- Siberia: where is this cold land?
- How to get to Siberia?
- Rest in Siberia
- Siberian beaches
- Souvenirs from Siberia
Not every traveler knows where Siberia is. It is best to get acquainted with the sights of Siberian cities in June-August, when the weather is quite warm. The same period is suitable for swimming in local rivers, lakes and reservoirs, as well as exploring the Kungur Ice Cave and Belukha Mountain.
Siberia: where is this cold land?
Siberia is a region located in the northeast of Eurasia. In the west, this region is bounded by the Ural Mountains, in the north by the Arctic Ocean, in the south by the borders of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, in the east by the Far Eastern regions of Russia.
Western Siberia includes Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Kemerovo, Tyumen and Tomsk Regions, and East Siberia - Tuva, Yakutia, Khakassia, Buryatia, Transbaikal and Krasnoyarsk Territories, Amur and Irkutsk Regions.
The largest Siberian rivers are the Irtysh, Lena, Yenisei, Amur, Ob, and the lakes are Taimyr, Ubsu-Nur, Baikal. As for the large cities of Siberia, these include Ulan-Ude, Barnaul, Irkutsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk.
How to get to Siberia?
Those who decide to relax in the Altai Territory need to get to the Barnaul airport. You can fly there from Moscow, Sochi, Blagoveshchensk, Surgut, and by trains - from Moscow, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk.
You can fly to Buryatia (Ulan-Ude) from Moscow in 6 hours (flights from Vnukovo and Domodedovo).
Passengers will be delivered to Yakutia by planes from Moscow, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Vladivostok, Irkutsk. Those who set off on the road by train will be taken to Neryungri. Then the path can be continued by plane or car. Another way to get to Yakutia is through the ports of Tiksi and Osetrovo.
You can fly to the Tyumen region by plane from Moscow, the Northern capital of Russia, Salekhard, Novy Urengoy, Nizhnevartovsk, Tashkent and other cities.
Those who decide to relax in the Kemerovo Region will be offered to travel from Moscow to Kemerovo by travel (the journey will take about 54 hours) or by plane (4, 5-hour flight).
Rest in Siberia
Those who come to Yakutia will be able to go on a cruise along the Lena River or on an expedition to the Pole of Cold, catch pike, taimen and other types of fish in June-September red deer (September-October), bighorn sheep (August-October), polar wolf (March-April).
Guests of Buryatia will be offered to join ethnographic tours, raft along the rivers, get medical treatment with the help of local mineral waters, see the monuments of the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras, datsan monasteries of the 18-19th centuries, the Ivolginskaya hill Bayan-Tugud.
In the Tyumen region, travelers will be interested in the Abalaksky Svyato-Znamensky Monastery, Yalutorovsky Ostrog, Tobolsk Museum-Reserve, All Saints Church, Elk Farm (Turnaevo), Ostrich farm "Tyumen Ostrich". As for the thermal springs of the Tyumen region, tourists should pay attention to the springs Polyanka (+ 43˚C) and Sosnovy Bor (+ 40˚C).
In the Kemerovo region, tourists will find the Kuznetsky Alatau reserve (there are karst and alpine lakes, and you can meet an elk, a fox, a bear, a badger, an otter, a jay, a long-tailed tit, a white-backed woodpecker), Shorsky National Park (the park is a habitat for wolverines, otters, ermines, muskrats, snipe, black grouse, wood grouse, wild reindeer, roe deer, golden eagles, foxes), as well as the city of Kemerovo with its museum-reserve “Krasnaya Gorka”, Znamensky Cathedral, Zhukov Victory Park, “Lovers' Bridge”.
Siberian beaches
“Zvezda” (Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk): on the beach, on the shore of the Ob Sea, there is a cafe, football and volleyball grounds, and a paid toilet.
Beach on Lake Lipovoye (Tyumen): equipped with a beach club, trestle beds, sun loungers, umbrellas. On the beach you can go wakeboarding or wakeskate, and on the adjacent territory you can find auto and bike karting.
Souvenirs from Siberia
You shouldn't return from Siberia without pine nuts, pillows stuffed with cedar shavings, fir essential oil, balsams and herbal tinctures, felt boots, caskets, bast shoes, wall panels and other products made of cedar and birch bark, dried berries and mushrooms, shamanic talismans and medallions, tambourines, jew's harps and other musical instruments.
