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Days like theseOur recommendations for the perfect holiday in RussiaRussia in LuxuryGroup Tour8 days from £2195 pp twin-shareDates: VariousExperience Russia in luxury withaccommodation in hand-picked5-star hotels and 1st class traintravel in between. Travel incomfort and style as you discoverthe highlights and high life ofMoscow and St Petersburg, visitingiconic sites such as Red Squareand the Hermitage. Extras on theitinerary such as a vodka factorytour, banya visit, Russian cookingmaster class and food tasting willreveal traditional Russian culture,allowing you to gain an authenticexperience of this enigmaticcountry.Highlights ofKaliningrad Group Tour4 days from £850 pp twin-shareDates: 28 Jun – 1 Jul 2013Located on the Baltic Sea betweenPoland and Lithuania, KaliningradOblast is the northern part ofwhat was once East Prussia. Theterritory is now home to mostlyRussian-speaking people, but manytraces of German culture are stillevident in the cities and ruins ofPrussian castles. Visit Baltiysk,home of Russia’s Baltic Fleet, theworld’s only amber mine and afascinating bird ringing stationon the stunning Curonian Spit,escorted by our brilliant local guideOlga Danilova, who can be seen onMichael Palin’s New Europe.Sayan Ring Group Tour15 days from £3420 pp twin-shareDates: 17 – 31 Aug 2013Travel overland by train fromMoscow to Krasnoyarsk andbegin your Sayan Ring adventure.Travelling on our ethnographictour, you will discover a vast andbeautiful land of rolling steppesand snow-capped mountainssteeped in cultural traditions fromShamanism to throat singing. Feellike a true pioneer as you stay intraditional yurt camps where youwill be received according to localcustoms and entertained withfolkloric performances beforeuncovering ancient sites and sacredmonuments strewn across thedramatic and unspoilt landscape.Severnaya ZemlyaMOSCOWBarents SeaMurmanskMonchegorskNovaya ZemlyaKara SeaArcticVorkutaNoril'skVolgaOb'YeniseyRUSSIALenaLeptev SeaLenaAldanYakutskNovosibirskiyeOstrovaSeverodvinsk Archangel KozhvaFINLANDTroitsko-PechorskNoyabr'skPetrozavodskSyktyvkar SurgutSt. PetersburgNizhnevartovskVologdaSerovBologoye Yaroslavl' Perm'Ob'AngaraTyumen'KrasnoyarskUst'-ilimskTomskMoscowTulaKazan' YekaterinburgNizhniyOufaOmsk Novosibirsk Kansk BratskKaliningrad NovgorodAbakanL. BaykalKursk Voronezh OrenburgIrkutsk ChitaNovotroitskBiyskSaratovVolgogradKAZAKHSTANMONGOLIARostovna-DonuAstrakhan’Black Sea CaspianSeaSea of Petropavlovsk-KamchatskiyOkhotskBlagoveshchenskKomsomol'sk-na-amureKhabarovskCHINAAmurVladivostokOceanMagadanOceanPacificRussia - Perfect ForOver thirty years on from our first foray into Russia it never fails to enthral.Perfect for culture vultures, with its grandiose cities of Moscow and StPetersburg, Russian aficionados will also find the soul of the countryside totheir liking. Military enthusiasts should include visits to the 13 hero cities ofthe Soviet Union, spending some time in Volgograd (Stalingrad). Lovers ofnature appreciate a cruise on the legendary Volga River, gazing at shimmeringforests of silver birch and pastoral countryside.1917Bolsheviks, ledby Lenin, seizegovernment1942-43Soviet Union defeats theNazi advance at the Battleof Stalingrad1955Warsaw Pactestablished1988Gorbachevreplaces Gromykoas president2000Vladimir Putinsucceeds BorisYeltsin as President1914Russia fights alongsideBritain and Francein WWI1918-22Civil War between the RedRussians and the anti-Communist White Russians;Soviet Union formed1950Soviet Union andChina sign 30-yearalliance treaty1961Yuri Gagarin makesfirst manned spaceflight1991The Soviet Unioncollapses2006Rouble becomesconvertiblecurrency75Call 020 7666 1244 | www.regentholidays.co.uk | visit your local travel agent