- Points of attraction
- How to get to Siberia: choosing wings
- The road from the book of records
- Hotel or apartment
- Transport subtleties
- The perfect trip to Siberia
Siberia is a huge geographic region that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast. It occupies more than half of the area of the entire Russian Federation and is subdivided into Western and Eastern. There are a great many versions of the origin of the name of the region, for example, in translation from some languages, a similar sounding term means "forest thicket", "blizzard" and simply the epithet "beautiful".
A trip to Siberia is a cherished dream of foreigners who believe in the legends about bears walking around the city and playing balalaikas. But seriously, this region is rich in sights - natural, architectural and historical.
Points of attraction
Choosing a travel route in Siberia, tourists find themselves face to face with a huge list of interesting and memorable places, in which it is extremely difficult to prioritize. Every Russian schoolchild knows the most important points of such a list by heart:
- Lake Baikal and the biosphere reserve on its shores are a unique natural site, one of a kind on the planet.
- The Altai mountain system with the highest point of inland Siberia, Mount Belukha. Its peak is located at 4509 meters.
- The Angara River is the only one that flows out of the majestic Baikal, and does not flow into it. Among the attractions associated with the Angara is the icebreaker of the same name in Irkutsk, where a historical museum has been created.
- Natural reserve "/> Thermal springs of Buryatia, with a variety of tourist bases. You can get treatment and rest on the unique healing waters all year round, since the temperature of the non-freezing pools both in summer and in winter does not drop below + 40 ° С.
Traveling through Siberia, anyone will find a lot of interesting things for themselves. Buddhist temples here side by side with Orthodox monasteries, art galleries - with museums of local lore, and the list of Siberian theaters and the level of the masters of the local stage can cause envy among inveterate metropolitan theatergoers.
How to get to Siberia: choosing wings
The unofficial capital of Siberia is considered to be the one and a half million metropolis Novosibirsk. Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Tyumen and Tomsk are also large centers of the Siberian regions. The most convenient way to get from the European part of Russia to Siberia is by plane. Distances between Moscow and Siberian cities are usually several thousand kilometers, and all other types of transport take too much time to travel:
- The flight Moscow - Novosibirsk will cost about 8-10 thousand rubles, depending on the airline. In the case of a direct flight, you will have to spend 4 hours on the way. S7 flies directly from St. Petersburg to Novosib. Issue price - from 13000, travel time - 4.5 hours.
- The northern capital with Krasnoyarsk is directly connected by Aeroflot planes. The cost of the ticket fluctuates around 18 thousand rubles, and you will have to spend 5 hours in the sky. Moscow and Krasnoyarsk are connected by the wings of S7, UTair and NordStar Airlines. The cost of tickets starts from 10,000 rubles, and you will have to lay down about 5 hours for the trip.
- Tickets to Irkutsk are not too cheap, because it is more than 5 thousand kilometers from Moscow. VIM Airlines will deliver passengers on this route for 18,000 rubles and 6 hours. The rest of the carriers are usually more expensive.
The road from the book of records
The legendary Transsib is a railway connecting Moscow with the largest cities in the eastern region of Russia. The Transsib is famous for being the longest railway on the planet.
Travel to Siberia by train along the Trans-Siberian railway from the capital to the final point, the city of Vladivostok, will take about 7 days. During this time, passengers will cover almost 9,300 km and see a change in six time zones. By train Moscow - Vladivostok you can get to Tyumen and Omsk, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, Taishet and Angarsk, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude.
The cost of a ticket from the capital to Vladivostok is from 8,500 rubles one way in a reserved seat carriage. Signature train "/>
Hotel or apartment
As well as everywhere in the country and in the world, there are hotels in Siberia for a wide variety of tastes and possibilities. Prices per day start in Novosibirsk hostels, for example, from 350 rubles. For this money, the guest is guaranteed a bed in a dormitory room, the possibility of free Internet access, a shared bathroom and a kitchen equipped with everything necessary for warming up and even cooking food.
Personal rooms in inexpensive hotels in Novosibirsk cost about 900 rubles, and if you need your own bathroom for complete comfort, you will have to pay from 1500 per day.
In Krasnoyarsk, the prices for hotel accommodation are about the same. If guests want more comfort than in a hostel, they have an apartment with 4 stars on the facade. The cost of a night in such hotels starts from 3000 rubles. Many 4 * hotels are located in buildings left over from Soviet times, but the repairs carried out in them do not give rise to doubts about the assigned star class.
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On Olkhon Island, a simple guest house can be rented for 1,200 rubles in the fall and 2,000 in the summer, and a magnificent residence with a bathroom, a barbecue area, a children's playground and a restaurant for 6,000 rubles.
Siberians willingly rent out their own apartments and houses to travelers coming on vacation. Rental prices depend on the location of the apartment relative to the city center, attractions and renovations. It is best to book apartments on special sites that exclude the possibility of fraud.
Transport subtleties
In Siberian cities, as elsewhere in Russia, public transport is represented by buses, trolleybuses, fixed-route taxis, and in Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg there is also a metro. The fare for city public transport depends on the city and local realities. For example, the price of a single trip by metro in Novosibirsk is 20 rubles, in buses from Yekaterinburg - 26 rubles, and in a trolleybus in Irkutsk - 15 rubles.
The perfect trip to Siberia
Despite the well-established opinion about the harsh Siberian climate, one should not be afraid to go beyond the Urals even in winter. The weather in Siberia is so diverse that each region has its own temperature records and its own favorable travel times.
The best time for hiking in Altai and climbing the most beautiful mountains of Siberia is the second half of spring and early autumn. In summer, the continental climate provides quite intense heat.
Siberian ski resorts offer active rest by the end of autumn. In the last days of November, a fairly strong snow cover is established on the slopes of Belokurikha, where adrenaline lovers storm the tracks until the end of March. The athletes stay a little longer on the slopes of Divnogorsk on the left bank of the Yenisei. Comfortable skiing here is provided to his fans until mid-April.
It is best to go on excursions to the national parks of Siberia located in Buryatia in spring, when migratory birds stop there for rest. By the way, the wettest season in Buryatia begins in the second half of summer. At this time, cyclones from the Pacific Ocean bring frequent rains and the region receives the maximum amount of precipitation in comparison with the rest of the year.
