Capital: Moscow
Population: 141,927,297 (2010/9th)
Area: 17,075,400 km2 (1st) / 6,592,800 sq mi
Official languages: Russian official throughout the country; 27 others co-official in various regions
(most russians don't speak english, french and other foreign languages, it's better to learn basic russian phrases and cyrillic alphabet)
Places people usually visit: Moscow aka Moskva, Saint Petersburg aka Sankt-Peterburg, Nizhny Novgorod aka Gorky, Golden Ring (which incudes Sergiyev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy,Rostov Velikiy,Yaroslavl,Kostroma,Ivanovo,Gus-Khrustalny,Suzdal,Vladimir,Rybinsk,Uglich,Alexandrov), Kazan, Veliky Novgorod,Petrozavodsk and some other (like Perm, Yekaterinburgh, Samara, Astrakhan). All these cities are before Ural montains whoch is natural border between Europe and Asia.
Crossing Russia: trans-siberian train from Moscow to Vladivostok.
The distance is 9,259 km (5,753 mi), it takes ~7 days
Main stops:Yaroslavsky Terminal, Moscow; Yaroslavl,Volga River,Kirov,Perm,Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Irtysh River, Omsk, Ob River, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yenisei River, Taishet,Baikal Amur Mainline junction, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude , Trans-Mongolian line junction, Chita, Trans-Manchurian line junction, line to BAM, line to Blagoveshchensk, Birobidzhan, Amur, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok
Baikal-amur mainline from Tayshet to Sovetskaya Gavan. The distance is 4,324 km (2,687 mi)
You may by them online and use e-ticket (but AFAIK the option is available only in russian and only for registered users, try to find any ticket here).
For transliteration (CYR-LAT-CYR) you may use this tool
How to get invitation to Russia: several ways to get invitation
Hotels\accomodation: rooms\flats advs, flats\rooms board, couchsurfing, hostels, also there are lots of hotels (Holiday Inn and so on), pls use any search engine to get info about them.
On any train station there are ladies that let on lease their apts and room from 2000 rur min (1 USD~30 rur).
Main airports: SVO aka Sheremetyevo, DME aka Domodedovo, VKO aka Vnukovo (mostly domestic), Pulkovo
Useful links
http://www.waytorussia.net
Contents
Russia: Job search
Russia: Internet services
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