride the 180th meridian in the Arctic Ocean, a remote Russian territory so geographically peculiar that the International Date Line…