Visit Siberia

Try borscht, a traditional Ukraine-originated beetroot soup popular in Eastern Europe.

The world’s deepest and oldest lake, frozen into blue ice sheets each winter.

A Russian surveyor and a Nanai hunter survive the Siberian taiga together.

Pristine "blue pearl" lake near Siberia.

Span onion-domed skylines, taiga rails, and imperial art treasures of Russia

Visit Saint Petersburg, Russia's imperial capital. See the Hermitage Museum (one of the world's largest art museums, housed in the Winter Palace with over 3 million items), walk along Nevsky Prospect (the city's main avenue with historic buildings and shops), explore the Peter and Paul Fortress (the original citadel and burial site of Russian tsars), and admire the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (a 19th-century church with intricate mosaics and onion domes).

Learn Russian, spoken across Eastern Europe

Take the world's longest train journey from Moscow to Vladivostok