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,
SOCHI Serving as a beautiful backdrop for Sochi are the Caucasus Mountains, a paradise of undisturbed forest with its wealth of caves, canyons and pristine waterfalls. The mountains are home to the snow skiing resort of Krasnaya Polyana, if that’s your calling.
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KALININGRADKaliningrad has one of the most turbulent - and interesting histories - of any territory in Europe. Now Russian, but once Prussian, German and Polish, Kaliningrad’s architecture is a fascinating mix of the old Prussian red-brick buildings, Soviet blocks of flats, detached houses, brand-new Orthodox churches and glass high-rises. Kaliningrad’s pride is the Königsberg Cathedral a
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KALININGRAD The region has been known from classical antiquity as a main source of amber in Europe. Around 90 percent of the world’s amber deposits are located here. The Amber Museum’s galleries are full of curiosities - from enormous 4kg chunks to chips that have encased ancient insects for hundreds of thousands of years.
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ROSTOV-ON-DONA 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.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON Known from the time of Herodotus as a land of warlike Scythians, the endless steppes of the Don river basin eventually became home to the freedom-loving Cossacks. Catch a glimpse of the flamboyant Cossack culture still prevalent here, in a modern city.Source: FIFA, CultureTrip, Russia Tourism
