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Top Attractions of Russia

This table contains a list of Russia's attractions which we have rated³.
Due to the obvious hazards of the travel to Eastern Caucasus, we excluded Republics of Daghestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya from this list. We sincerely hope the situation will improve and we are planning to include these regions as soon as it becomes possible.

Code	Administrative region of Russian Federation	History and Culture	Nature	Industry and Transport
01	Republic of Adyghe		Western Caucasus
02	Republic of Bashkortostan		Southern Urals (including Bashkir State Reserve) Kapova Cave
03	Republic of Buryatia	Buddhist Datsans of Buryatia	Eastern Sayan Mountains (including Tunka Range) Lake Baikal Trans-Baikal Mountains
04	Republic of Altai		Altai Mountains (including Lake Teletskoe, Altai State Reserve, Katun Range)
07	Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic		Mount Elbrus Region
08	Republic of Kalmykia		Black Lands
09	Karachai-Circassian Republic	Arkhyz	Dombai and Teberda State Reserve
10	Republic of Karelia	Kizhi Island of Valaam Belomorsk petroglyphs	Lakes and rocks of North Karelia Kivach State Reserve Island of Valaam	Belomorsk-Baltic Canal
11	Republic of Komi		Sub-Polar and North Urals and virgin forests of North of European Russia (including Yugyd-Va National Park and Pechora-Ilych National Reserve)
12	Republic of Mari El	Kozmodem'yansk
13	Republic of Mordovia
14	Republik of Sakha (Yakutiya)		Lena Stolby Lena Delta Mountains of North-East Siberia (including Chersky Range)
15	Republic of North Ossetia - Alania	Dargavs Kurtatin canyon	Central Caucasus (including North Ossetia State Reserve)
16	Republic of Tatarstan	Kazan' Bolgar Sviyazhsk Elabuga		Kazan' subway
17	Republic of Tuva		Ubsunur Hollow Todzha Hollow (including Azas State Reserve)
18	Udmurt Republic
19	Republic of Khakassia	Khakassia archeological monuments	Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains
21	Chuvash Republic
22	Altay Territory		Altai Mountains (North)
23	Krasnodar Territory	Novorossiysk	Black Sea Coast of Caucasus Western Caucasus (including Krasnaya Polyana, Fanagoriysky Caves)
24	Krasnoyarsk Territory	Eniseysk	Krasnoyarsk Stolby Taymyr and Putorana Plato
25	Primorsky Territory	Vladivostok	Sikhote-Alin' Mountains Japan Sea Coast and Far East State Reserve
26	Stavropol' Territory	Caucasian Spa cities (Pyatigorsk, Yessentuki, Kislovodsk, Zheleznogorsk)	Western Caucasus
27	Khabarovsk Territory		Okhotsk Sea Coast and Islands
28	Amur Region
29	Arkhangelsk Region	Arkhangelsk and Malye Korely Solovetsky Islands Sol'vychegodsk Kargopol' Kenozer'e National Park	Solovetsky Islands Pinega State Reserve Kenozer'e National Park
30	Astrakhan' Region	Astrakhan'	Volga Delta Russia Deserts and Salt Lakes (including Lake Baskunchak)
31	Belgorod Region
32	Bryansk Region		Southern Russia mixed and broadveaved forests
33	Vladimir Region	Vladimir and Bogolyubovo Suzdal' and Kideksha Aleksandrov Yur'ev - Pol'sky Gorokhovets	Meshchyora	Meshchyora narrow gauge railways
34	Volgograd Region	Volgograd		Volgograd high-speed tram
35	Vologda Region	Vologda Kirillov Ferapontovo Belozersk Ustyuzhna Tot'ma Veliky Ustyug
36	Voronezh Region	Voronezh	Divnogor'e
37	Ivanovo Region	Plyos Yur'evets Palekh		Tyoza
38	Irkutsk Region	Irkutsk	Lake Baikal Western Sayan Mountains (including Tofalaria) Cis-Baikal Mountains	Krugobaikal'skaya Railway
39	Kaliningrad Region	Kaliningrad	Courland Spit
40	Kaluga Region	Kaluga Borovsk Polotnyany Zavod
41	Kamchatka Territory		Central Kamchatka Volcanoes (including Geiser Valley and Kronotsky State Reserve) Southern Kamchatka Volkanoes (including Mutnovskaya Sopka) Komandor islands
42	Kemerovo Region		Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains
43	Kirov Region
44	Kostroma Region	Kostroma Nerekhta Soligalich
45	Kurgan Region
46	Kursk Region
47	Leningrad Region	Schlisselburg Gatchina Ivangorod Vyborg Konevets Tikhvin Staraya Ladoga Wooden architecture of Podporozh'e District	Southern Karelia and Lake Ladoga	Old Ladoga and New Ladoga Canals
48	Lipetsk Region
49	Magadan Region		Larch forests of North-Eastern Russia	Kolyma Highway
50	Moscow Region	Sergiev Posad Kolomna Zaraysk Dmitrov and Nikolo-Peshnoshsky Monastery Volokolamsk and surroundings Arkhangelskoe Zvenigorod New Jerusalem Monastery Mozhaysk and Borodino battlefield	Meshchyora	Imeni Moskvy Canal Meshchyora narrow gauge railways Kubinka Monino
51	Murmansk Region		Kola Peninsula Mountains (including Khibiny and Lovozero Tundras) White Sea Coast (including Kandalaksha State Reserve)
52	Nizhny Novgorod Region	Nizhny Novgorod Makar'evo Balakhna		Nizhny Novgorod Subway
53	Novgorod Region	Novgorod and surroundings Staraya Russa Valday	Valday
54	Novosibirsk Region			Novosibirsk Subway
55	Omsk Region
56	Orenburg Region
57	Orel Region	Spasskoe-Lutovinovo	Southern Russia mixed and broadveaved forests
58	Penza Region	Tarkhany
59	Perm Territory	Khokhlovka Solikamsk Usol'e Cherdyn'	Kungur Northern Urals
60	Pskov Region	Pskov and surroundings Izborsk Pechory Porkhov Pushkin State Reserve
61	Rostov Region	Starocherkasskaya	Lower River Don and Don Mouth
62	Ryazan Region	Ryazan' and Solotcha Kasimov	Meshchyora	Meshchyora narrow gauge railways
63	Samara Region	Samara Syzran'	Samara Bend of River Volga	Samara subway
64	Saratov Region	Saratov
65	Sakhalin Region		Southern Sakhalin Kuril Islands
66	Sverdlovsk Region	Ekaterinburg Verkhotur'e	Northern Urals (inkluding Denezhkin Kamen')	Ekaterinburg subway Alapaevsk narrow gauge railroad
67	Smolensk Region	Smolensk and surroundings Vyaz'ma and Khmelita
68	Tambov Region
69	Tver' Region	Staritsa Torzhok Ostahkov and Nilova Pustyn'	Lake Seliger Volga Source	Vyshny Volochek Water Way
70	Tomsk Region	Tomsk
71	Tula Region	Tula Yasnaya Polyana Kulikovo battlefield and Epifan'
72	Tyumen Region	Tyumen' Tobol'sk
73	Ul'yanovsk Region
74	Chelyabinsk Region		Southern Urals (including Zyuratkul' National Park, Taganai National Park)
75	Transbaikal Territory	Buddhist Datsans	Chara Sandy Desert Trans-Baikal Mountains
76	Yaroslavl' Region	Yaroslavl' Pereslavl'-Zalessky Uglich Rostov Borisoglebsky Tutaev		Talitsy
77	Moscow	Moscow		Moscow Subway
78	Saint-Petersburg	Saint-Petersburg and surroundings (Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Lomonosov, Kronstadt)		Saint-Petersburg Subway
79	Jewish Autonomous Region
83	Nenets Autonomous District
86	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District
87	Chukchi Autonomous District		Vrangel Island Bering Sea Coast
89	Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District			Salekhard-Nadym Railway (Construction Project 501)
-	Continuous objects		River Volga (with tributaries Oka and Kama) River Severnaya Dvina River Don River Ob' River Enisey River Lena River Amur	Transsiberian Railway Baikal-Amur Railway
Code	Administrative region of Russian Federation	History and Culture	Nature	Industry and Transport

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Compiled by: Yaroslav Blanter, Il'ya Buyanovskii, Dmitri Fokin, Denis Kabanov, Igor' Kerbikov, Volodya Kondrat'ev, Yuri Mendeleev, Vasili Shelemin (eeyore).
Last updated: 16.03.08.
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