Unknown and remote Siberia? This guidebook is intended to make it well-known and close to you. Learn about regions and places, sightseeing, cuisine, traditions, holidays and places to go out. Start exploring Siberia from here.
Altai is a unique, fascinating and mysterious land situated on the border of 4 countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. Altai is a region of beautiful mountains, glaciers and waterfalls. Many people believe that this place was made especially for tourism. You can make alpinism tours to the peaks of Chuysky mountain ridge, take part in rafting on Katun river, go trekking or horse riding in Altai expanses. Those who dream to have rest, relax and restore their health can visit the best health centers of Russia in Belokuriha and tourist centers of Chemal and Aya lake.
If you want to feel amazing power of nature, to plunge into the world of endless beauty, to get rid of the city fuss, Baikal is a perfect place for your dreams to become true. There is no other place in the world which can be compared to Baikal lake. It is a genuine pearl of Siberia.
Baikal offers you a great variety of leisure opportunities. You can have rest in a relaxing atmosphere on one of the tourist centers or enter the world of adventures and choose an active tour. Ascend the Chersky Peak, crossing the lake in dogsledging in winter, jeep tours to the sacred places of Olkhon island, cruises, travel along the coast by the Circum-Baikal old steam train - all these pearls in the necklace of brilliant tourist opportunities of Baikal lake.
Evenkia is a land full of paradoxes. Although this is a place where the Tunguska event happened in 1908, Evenkia is a geographical centre of Russian Federation, the world famous Putorana Plateau is located here, only few people can recognize this region on the map. Just several devotees of taiga adventures and experts in Siberian nature can dab their finger and say: “That is Evenkia!”
The location of the Kemerovo region is unique: it is situated near the continental center, on a joint of the Western and Eastern Siberia, almost equally spaced from eastern and western frontiers of the country, takes a median place between Moscow and Vladivostok. The region is also known as Kuzbass (Kuznetsk Coal Basin). The leading role in the economy of the Kemerovo region belongs to an industrial complex of digging and processing of coal and iron ore. But the Kemerovo region is not only industry, but also the rich nature. Mountain Shoria is an amazing country in southern Kuzbass. It’s covered by a giant amphitheater of mountains: the Kuznetsk Alatau and northeastern Altai. A favorable combination of beautiful landscape and unique tectonics makes this region “a skiing Mecca”. The most popular attraction in Kuzbass is the ski resort Sheregesh.
Khakassia is a home of old people Dingling, country of green steppes, healing salt lakes and mysterious ancient monuments, situated in the south of Eastern Siberia. It is a territory which is full of unique landscapes and mysterious Khakassian cultural peculiarities, forming an ethnic-natural union which attracts tourists from all over the world.
Khakassia offers a range of tourist and recreational opportunities. So even a demanding tourist will be satisfied with one's journey around Khakassia. You will be able to see archaeological monuments (burial mounds, ruins of ancient cities and pagan stelae), do alpine skiing in Sayanogorsk ski resorts, visit health centers and recreational places.
The giant region, located between 85 and 50 parallel, combines several natural zones and cultural areals: you can see here snowy arctic tundra, thick taiga, green meadows and high mountain ridges. Powerful Yenisei river, marvelous rock complex Stolby, majestic peaks of Ergaki mountain ridge, forests which keep the mystery of Tunguska event, lake Vivi - it is yet not the full list of what you can see in Krasnoyarsk region. It is a perfect place for active and cultural tourism. Horse riding, rafting on fast Siberian rivers, climbing mountain peaks, tours in nature reserves, folklore performances - all this is waiting for a tourist who decided to visit the center of Siberia - Krasnoyarsk region.
Traveling by train and passing the Ural mountains, tourists from the European part of Russia come to Western Siberia, the center of which is without any doubt the Novosibirsk region.
Being surrounded by Siberian taiga and Kazakh steppes, Novosibirsk Oblast became a palette, where various nature paints mixed, creating the region of grateful tourist possibilities and unique landscapes.The northern part of the region is covered with forests, which are gradually changing to steppes. Presence of several nature zones is a typical feature of the Oblast. There are few mountains in the region - only separate mountains, spurs of the Altai Mountains and Salairsky mountain ridge. All the rest territory is a plane.
The northernmost point of Eurasia, Cape Chelyuskin, the land of permafrost and the "Norilsk Nickel", the kingdom of reindeers, Nganasan, Nenets, Dolgan indigenous people. Between the mountains, endless tundra, surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, the Polar Circle lies. Three centuries ago this icy region looked like in ancient times, the unknown and mysterious one. Wild northern expanses invite by their romance more and more travelers. Only the bravest come here, to see the endless mouth of the River Yenisey, to visit the legendary Plateau Putorana, to learn the culture of north indigenous people. And to throw down a challenge to the frost, to see the northern lights and midnight sun, to eat sliced raw fish.
Tomsk Oblast is a genuinely Siberian region, a kingdom of well-trodden paths and mysterious mashes, wonderful land not frightened animals and century-old cedars. It's freak with numerous rivers and hidden under the cover of wood mysteries of ancient Samoyedic peoples. Impassable taiga forest is a calling card of the region. Tomsk Oblast is covered even not with the ”sea”, but with “green ocean” of taiga. It's also the land of oil and gas.
Tuva republic is a unique region in the south of Siberia, the land of endless steppes and unusual history. People who come to Tuva make a journey to another time. Beautiful colors of culture and nature form an amazing combination, making Tuva republic a tempting place for active traveling.
Getting to Tuva, the person gets to the heart of Asia, in its geographical center. This mouthwatering rhythm of its heartbeat is felt in a trance of throat singing Khoomei; shamanic rituals, full of sacrament; unearthly steppe landscapes; traveling to old worshipping places. All these amazing coloures of culture and nature merge into a fantstic palette, turning Tuva to the perfect destination for an active holiday. Swimming in healing lakes, rafting on tuvinian rivers, breath-taking jeep- and motorbike safaris in Tuvan steppes are waiting for the adventurers in Tuva.
One of the most attractive things in Tuva is ethnographic tourism. If you have not seen the collection of Scythian gold, not met with shamans, not stayed in real Tuvan yurts - you haven't been to Tuva at all.