REKREOLOGY

SYSTEM IN
RUSSIAN
FEDERATION
Aleksandra Dragunova 6480
 Geography and location of the country
■ In 2020 population is estimated at
145,934,462 people at mid year according
to UN data

■ Size 17 130 000 км²

■ The length is 9,000 km, hight is 4000 km

■ 11 time zones

■ 2 continents (Europe and Asia)

■ 3 oceans (Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific)

■ 100,000 rivers

■ 120 ethnic groups

■ 85 federal subjects (provinces, republics,

territories, federal cities,

■ 7 federal districts: North-West, Central,

Volga area, South, Ural area, Siberia and
Far East.

■ 35 official languages: Ossetic, Ukrainian,

Buryat, Kalmyk, Chechen, Ingush, Abaza,
Adyghe, Cherkess, Kabardian, Altai,
Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar,
Karachay-Balkar, Khakas, Nogai, Tatar,
Tuvan, Yakut, Erzya, Komi, Hill Mari,
Meadow Mari, Moksha, and Udmurt.
 Climate and nature

Seasons:

•Spring
•Summer
•Autumn
•Winter

Russia and the Republics have four major vegetation regions. These regions run east to west in wide strips.
Moving from north to south, they are the tundra, forest, temperate grassland, and desert.
Climate and seasons
Peak Season - Summer, from June to August Month
Averagesea
temperature Our opinion
Shoulder Season - Spring (March - May) and Autumn January -1.7°C to 10.2°C freezing swimming
(September - November)
Low Season - With sub-zero temperatures throughout the season, February -1.8°C to 8.8°C freezing swimming

Winter (December - February)

March -1.7°C to 8.6°C freezing swimming

April -1.3°C to 10.8°C freezing swimming

May -0.9°C to 16.8°C cold swimming

June 1.5°C to 22.4°C pleasant swimming

Travel Season Min./Max Temperature Season
July 5.6°C to 26.3°C ideal swimming

March - May -8 to 19°C Cold but PLeasant August 6.3°C to 26.8°C ideal swimming

September 5.5°C to 24.3°C pleasant swimming

June - August 11 to 23°C Warm And Pleasant

October 3.1°C to 20°C cool swimming

September - November -3 to 16°C Cool and Pleasant
November -0.1°C to 15°C cold swimming

December - February -16 to -5°C Cold with Heavy Snowfall December -1.7°C to 11.5°C freezing swimming
 Nature reserves in Russia

1. Arctic 11. Zabaikal

2. Kola-Karelian & Eastern 12. Kano-Kolymsky
European Forest 13. Amur-Sakhalin
3. Eastern-European Forest- 14. Kamchatka
Steppe and Caspian Desert Okhotsk Sea
4. Ural Mountains
5. Great Caucasus
6. Western Siberian Forest
7. Western Siberian Forest-
Steppe and Steppe
8. Central Siberia
9. Altay-Sayansky
10. Baikal
 Koryaksky Reserve, Kola-Karelian, Great Arctic Zapovednik
Wrangel Island, Arctic
Estern Europen Forest

Darvinsky Zapovednik, Dagestansky Zapovednik, Shulgan-Tash Zapovednik,

Kola-Karelian, Forest-Steppe, Ural
Estern Europen Forest Steppe & Caspian Semi-Desert
The Caucasus Mountain Region, Severo-Osetinsky Reserve Prielbrusye National Park
GreatCaucasus GreatCaucasus GreatCaucasus

Sochi National Park Olekminsky Reserve The Altai region 

GreatCaucasus Central Siberia
 Lake Baikal Zabaikalsky National Park

Far East Marine Nature Reserve Kurilsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka

 Caucasian-Chernomorsky region
■ The climate is subtropical
■ The 350-kilometer-long coastline
■ The main tourist and resort centers
are Anapa, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi
■ The swimming season is from mid-
May to almost the end of October
■ The healing factor is mineral waters
(sulphide sodium chloride, iodine-
bromine and fluorine) and silt mud.
■ Krasnaya Polyana, one of the leading
ski resorts in Russia, is located 40 km
from the center of Sochi.
■ The only one legal casino in the
country
 North Caucasian region
■ Leading region of health, medical and sports tourism.
■ The most important tourist meso-area is the
Caucasian Mineralnye Vody resort.
■ Kislovodsk, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki,
Zheleznovodsk.
■ The largest sanatorium and medical balneological
complex in Russia.
■ More than 130 sanatoriums, dispensaries and
boarding houses with treatment function.
■ The ancient defensive structures of the peoples of the
North Caucasus, traditions, customs, national cuisine
which are preserved.
■ Cultural figures: M.I. Glinka, A.S. Griboyedov, A.S.
Pushkin, M.Yu. Lermontov, L.N. Tolstoy, F.I.
Chaliapin.
 Mountains-Caucasian region
■ The main area of ​recreational activities is
sports and tourism.
■ Recreational and sports tourist routes: hiking,
mountain, water (rafting), skiing, speleological,
cycling.
■ Sports, mountaineering and tourist centers,
shelters, hotels, ski tourism centers: Krasnaya
Polyana, Dombay, Teberda, Elbrus region,
Tsey.
■ Balneological mountain-climatic resort
Nalchik.
■ Ethnographic attractions have been preserved:
songs, dances, holidays, events, customs,
traditions, cuisine of the peoples of the North
Caucasus.
 Azov region
■ Located by the coast of the Azov Sea.
■ The main recreational function is health improvement.
■ Swimming season lasts from mid-May to the end of September.
■ The Markitan Lagoon, Akhtanizovsky Kurgan, active mud volcanoes, Indian lotus plantations
■ Greek settlements and ancient fortified cities.
■ The main resort and tourist centers: Yeisk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kamyshevatskaya, Temryuk.
 Caspian region

■ The western coast of the Caspian Sea within the

Republic of Dagestan.
■ Seaside and mountain tourism
■ The ancient city of Derbent
■ Folk crafts are widespread: carpet weaving,
artistic metal processing, and the manufacture
of ceramics.
■ Sanatoriums, rest houses, boarding houses,
tourist centres.
 Central Region
■ Capital is Moscow.
■ More than 30 ski centers.
■ Historical towns, numerous museums-reserves,
old estates and monuments of architecture and
art, monasteries, places of pilgrimage and
religious tourism.
■ Moscow, the Moscow region, Smolensk, the
Valdai Upland, the Upper Oka region,
Meshchera, Oryol region.
■ Winter and summer recreation: health and
sports tourism, dacha, including hunting and
fishing.
 Northwest region
■ St. Petersburg - one of the world centers of culture
and social life.
■ Maim ecreational activities is health-improving and
cognitive.
■ Sports tourism and recreation are most developed in
the Republic of Karelia.
■ The world famous cultural heritage site on the island
Kizhi.
■ The Gulfstream of Finland.
■ The Volga-Baltic waterway.
 Western region
■ The most western part of Russia.
■ The main attractions are concentrated in
Kaliningrad.
■ More than 90% of the world's amber
reserves are concentrated near the
village of Yantarny.
■ Clean ionized air, sea bathing, peat mud,
sodium chloride water, which are the
basis for the functioning of sanatoriums,
boarding houses, camp sites and rest
houses.
 Volzhskiy region
■ The recreational focus is health-improving and
cognitive.
■ The Volga is the main river cruise route in Russia.
■ The largest tourist centers: Astrakhan, Volgograd,
Ivanovo, Kazan, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Plyos,
Samara, Saratov, Uglich, Ulyanovsk.
■ Historical and architectural monuments of the Great
Bulgars and the island of Sviyazhsk, Makariev
Monastery, Raifskaya Hermitage, Ipatiev Monastery
and many others.
■ The leading regions of modern folk decorative art.
■ Water, skiing, cycling, hiking and walking, hunting
and fishing.
■ Hydromineral resources, deposits of medicinal peat
mud.
 Uralsky region
■ Ancient mountains, "Gray Ural" - the most striking
feature of the region.
■ Many rivers and lakes.
■ Hiking, rafting on boats, climbing, skiing and
snowmobiling, horseback riding, and skiing.
■ Sanatoriums, boarding houses and other health-
improving enterprises.
■ Hydromineral resources and therapeutic muds.
■ 500 caves. Kungur cave.
■ Monastery of the New Martyrs of Russia, built in
modern times in the name of the memory of the
members of the last royal family who died
tragically in 1918.
 Altai region
■ Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo,
Omsk
■ Intensive development of health and
sports tourism.
■ It has significant hydromineral
resources and mud.
■ Every year tens and hundreds of
thousands of domestic and foreign
tourists and climbers travel along
sports tourist routes: walking, water -
equestrian, speleo, cycling, mountain.
■ Lake Teletskoye
■ The rivers Katun, Chuya,
Chulyshman, Bashkaus, Charysh.
 Pribaikalskiy Region
■ Lake Baikal is accounted for 85%
of all fresh water reserves in
Russia. It is the World Heritage
Site.
■ The development of health and
sports recreation and tourism
(hunting, fishing, water, mountain,
hiking, skiing, yachting).
■ The mineral springs, medical
resorts
■ Architectural monuments and
sights of the 18th-19th centuries.
■ Functioning Buddhist temple,
Kyakhta
■ Jewelry made of lapis lazuli, jade,
charoite.
 Yenisei region
■ The mountains of the Western and Eastern
Sayan.
■ Wild nature, mountainous areas covered
with forest and steppe vegetation, and still
preserved wild fauna.
■ "Stolby" - unique huge bizarre rocks is
especially popular with tourists and local
residents.
■ Shushenskoye Museum-Reserve - a large
tourist centre with a developed
infrastructure.
■ Sports, recreational and educational
tourism, fishing and hunting, on the basis
of hydromineral resources and deposits of
curative mud within the Krasnoyarsk
Territory, the Republic of Tyva and the
Republic of Khakassia.
■ Lake Shira, Lake Uchum
■ In Krasnoyarsk, a fascinating motor ship
route begins down the Yenisei to Dudinka
and Dikson.
 Far East region
■ The taiga and subtropical flora.
■ Hiking, skiing, mountain, water
travel, hunting, fishing.
■ In the summer you can swim and
sunbathe on the beaches of the
Sea of ​Japan.
■ Amur river tours.
■ Balneology (therapeutic bathing
in hot springs for healing
purposes)
■ The main tourist centers of the
region are Khabarovsk,
Vladivostok, Nakhodka.
■ The Vladivostok Fortress.
 Northern region
■ Area size is ​more than 10 million
square km.
■ Attracts well-trained sports tourists, as
well as daredevils hungry for exoticism
and thrills.
■ Sea and river cruises in the waters of
the northern and eastern seas.
■ Sailing on icebreakers along the
Northern Sea Route and to the North
Pole
■ Infrastructure and communications are
developed only in Yakutsk,
Yugorskaya, Magadan, South
Kamchatka, Solovetskaya.
■ Volcanoes of Kamchatka (World
Heritage Site), Solovetsky Islands,
White Sea-Baltic Canal, Lena Pillars,
Pole of Cold.
 My own proposal of a tour.
Target audience: Age 25+, Foregners, Corporate parties, Couples,
Route map. This tour is designed for those who have time and who
are not in a rush.
Tour seasons: Summer, Winter, Spring, Autumn
Route: Irkutsk (Ulan-Ude) - Ust-Barguzin - Zabaikalskiy National
Park, and Barguzinsky Nature Reserve – Khakusy (northern part of
Baikal) - AYAYA bay - Frolikha Lake - Ushkanie islands - Ust-
Barguzin-Ulan- Ude
Duration: 7 days
Key adventures: Wild nature discovering, hiking in national parks,
sightseeing tours, guest houses, villages, thermal springs, open air
warm pools, boat excursions, hidden gems of Baikal lake, museums,
woods.
Price per person: 50600 RUB (610 EUR) 1 day (87 EUR per day)
The price was counted based on the salary of personal tour guide,
tickets to museums, excursions, boat trips, visiting reserves,
accommodation, food and fuel.
Day 1
Arrival in Ulan- Ude airport or train station.
Breakfast in the city
Sightseeing tour of Ulan- Ude to see the biggest head
sculpture of Lenin,  walk along the pedestrian Lenin
street, visit modern Rinpoche Posha datsan from where
you can enjoy the view of the city. ( 2 hours)
Possible tour extension: tour of Ivolginsky dastan.

Transfer to Ust- Barguzin with multiple stops on the

way to enjoy Buryat scenery.
Visit the oldest Baturinskiy convent, Turka village, walk
along its embankment to see the Lighthouse and have
lunch.
 Arrival in Ust- Barguzin.
 Free time and dinner.
 Overnight stay in a guest-house.
 Day 2
Breakfast at the guest-house or hotel
Transfer by UAZ car  to Monakhovo cordon where  the visit- center is located. Short
introduction to Zabaikalskiy National Park, and Barguzinsky Nature Reserve.
Boarding the speed boat
3 hour private trip to picturesque Davsha village along the shoreline.
 Lunch in Davsha.
Davsha is a tiny village (4-7 people are living there year round) located in Barguzinsky
Nature Reserve,
Tour of the Museum of Nature or the Museum of Sable .
Take 1 hour walk along the trail (3 km) It is  a circle trail which leads to the woods as
well as along the shoreline .
The accompany with a National Park ranger who knows about the flora and fauna of
this place.
A longer trail of 16 km ( about 8 hours) is available upon request.
Dinner
Night in a Guest-house in Davsha
Banya (Traditional Russian steam bath) can be arranged upon request.
  Day 3
Breakfast at the guest-house
Boarding the speed-boat to go to Khakusy (about 3
hours) to the northern part of Baikal. You will go
through that part which is known as the Big Sea.
Checking in a guest-house in Khakusy.
Lunch
It is time to enjoy the Thermal springs complex
"Khakussy" located in the coniferous forest. You
could enjoy taking bathes in hot water (+42…+46
°С) either in open air swimming pools (lidos) or in
the building.
 Free time
 Dinner
 Staying overnight in Khakussy
 Day 4
Breakfast at the guest-house.
Transfer to AYAYA bay. This narrow gorgeous bay is great place for
photo buffs. The bay “AYAYA” from the Evenki language is
translated as  “gorgeous”.
Take Trail to Frolikha Lake.
Lunch prepared  on the bonfire
Catamaran excursion to the waterfall
Getting back along the trail to the bay AYAYA
Transfer back to Khakusy
Dinner and night in a guesthouse
 Day 5
Breakfast in the guest-house

Free time

 Lunch
Boarding the speedboat and transfer  back to Davsha ( about 3
hours depending on weather conditions)

Dinner

 Staying overnight in Davsha

Day 6
Breakfast in a guest-house
Boarding the speed boat to  visit Ushkanie islands.
Lunch on the boat.
Transfer to Zmeevaya Bay to  see thermal springs and take a
bath. The water of the spring runs both on  and under the 
ground and it is rich in hydrogen sulfide, fluorine and sodium.
The temperature ranges from  +28ºC to +34ºC.
The Chevyrkuisky Bay and numerous islands.
Transfer to fishers’ village Kurbulik. This small village is
located in the National park.
Dinner there and transfer to Monakhovo- Ust Barguzin to stay
overnight in a guest-house or the hotel.
 Day 7
Ust- Barguzin-Ulan- Ude
Possible tour extention:
Tour to Ivolginsky datsan and Old- believers village.
Ivolginskiy datsan  is the center of Buddhist life in
Russia.
The ritual goroo –  a spiritual walk around datsan,
visit the main temple.
Old Believers village visit.
Learn about the life and traditions of Old- believers
in the authentic village, participate in the folk concert
and be treated with a delicious traditional lunch or
dinner.
Overnight in Ulan- Ude
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