Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

John Noble

Lonely Planet, 1996 - Travel - 1193 pages

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are countries transformed. Where once only state-run tours could go, the independent traveler on any budget now finds opportunities opening up on all sides. This practical guidebook takes you to all points of this vast region, from the birthplace of the Eastern Orthodox churches and the last resting place of the Soviet Union to the forests and volcanoes of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

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Noble et al. take the complex and vast country of Russia (covering 11 time zones), adds a couple of newly independent nations (Ukraine and Belarus), and provide a coherent distillation of how to ...

Contents

• EUROPEAN RUSSIA: 12
• FACTS ABOUT EUROPEAN RUSSIA: 21
• Government 51 Religion: 54
• FACTS FOR THE VISITOR: 81
• Planning Your Trip 81 Useful Organisations 102 Maps: 117
• Money _ 94 Laundry Ill Highlights: 138
• Tourist Offices 101 Books 113 Drinks: 150
• GETTING THERE AWAY: 160
• Sea 166 Visas for Other Countries: 171
• Hitching 186 Tours: 186
• MOSCOW: 192
• Inner SouthEast 263 Organised Tours: 279
• The Kremlin 213 Outer North 269 Places to Eat: 289
• City Centre 220 Outer West 272 Entertainment: 300
• Inner NorthWest 232 Outer East 276 Getting There Away: 306
• Inner South 251 River Trips 278 Getting Around: 317
• AROUND MOSCOW: 325
• Getting There Away 325 Borodino 334 Vladimir: 341
• Melikhovo 335 Ivanovo Palekh: 353
• Istra New Jerusalem Gorki Leninskie 339 Uglich: 367
• Ring 339 Abramtsevo Khotkovo: 373
• ST PETERSBURG: 375
• Vasilevsky Island 419 Entertainment 453: 432
• AROUND ST PETERSBURG: 467
• Kronstadt 477 Repino: 482
• Kursk Battle Memorial 500 Pskov Region 519: 495
• Staraya Russa: 518
• NORTHERN EUROPEAN RUSSIA: 533
• Belomorsk 546 Kandalaksha: 564
• VOLGA REGION: 582
• Kazan 589 Ulyanovsk: 600
• Around Perm 597 RostovonDon: 614
• Pyatigorsk 631 Around Vladikavkaz: 653
• THE TRANSSIBERIAN RAILWAY: 669
• Breaking Your Journey 679 What to Bring: 687
• FACTS ABOUT SIBERIA THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: 695
• Government 707 Religion: 709
• FACTS FOR THE VISITOR: 715
• Maps 720 Work: 721
• Sea 729 Tours: 729
• WESTERN SIBERIA: 736
• The Urals 736 Altay Republic 760 Abakan: 772
• EASTERN SIBERIA: 785
• The Western BAM Tynda 796 Ivolginsk Datsan: 817
• Zheleznogorsk Ilimsky 789 Baikal 806 Sakha Republic: 823
• THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: 828
• Around Khabarovsk: 838
• UKRAINE: 873
• Geography: 881
• FACTS FOR THE VISITOR: 901
• When to Go: 908
• Orientation: 945
• Upper Town: 951
• Andriyivsky Uzviz: 958
• CENTRAL UKRAINE: 979
• WESTERN UKRAINE: 989
• 989: 1004
• Kremenets 1023 Chernivtsi Region: 1031
• Berezhany 1029 Khmelnytsky Region: 1037
• Chortkiv 1029 Khmelnytsky: 1043
• Izmayil: 1057
• Simferopol 1061 KaraDah Nature Reserve: 1087
• EASTERN UKRAINE: 1094
• Zaporizhzhya: 1102
• FACTS ABOUT BELARUS: 1109
• Government 1115 Religion: 1116
• Visas Embassies 1120 Post Telecommunications 1124 Health: 1127
• GETTING AROUND: 1134
• Museums Art Galleries 1141 Places to Stay: 1143
• Things to Buy 1146 Getting Around: 1148
• Vitsebsk: 1161
• INDEX: 1175
• 7793 Ulan Ude 812: 1182

About the author

Noble grew up in the cool, green valley of the River Ribble, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus; Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit; Lonely Planet Russia; Lonely Planet
• Author: John Noble
• Edition: reprint, illustrated
• Publisher: Lonely Planet, 1996
• ISBN: 0864423209, 9780864423207
• Length: 1193 pages
• Subjects: Belarus; Russia; Russia (Federation); Travel / Former Soviet Republics; Travel / General; Travel / Russia; Ukraine