Notes, Travelogoues, Travel Tips

So, we want to visit ... Could you give us some advice? and other travel-related questions. You can find useful Do's and Dont's in Russia provided by Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London.

Several illustrated travelogues and travel tips for those who is going to visit Moscow and St.Petersburg in real life are collected on the separate pages.

Travel information report: Russia is provided by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ( Française version). CANADEXPORT ON-LINE surveys market trends in Russia (April 29, 1996). Canadians can benefit from the Canada Direct long-distance telecommunication services. In Moscow, travellers can telephone home and place other long distance overseas calls at low Canadian rates even from hotels.

The interesting collection of 15 e-mail messages from Moscow written by Prof. Michael Berlin in March - May, 1995 (comments: mjberlin@bu.edu). He said about his Moscow Journal archive:"I hope the articles are helpful for more than tourism, and can also shed some light on social attitudes toward political, economic and cultural developments in Russia during the time that I was there".

William Heusmann's well-illustrated diary. He writes at the beginning: "For three weeks in May [1996], I experienced Russian language, culture, history, and everyday life as few tourists ever do. This site will attempt to convey my impressions of the former Soviet Union at this time of great change and uncertainty. While no expert in Russian affairs, I trust these personal experiences may convey some of the essence of this great land." He provides detailed impressions and excellent photos from a three-week university study tour to St. Petersburg, Minsk, Moscow. All images copyright © 1996 Bill Heusmann (Des Moines, Iowa, USA). Send comments to: genevicius@aol.com

Keith West's illustrated travelogue Across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad contains detailed diary and travel tips. Send comments to Keith West: bkeithw@aol.com

Deb and Nate Lipsen's illustrated description of their "Siberian Experience" in 1995 and their trip to Moscow & St.Petersburg in 1996. Their travelogue features Moscow (August 2-4), Irkutsk (August 5), a Siberian city near the lake Baikal, Listvyanka (August 6-8), a village on the West shore of the Lake Baikal, Ulan-Ude (August 9-12), a city in the East of Siberia, a capital of Buryat Republic, and finally, St.Petersburg (August 13-17). © Copyright 1995 Nathan Lipsen. Email for contacts: nate.lipsen@execnet.com

Jonathan Bone, a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, was a 1994-1995 IREX scholar in Vladivostok. His illustrated notes are entitled "Hidden Treasures in the Russian Far East". He shares by his experience and describes access and conditions at libraries and archives

Notes from Nizhny Novgorod (summer 1994) by Michael Reardon (reardon@teleport.com)

The collection of travelogoues is provided by Rec.Travel Library -- Europe.Russia

Doing Business in Russia: three Americans discuss their experiences doing business in Russia (audio).

A couple of business travel guides:
- Russian Federation Business. Copyright © Columbus Group plc 1996
- Russia: business travel overview. Copyright © 1995 BAEF & LAACC - All Rights Reserved

Russian Banks. The Directory of Banking & Financial Institutions in Russia (published in March 1996). The third edition of that Directory contains information on 1,985 banks in Russia and includes the sensitive map of regions as well as the list of Russian banks grouped by region. Copyright © InterContinental Press, March 1996. Send comments to: icp@wfi.fr

You can look at the Sheremetyevo-2, main international airport in Moscow, its arrivals hall and departures hall. Aeroflot uses 2 main careers: TU-154 and IL-86

A virtual guide for tourists going to visit Russia is provided by Lonely Planet (slow connection).

The Ken Thompson account of the trip to Zhukovski and his fly on a MiG fighter (comments: ken@plan9.att.com ).

Foreign Languages for Travelers will help you to learn some Russian phrases useful for your trip. That site has been created and maintained by Michael C. Martin and by travlang, copyright © 1995. E-mail: president@travlang.com

EARTHWATCH server invites you to Witches and Wood-Goblins of Old Russia (note that team dates and other project logistics are subject to change). If you wish to visit Central Russia in the summer 1996, you can join researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences and help them document age-old customs and rituals from the "well" of folklore tradition in Smolenskaya, Kaluzhskaya and Bryanskaya provinces (200-700 km to the south-west from Moscow). This information is submitted by Louise Brooks (lbrooks@earthwatch.org)

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