• Eugenia Kempinsky (St. Petersburg) - My name is Eugenia and I am a free-lance professional experienced guide providing tours in English. I am licensed to guide in all museums and palaces of Saint-Petersburg and its suburbs. I offer full variety of walking and driving tours, museum visits, trips to magnificent outskirts palaces, boat trips, transfers, visa support and help with accommodation.
• Oxana (St. Petersburg) - My name is Oxana; I’ve been working as a guide since 1999, I have licenses to run the excursions in almost all main museums and suburban palaces of Saint-Petersburg. If you are interested more in the revolution past of Russia, or in literary tours, or in common live of ordinary citizens – every your wish will be granted with pleasure.
• Andrey Vereshchagin (St. Petersburg) - Dear supposed visitors to Russia! Andrey Vereshchagin as an English speaking guide in St.Petersburg would be glad to offer his services. St.Petersburg – a tourist destination of the great demand, a window to Europe for Russia since 1703, the year of its foundation.
Arthur Lookyanov (Moscow) - My services as a private English Speaking Driver & Tour Guide completely depend on your needs. For example: - If you have a business trip to Moscow I can be your personal driver to arrange all transportation needs during a day or evening, between your business meetings I can show you the best places to have some lunch and more.
Daria (St. Petersburg) - Dear lady and gentemen, My name is Daria, I am 31 years old, I am an english speaking guide in St. Petersburg.
Special Interest Tours (St. Petersburg) - Tour to the backstage of the world-renowned Mariinsky (Kirov) ballet and opera theatre, which could be the part of city tour or particular visit or to be combined with the tour to the Museum of Russian Theatre. The present building, which dates back to 1859, originally housed another theater but was remodeled and taken over by the Mariinsky company.
Highlights of St.Petersburg (St. Petersburg) - A comprehensive city tour which suits your interests. Along the way I will tell you the history of the city, the events that have left their scars, its optimistic and dramatic plans for the future, together with anecdotes about its strange, friendly and colorful inhabitants, and answer any questions you may have about this most fascinating of cities.
Novgorod The Great (St. Petersburg) - Full-day tour to Novgorod The Great is the unique opportunity to see ancient Russian city, which is almost 1100 years old now. In the old times it was called “His Majesty the Great Novgorod” and “Father of the Russian Towns”.
CAPITAL CITY OF Russia: Moscow LANGUAGE OF Russia: Russian CURRENCY OF Russia: Rubli COMMENTS ABOUT Russia: Russia more fully known as the Russian Federation - is a vast country in Eastern Europe and northern Asia. Cities : Moscow (capital), Irkutsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Saint Petersburg, Vladimir, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg Best Places : Kizhi, Lake Baikal, Mamayev Kurgan Calling Code : +7 Time Zone : UTC +2 to +12
CLIMATE OF Russia: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast RELIGION OF Russia: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other POPULATION OF Russia: 143,782,338 (July 2004 est.) Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Belarusian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989)> HISTORY OF Russia: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress has been made on the economic front, recent years have seen a recentralization of power under Vladimir PUTIN and an erosion in nascent democratic institutions. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya. ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Russia: Russia ended 2003 with its fifth straight year of growth, averaging 6.5% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble are important drivers of this economic rebound, since 2000 investment and consumer-driven demand have played a noticeably increasing role. Real fixed capital investments have averaged gains greater than 10% over the last four years and real personal incomes have averaged increases over 12%. Russia has also improved its international financial position since the 1998 financial crisis, with its foreign debt declining from 90% of GDP to around 28%. Strong oil export earnings have allowed Russia to increase its foreign reserves from only $12 billion to some $80 billion. These achievements, along with a renewed government effort to advance structural reforms, have raised business and investor confidence in Russia's economic prospects. Nevertheless, serious problems persist. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices. Russia's manufacturing base is dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to achieve broad-based economic growth. Other problems include a weak banking system, a poor business climate that discourages both domestic and foreign investors, corruption, local and regional government intervention in the courts, and widespread lack of trust in institutions. In addition, a string of investigations launched against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of 2003, have raised concerns by some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy.
Dear supposed visitors to Russia! Andrey Vereshchagin as an English speaking guide in St.Petersburg would be glad to offer his services. St.Petersburg – a tourist destination of the great demand, a window to Europe for Russia since 1703, the year of its foundation.
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