FIFA World Cup 2018: Head off to a Russian holiday
Indian football fans are marking their presence at the World Cup. A FIFA spokesperson confirmed that 17,962 tickets have been allocated to Indians. Now you may want to give the soccer matches a miss, but this is the best time to travel to Russia. With 570,000 foreign fans and 700,000 Russians expected to attend the matches, the cities are enlivened with anticipation and the restaurants with their specials, so happy city-hopping!
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
ROSTOV-ON-DON
A 1000 km to the south of Moscow lies Rostov, a city on an embankment by the slow-flowing Don river. The main promenade, Pushkin Street is a wonderful stretch to wander around in, basking in its historical heritage. Look out for statues of well-known characters from Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’, which won him a Nobel prize for literature in 1965.
Source: FIFA, CultureTrip, Russia Tourism
