In recent years the museums of exotic butterflies have appeared almost in all major Russian cities. And it is grounded, as the nature does not spoil us with bright vivid colors and it would be desirable to look at its wonders. For this purpose there is a "Tropical Paradise" in St. Petersburg, it is a museum where you can see the birth of a butterfly, feed it and buy it.

A visit to the Russian World has to show to the tourists that the representative of the Russian civilization has little to do with cliched character of human bear who wears felt boots (valenki), playing the accordion, drinking vodka and assembles the Kalashnikov.

Four routes are designed for tourists in the Nature Reserve.

Russian Park is a huge recreational area of 200 hectares, opened in the summer of 2014. As conceived by businessman Sergey Efimenko, who invented the Russian Park it should be Russian world in a miniature: all world achievements of national civilization from classical music to Guryev porridge.

What sweets did our great-grandparents eat on holidays? What they were cooked from and how they were served? What are the traditions of tea drinking in Russia? Answers on all questions you can find in one of the historic houses in Zvenigorod near Moscow.

Mammoths are an exclusive wealth of Yakutia, the same as gold and diamonds. The first “officially registered” mammoth’s remains were found in Yakutia back in 1799.

Yakutsk is surrounded by numerous hills. During the Soviet era a day-drift of one of them, near to the Chochur-Muran Mountain, was used as a huge cellar for food storage. In November 2008 a tourist centre – “The Kingdom of Permafrost” - was opened in this cave.

The excursion and tourist centre “Snow Village” is located in the Kirovsk micro-district Kukisvumchorr (“25th kilometer”) at the foot of the eponymous mountain, where the Ski Complex “Kukisvumchorr” is situated.

The house of the merchant Klepikov is extremely important for Surgut, speaking in a Leninist manner: it is not just a museum, but also the town’s only monument of architecture of XIX-XX centuries.

The majority of people in Russia have long associated the industrial city of Tolyatti of Samara Oblast with the AvtoVAZ car factory. Local tourist industry periodically tries to remind to the general public that Tolyatti has the Volga River, yachting, classical music festivals and much more.

The Golden Gate of Vladimir, a precious monument of ancient architecture, not only remains a material symbol of an entire era. This white stone portal opens a kind of a space and time tunnel leading from the modern city to Vladimir of Andrei Bogolyubskiy, and from there, via Kiev and Constantinople, back to history, to Jerusalem and Rome.

There is a small ravine on the road from Vladimir to Bogolyubov. You cannot be mistaken – it is the only one there. The Sungir Ravine was named in honor of the eponymous creek flowing into the Klyazma River. The oldest site of prehistoric man in Central Europe was found in this unremarkable place in 1955, during the extraction of clay for the local brick factory.

The exhibition complex is a place stylized as a Cossack settlement of XVII century. The first thing that catches the eye when one enters the territory is the log pale fence with a watchtower. The museum is divided into three zones - Buryat, Evenki, and Russian.

The temple complex is located in the holy area of Ranzhur near the eponymous rock where the mantra text was discovered more than 200 years ago. It is believed that Buddha himself gave this prayer to the believers; the second place of this kind is located in Nepal. Every day Buddhist monks perform meditation sessions here.

The main tourist lure of the Teletskoye Lake is the incredibly beautiful waterfalls located next to it. The biggest and most popular of them is the Corbu Waterfall, it falls down from a height of more than 12 meters at a few-meter distance from the right shore of the lake, on the Bolshaya Corbu River.

Tigireksky Reserve established in 1999 in the south of the Altai Territory was created for preserving the flora and fauna of the low-mountain and mid-mounatin landscapes of the Altai-Sayan mountain region.

The Saylyugemsky park is adjoined by the cluster of the Silkhemin Nuur National Park from Mongolia; this National Park also protects the places where argali live. The parks have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of cross-border group of argali.

In spring the steppe is covered with a carpet of blooming tulips. They are not as big here as on the bank of Manych, but even undersized tulips give the steppe its extraordinary charm.

The Centre of Wildlife was established in Yashkulsky District of Kalmykia.

St. Sophia in the Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets) has been the main cathedral of the city and Novgorod land for nearly one thousand years.