Russia - Russian Far East (PDF Chapter)

This is the Russian Far East chapter from Lonely Planet’s Russia guidebook.

Russia’s distant end of the line, the wild wild east feels likes its own entity. ‘Moscow is far’ runs the local mantra, and trade and transport connections with its Asian neighbours are growing fast.

• spend a day exploring some of Kamchatka’s most stunning scenery, the Valley of the Geysers, by helicopter
• maps
• discover the Russian Far East’s most interesting and cosmopolitan city, Vladivostok
• transport
• hike through gorgeous alpine scenery followed by a soak in a geothermal pool in Kam-chatka’s most accessible village, Esso
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Eastern Trans-Siberian, Blagoveshchensk, Birobi-dzhan, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Eastern Bam, Tynda, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Sakha Republic & Magadan Region, Yakutsk, Magadan, Sakhalin, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Kamchatka, Petropav-lovsk-Kamchatsky & Around, Valley of the Geysers, Lake Kurilskoe, Mt Mutnovskaya, Esso.