Russia

does anyone happen to kow the nearest metro station for moscow's B2 club at:

м. Маяковская, Большая Садовая, 8

thank you very much!

finally able to secure my visa from consulate in hong kong... so excited!
i also arranged my flight with aeroflot:

20/6 HKG -> SVO

1/7 LED -> SVO -> HKG

i know all of you would suggest training back from st pete to moscow but i think its a bit exhausting to do two full days, without being able to take a shower, and then having to fly 10 hrs back to hong kong. so i decided to cut it short in st pete and fly back via SVO.

concerning the transit from SVO1 -> SVO2, i read from aeroflot site which…

I'll be travelling in the Russian Caucasus for most of the month of June. I'll be travelling independently and do not have an itinerary or even a concrete plan as of yet, but I'll hit all the main cities and spots - from Rostov-On-Don, to the Black Sea, to Elbrus.

I'm in contact with an agency that does Elbrus tours. They are reluctant to give me full support for a 30-day tourist visa as technically I'll only be spending a few days with them. They say I'm better off with a business visa from…

Hello-

I've been reading postings and would like advice anyone can give about the following:

I am a 27 year old woman who will be traveling alone for the first time in Eastern Europe. I have gotten responses that the trip will either be "extremely dangerous" or "very OK". Kind of hard to get a read on that.

So far the itinerary is as follows: St. Petersburg -> Irkutsk (and possibly other Siberian towns, recommendations needed?!)-> Trans Siberian to Mongolia then to Moscow-> Romania

I am…

hi gang

this thursday i'm off to moscow and then a few days later to vlad with a few stops in the places listed below. i have done my homework and thoroughly searched the net and also this forum, but couldn't find much information at all, so i wondered if anyone here knew of any:
- gay bars/pubs/cafes
- vegetarian restaurants/cafes

in yekaterinburg, tomsk, krasnoyarsk, irkutsk, ulan ude, khabarovsk and vladivostok (i have found one veggie restaurant there).

many thanks in advance!

Hello there.

I have just bought (at least that's what I think) a ticket from Moscow to Irkutsk (departing 10.06) in RZD.RU. Apparently there were no problems and my visa card payment was accepted. The thing is that I didn't print out anything. So If the transaccion was accepted, do they send you an email with this "invoice with the bar code on it"?
Or must I wait till the bank approves the transaction?
If they don't, what should I do?

Thanks
jorge

Hi,
I am travelling to St. Petersburg end of May and am planning to stay for 4 or 5 days.
Are there any budget hostels there that you would recommend?
Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi all,

Need to take application in tomorrow or Tuesday. Have new passport (old one didn't have the required six month validity); have invitation letter (used waytorussia and can recommend - document received by email within 48 hours).

My form is the one issued by the Russian consulate in Sydney. Two questions I hope you can help with. (I can't afford to get this wrong as time is running out).

Q9 - route of Journey, including arrival and departure points.
Leaving by air from Moscow; arriving…

I'm trying to make my way through eng.rzd.ru to book some tickets from St P to Moscow. However, I can't figure out what I should enter for the Departure and Destination point. Because no matter what I had entered, it just says there are no direct trains to get through the points.

I would like to know what I should enter to search the trains and whether I should use the original rzd.ru website instead of the English version. If I should the original website, what I should enter to search the…

I was just going through some old letters of mine from about ten years ago and came across a letter from Russia. The stamps used for it depicted the Klyopa cartoon character . My friend explained it's a cartoon from Russia but not much more.

I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me more about - is it a really famous cartoon in Russia? What is it about? Can anyone help me find more links or pictures about it? The only thing I found in English was the above link. If someone could also type out…