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Russia travel tips

5 guides across Russia — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

MoscowRussiaRed Square, marble metro halls, and a city that runs to the second

St PetersburgRussiaCanals, the Hermitage, and a month of nights that never get dark

Lake BaikalRussiaA fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water, and in March you can walk on it

KamchatkaRussiaThirty active volcanoes, brown bears fishing, and no road to the rest of the country

VladivostokRussiaRussia’s Pacific city, closer to Tokyo than to Moscow, at the end of the railway