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60ºN 80ºN U S A 70ºN 80ºN 70ºN 60ºN 0º St Lawrence 180º Chukchi Island Wrangel A R C T I C 20ºE O C E A N Island Chukotka A R C T I C 160ºE Peninsula

NORWAY 40ºE 140ºE 60ºE East Siberian 120ºE Sea N O R T H Svalbard 80ºE 100ºE Kamchatka S E A Norwegian O C E A N Sea of fire and ice Land

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NORWAY St Petersburg Islands o B E R I N G Zemlya l

Oslo Home to the incomparable y S E A Hermitage m

Laptev s SWEDEN k Sea Indigirka

Barents Sea y Novaya Solovetsky Islands Zemlya M Stockholm o

Beautiful monastery, cruel u N FINLAND history Kara Sea Peninsula T n A t S Baltic I a Shelekhov Tallinn Helsinki A i

Dikson n Sea LATVIA S Gulf Kizhi E s Kamchatka Khatanga S R‹ga ESTONIA Kaliningrad Kizhi Amazing wooden church Peninsula Peninsula on an island Gydansky U CENTRAL V R R Peninsula e Klyuchevskaya St Petersburg r A (4668m) SIBERIAN k F Vilnius Vorkuta Dudinka h Gulf PLATEAU o Petropavlovsk- BELARUS Veliky Norilsk y s Sea of Novgorod Ancient churches, a n i n Kamchatsky Vologda C I R C L E s k t a Okhotsk magnificent kremlin A R C T I C Igarka y M o u n Minsk Smolensk Salekhard Okhotsk Tver Putorana Syktyvkar Plateau Ob Volga R U S S I A Siberian Suzdal Kyiv Tula Lowland 50ºN Oryol Suzdal A Olekminsk UKRAINE Vladimir The quintessential I Khanty-Mansiysk S R Nizhny idyllic village Ob I B E Novgorod Nizhnevartovsk Kazan Perm Hike around 's Tatar StraitSakhalin Moscow Nizhny Trans-Siberian Railway sapphire jewel Island Kungur Tagil Be surrounded by history The ultimate big Syzran Vanino on Tobolsk train trip Komsomolsk- Samara Yeniseysk Yekaterinburg Tyumen Stanovoy Mountains na-Amure Sovetskaya BLACK Volga Gavan SEA Rostov- Ufa Udokan Amur Yuzhno- on-Don Volgograd Ural Tomsk Bratsk Mountains Sakhalinsk Novorossiysk Lena Mineralnye Omsk Severobaikalsk Vody Orsk Novosibirsk Krasnoyarsk Irtysh Lake Chita Ussuri Sochi Astrakhan Yenisey

Baikal Argun K A Z A K H S T A N Barnaul Manchurian Mountains Volgograd Mountains Home to gigantic Ulan-Ude Plain Mt Elbrus Astana (5642m) CASPIAN Mother Russia statue Yablonovy SEA GEORGIA Kyzyl Tbilisi Tobolsk Altai Coast Mountains Darkhan ARMENIA Aral Ancient Siberian capital, 40ºN Yerevan Hit the beachesSea magnificent kremlin and ski slopes Ulaanbaatar Vladivostok AZERBAIJAN Sea of Syr Darya Admire beautiful Baku Tuva Japan Turanian Lake Excitingly unique ethnic Golden Horn Bay NORTH Plateau KOREA Caucasus Mountains Balkhash CHINA republic Snow-covered peaks, wildflower- UZBEKISTAN carpeted meadows Gobi Pyongyang Tashkent Altai Mountains Beijing Russia's nature paradise Desert Seoul JAPAN Ashgabat Bishkek supreme Yellow SOUTH Tehran I R A N Great Sea KOREA TURKMENISTAN KYRGYZSTAN Basin