Russia
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Practical Information
Area: 17 075 400 km² (6 592 850 miles²)
Capital: Moscow. Population: 8.3 million
Population: 141.5 million
Currency: Rouble (RUB) = 100 kopeks
Government: Republic since 1991.
Tipping: Hotels in Moscow and other large cities include a 10 to 15% service charge. Otherwise 10% is customary.
Time zone: The Russian Federation is divided into 11 time zonesKaliningrad: GMT + 2 (GMT +3 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Moscow, St Petersburg, Astrakhan: GMT + 3 (GMT +3 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Izhevsk and Samara: GMT + 4 (GMT +5 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Perm’, Ekaterinburg, Surgut: GMT + 5 (GMT +6 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Omsk and Novosibirsk: GMT + 6 (GMT + 7 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October Abakan, Norilsk, Tura: GMT + 7 (GMT +8 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Bratsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude: GMT + 8 (GMT +9 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October) Mirnyy, Tynda, Yakutsk: GMT + 9 (GMT +10 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk: GMT + 10 (GMT +11 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Magadan, Chirskiy: GMT + 11 (GMT + 12 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)Anadyr, Kamchatskiy, Petropavlosk: GMT + 12 (GMT +13 from the last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October)
Languages: Russian
Cities
- Saint-Petersburg, 330 hotels
- Mar’ina Roshcha, 184 hotels
- Moscow, 114 hotels
- Yekaterinburg, 78 hotels
- Kaliningrad, 37 hotels
- Sochi, 41 hotels
- Chelyabinsk, 22 hotels
- Kazan', 33 hotels
- Nizhniy Novgorod, 20 hotels
- Rostokino, 19 hotels
- Krasnodar, 18 hotels
- Irkutsk, 18 hotels
- Vladivostok, 16 hotels
- Perm, 13 hotels
- Khabarovsk, 12 hotels
- Novosibirsk, 13 hotels
- Rostov-on-Don, 20 hotels
- Malaya Yablonovka, 10 hotels
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 9 hotels
- Kostroma, 9 hotels
- Saratov, 9 hotels
- Kuibyshev, 23 hotels
- Astrakhan', 9 hotels
- Tomsk, 9 hotels
- Murmansk, 8 hotels
- Petrozavodsk, 8 hotels
- Omsk, 8 hotels
- Krasnaya Polyana, 7 hotels
- Vladimir, 7 hotels
- Vyborg, 6 hotels
Additional descriptions
Russia: Social customs
It is customary to shake hands when greeting someone. Company or business gifts are well received. Each region has its own characteristic mode of dress. Conservative wear is suitable for most places andRead more the seasonal weather should always be borne in mind. Smoking is acceptable unless stated otherwise. Avoid ostentatious displays of wealth; it is advisable to keep expensive jewellery, watches and cameras out of sight and take precautions against pickpocketing.Photography: It is prohibited to take photographs of any military installation and/or establishments or sites of strategic importance. Failure to abide by this could result in police arrest.
Russia: Food and local specialties
The kind of food visitors will eat from day to day depends on which city they are visiting and the time of year. Breakfast is often similar to that eaten in Scandinavian countries, with cold meats, boiledRead more eggs and bread served with Russian tea. For the midday and evening meal the food is often more traditional, again depending on the region. Things to know: City-centre bars close around midnight. The national specialties are: Kasha (porridge) is a staple breakfast dish, made with milk and oats, buckwheat or semolina. Blini (small pancakes filled with caviar, fish, melted butter or sour cream). Ponchiki (hot sugared doughnuts). Pirozhky (fried rolls with different fillings, usually meat). Borshch, a beetroot soup served hot with sour cream. Pelmeni (meat dumplings). Chai (sweet tea served without milk). Vodka (often flavoured and coloured with herbs and spices such as zubrovka (a kind of grass), ryabinovka (steeped with rowan-tree berries), starka (dark, smooth, aged vodka) and pertsovka (with hot pepper). Posolskaya, Stolichnaya and Rossiskaya are popular brands. Krushon (cold ‘punch’, champagne, brandy and summer fruit are poured into a hollowed watermelon and chilled for several hours). Nalivka (sweet liqueur made with fruit or berries). Nastoika is a fortified wine made of herbs, leaves, flowers, fruit and roots of plants with medicinal properties.
Regions
- Moscow hotels, 265 hotels
- Sankt-Peterburg hotels, 267 hotels
- Krasnodarskiy Kray hotels, 68 hotels
- Sverdlovskaya Oblast’ hotels, 65 hotels
- Kaliningradskaya Oblast’ hotels, 40 hotels
- Chelyabinsk Oblast hotels, 30 hotels
- Respublika Tatarstan hotels, 26 hotels
- Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’ hotels, 23 hotels
- Irkutskaya Oblast’ hotels, 22 hotels
- Leningradskaya Oblast' hotels, 21 hotels
Top places
Hotels
- Novotel Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Mel'kisarovo
- Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel, St. Petersburg
- Holiday Inn Samara, Samara
- Red Zarya Hotel, Mar'ina Roshcha
- Korston Hotel Moscow, Moscow
- Hotel Gallery, Mar'ina Roshcha
- Marco Polo Presnja Hotel, Moscow
- Park Inn Sadu Moscow, Mar'ina Roshcha
- Radisson Royal Hotel, Rostokino
- REVAL HOTEL SONYA, St. Petersburg
- Corinthia Hotel St Petersburg, St. Petersburg
- Golden Apple Boutique Hotel, Moscow
- Milan Hotel Moscow, Mar'ina Roshcha
- Petro Palace Hotel, St. Petersburg
- Bega Hotel, Moscow
- Sokos Hotel Vasilievsky, St. Petersburg
- Nevsky Forum, St. Petersburg
- Novotel St Petersburg Centre, St. Petersburg
- St Petersburg, St. Petersburg
- Park Inn Pribaltiskaya Hotel, St. Petersburg
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