Editing Tourism in Russia (section)

== Cultural tourism ==
[[File:Kishi church 4.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kizhi]] in north-west Russia]]
[[File:NN-07-2021 06.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street]] in [[Nizhny Novgorod]]]]
Tourist destinations in Russia include Saint Petersburg (which appeared in the list of top visited cities of Europe in 2010) and Moscow, the current and the former capitals of the country. Moscow and Saint Petersburg museums such as [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]] and [[Tretyakov Gallery]], theaters including [[Bolshoi Theatre|Bolshoi]] and [[Mariinsky Theater|Mariinsky]], churches such as [[Saint Basil's Cathedral]], [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]], [[Saint Isaac's Cathedral]] and [[Church of the Savior on Blood]], fortifications such as the [[Kremlin]] and [[Peter and Paul Fortress]], squares such as [[Red Square]] and [[Palace Square]], and streets such as [[Tverskaya Street|Tverskaya]] and [[Nevsky Prospect]]. Palaces and parks are found in the former [[Template:Imperial palaces in Russia|imperial residences]] in the suburbs of Moscow ([[Kolomenskoye]], [[Tsaritsyno Park|Tsaritsyno]]) and Saint Petersburg ([[Petergof|Peterhof]], [[Strelna]], [[Oranienbaum, Russia|Oranienbaum]], [[Gatchina Palace|Gatchina]], [[Pavlovsk Palace]], [[Tsarskoye Selo]]). Moscow contains Soviet-era buildings along with [[Moscow International Business Center|modern skyscrapers]], while Saint Petersburg has classical architecture, rivers, channels and [[Bridges in Saint Petersburg|bridges]].{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

[[File:Grand Cascade of Peterhof 01.jpg|thumb|right|Grand Cascade in [[Peterhof Palace|Peterhof]] in [[Saint Petersburg]]]]

[[Nizhny Novgorod]] is the capital of the [[Volga Federal District|Volga region]]. Nizhny Novgorod is divided into two parts by the [[Oka River]]. The ''[[Administrative divisions of Nizhny Novgorod#Upper City|Upper City]]'' is its historical part. The ''[[Administrative divisions of Nizhny Novgorod#Lower City|Lower City]]'' is its industrial and commercial part. Here are the [[Nizhny Novgorod Fair|Fair]], the old [[Sormovsky City District|Sormovo]] and Kanavino, [[GAZ]] and Sotsgorod (the so-called "city in the city"), the [[Nizhny Novgorod railway station|railway terminal]], and the [[Strigino International Airport|airport]].{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

Kazan, the capital of [[Tatarstan]], shows a mix of Christian Russian and [[Muslim]] [[Tatars|Tatar]] cultures.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

[[Sakha Republic]] proposes to use former forced labour camps as a tourist attraction.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/26/russia-sakha-republic-yakutia-proposes-tourist-camps-former-gulags|title=Russia's Sakha Republic proposes 'tourist camps' on former gulag sites|first=Alec|last=Luhn|date=26 March 2014|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Poles visit places of Communist crimes, e.g., of the [[Katyn massacre]] and [[Solovetsky Islands]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katyn.pl/index.php?display=one_rec&id_one=99|title=Strona domeny katyn.pl|website=Katyn.pl|access-date=16 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414210706/http://katyn.pl/index.php?display=one_rec&id_one=99|archive-date=14 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itaka.pl/wycieczki/rosja/tajemnice-wysp-solowieckich,LEDSOLO.html|title=Tajemnice Wysp Sołowieckich – ITAKA|first=Biuro Podróży|last=Itaka|website=Itaka.pl|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref>

=== Museums ===
Russia is home to museums that include the [[Tretyakov Gallery]], the [[Kremlin Armoury]] and the [[State Historical Museum]] in Moscow, the [[Hermitage Museum]], and the [[Russian Museum]] in St Petersburg, the [[Kazan Kremlin]] in Kazan, etc.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} Russia has museums related to its literary and classical music heritage, such as [[Yasnaya Polyana]] associated with [[Leo Tolstoy]], the [[Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve]] associated with [[Alexander Pushkin]], the [[Dostoyevsky Museum]], the [[Tchaikovsky State House-Museum]], and the [[Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum]].{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

Museums related to Russia's military history and military hardware include the [[Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow|Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War]] on [[Poklonnaya Hill]], the [[Central Naval Museum]] in St Petersburg, the [[Mamayev Kurgan|Battle of Stalingrad Museum]] in Volgograd.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} Museums related to science and technology include the [[Polytechnic Museum]] of Moscow, and the [[Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics]].

The GULAG History Museum tells the story about the [[GULAG]] camps in [[Siberia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gmig.ru/en/|title=GULAG History Museum|website=gmig.ru}}</ref>
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