News – Tourism & Leisure in Russia

JOURNEY TO THE POLE

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:33:00 +0000

THE ATOMIC ICEBREAKER 50 LET POBEDY MADE A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE WITH 121 PASSENGERS ON BOARD. The tourists came from North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The trip lasted 11 days. The ship travelled from Murmansk, near the Frantz Joseph archipelago, to the North Pole and back. This year, Atomfl ot will conduct fi ve such cruises to the Pole. With tickets in high demand, the main customers are foreign tourists from Europe and Asia. Even though the cheapest
tickets cost over $16,000, they are sold out a year in advance.

AROUND THE WORLD

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:29:41 +0000

The American operator TCS World Travel has organized a round-the-world tour with stops in Russia for 85 affl uent travellers. After starting in Seattle, tourists will see Kamchatka, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Buryatia and Lake Baikal, Ulan-Bator and the Gobi desert, Reykjavik, Greenland, and fi nish their trip in
Boston. The tour will take almost a month.
The special aircraft features 85 handcrafted leather armchairs, equipped with multimedia systems. The seats unfold into full-size beds.
Tourists are also offered dishes cooked by master chefs. The cost of the tour starts from $105,000.

CONNECTING THE SHORES

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The Crimea bridge was opened on May 16. With a length of 19 km, it is the longest bridge in Russia. It connects continental Russia with the Crimean peninsula. Since March 2014, after the reunifi cation of Crimea with Russia, the main transportation route across the Kerch strait was by ferry. The cost of construction was $3.7 billion. The opening of the bridge rapidly increased the fl ow of tourists
to the peninsula. Over just the fi rst six days, more than 276 cars with tourists drove over the bridge.

THE NORTHERN NOVOTEL

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:15:52 +0000

The first four-star hotel has opened in Arkhangelsk, the capital of Pomorye. Novotel-Arkhangelsk hotel, with its 89 rooms, is the first project of the Accor group in a city with under one million residents. It is located on the bank of the Northern Dvina river. Guests may enjoy the river views thanks to panoramic windows. The hotel’s infrastructure includes two conference rooms, the biggest restaurant in town seating 400 people, a fitness centre with a pool, Arkhangelsk and a business area.

GREAT MATCHES FOR THE FANS

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:52:01 +0000

THE RUSSIAN TEAM HAD THE TOURNAMENT’S BEST DEFENSE, ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF 60 MATCHES OUT OF 64. This FIFA ranking is cited on the official World Cup website, and is based on the following fi gure: 259 clearances, dispossessions and saves. Russia’s Denis Cheryshev, who scored four goals, took third place among top scorers according to the “goal+pass” system. The Brazilian team was recognized best in offence, with 292 attacks. Spain was best in assists (3,120), and the most effective team was Belgium, with 14 scored goals.
“The tournament has been very successful, the stadiums are fabulous, the atmosphere in the stands is very good. But, most importantly, there are so many beautiful matches,” said the French World champion and European champion Laurent Blanc.

A TATTOO WITH A ZABIVAKA

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:44:48 +0000

Foreign tourists took home tattoos with the symbol of the World Cup. It turns out, it wasn’t enough for fans to buy a traditional ushanka (fur hat with ear-fl aps) as a souvenir, or a matryoshka, or the
fi gurine of the World Cup mascot Zabivaka, or a magnet.
The latest trend is to take home memories by putting the symbol of the championship on your skin. Owners of tattoo salons on Arbat Street were pleased to see three or four foreign customers a day.

LOVE FOR RUSSIAN ROLLER-COASTERS

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:42:54 +0000

About 800 foreign tourists visited the Sochi Theme Park during the World Cup daily. The park’s extreme rides were the most popular ones. Foreign tourists frequently asked why roller-coasters are called “American hills” when the rest of the world calls them “Russian hills”? According to a married couple from Peru, “Russian hills” turned out to be scarier than expected, but they enjoyed it just as much as they enjoyed a football match. They proclaimed the Russian roller-coaster “real Russian extreme”.

HALLO MOSKAU!

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:35:44 +0000

A German pensioner, Hubert Wirth, arrived at the World Cup driving a 1936 Lanz Bulldog tractor. He had covered 2,500 kilometers in one month. Hubert says that he drove on good roads that were equal in quality to German roads. He hooked up a trailer shaped like a beer barrel to the tractor, and adorned it with a sign, “Hallo Moskau!” (Hello, Moscow!).

MILLIONS FROM FANS MONEY

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:30:46 +0000

OVER THE FIRST FIVE DAYS OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2018, FOREIGN FANS spent more than $40 million on their VISA cards. The most generous of them were fans from the United States, China and Mexico. Tourists from the Kingdom of Tonga spent less than others. Most of the money was spent on hotels, stylish clothes, restaurants and cafes. The average tab was $58. It was recorded that people spent the most in the first days of the competition in Moscow, $27.4 million. In St. Petersburg, credit card holders spent more than $8 million, and in Sochi, $1.7 million. Kazan followed with a grand total of $1.1 million spent on purchases, and Yekaterinburg, $700,000.

HALF A CENTURY LEGEND

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St. Petersburg. Over a million people attended the Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails) festival for high school graduates. The festival, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, has become world-famous as one of the symbols of Russia’s northern capital. A large-scale multimedia show, a concert and a dazzling fi reworks show were organized on the Neva. The festival culminated in the appearance of a brigantine under scarlet sails. According to tradition, a Swedish sail-boat, Tre Kronor, played the part of the boat in Alexander Grin’s novella The Scarlet Sails.