Way to Russia Guide

The first thing you need to get when applying for a Russian visa is theRussian visa support documents (also called "invitation").

Discover the major Trans-Siberian destinations and the best towns to visit during the trip. Also, check out our new live Trans-Siberian journey planner.

Moscow is huge, exciting and exhausting at the same time.

Ludwig Wittgenstein said: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Sometimes we hear and see so many striking, odd and new things about Russia on TV or in newspapers or from the people we meet, that I think I'm missing something.

There are basically two different ways to travel the Trans Siberian railway: either taking a direct train or making stopovers along the way.

To make our take on Russian people a little bit more symmetrical, I was asked to write an article about Russian men, because we just recently updated the similar section on Russian women.

Normally there wouldn't even be a need to make a whole section dedicated to Russian women especially: it might be considered sexist by most people, you run into the risk of making crude generalizations, and the actual reason of writing about women seems a bit ambiguous.