Russia

 

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Overview

• Population: 145.5 million
  
• Nationality: Russian
• Official Language: Russian
  
• Capital: Moscow
  
• National Day: June 12
  
• World Heritage Sites: See the best of these sites in
  

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Cheboksary

• Chuvash National Museum

Kaliningrad

• Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum
• Museum of the World Ocean
• Museum of Glass

Kaluga

• Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics

Kazan

• Museum of Illusions
• The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

Kirillov

• Kirillo Monastery

Monino

• Central Air Force Museum

Moscow

• Central Armed Forces Museum
• Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
• Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
• Kremlin Armoury Museum
• Moscow Kremlin Museums
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
• Museum of Cosmonautics
• Museum of Russian Impressionism
• Museum of Soviet Arcade Museums
• Museum of the Great Patriotic War
• Orlov Paleontological Museum
• Politechnic Museum
• Pushkin Museum
• Russian State Literature Museum
• State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia
• State Darwin Museum
• State Historical Museum Moscow
• St Basil’s Cathedral
• Tagansky Protected Command Point
• Tretyakov Gallery
• Tsaritsyno Museum
• Vernadsky State Geological Museum

Novosibirsk

• Central Siberian Geological Museum
• Museum for Railway Technology
• Novosibirsk State Art Museum

Perm

• Perm Museum of Contemporary Art

Pokrov

• Chocolate Museum

Rostov

• Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship
• Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts
• Rostovskiy Kreml Museum
• Tanais Archeological Museum

Saint  Petersburg

• Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum
• Central Naval Museum
• Erarta Museum
• Faberge Museum
• Heritage Museum
• KunstKamera
• Menshikov Palace
• Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps
• Museum of the History of St Petersburg
• National Pushkin Museum St Petersburg
• Russian Museum of Ethnography
• State Museum of the History of Religion
• State Museum of the Political History of Russia
• State Museum Saint Isaac’s Cathedral
• State Russian Museum
• State Russian Museum. St Michael’s Castle
• State Russian Museum. Stroganov Palace
• St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
• Tsarskoe Selo State Museum
• Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Saransk

• Museums of Saransk

Saratov

• Radishchev Art Museum
• Saratov Regional Museum of Local History

Taganrog

• Birth house of Anton Chekov

Tarkhany

• Tarkhany Museum

Ulan-Ude

• History Museum of the city of Ulan-Ude
• Geological Museum

Vladivostok

• Arsen’yev Museum
• Military and Historical Museum of the Pacific Fleet
• Vladivostok Fortress

Volograd

• Museum Panorama – the Battle of Stalingrad

Votkiinsk

• Tchaikovsky Museum

Yasnaya Polyana

• State Memorial Museum Estate. Leo Tolsoy