12 Best Places to Visit in Russia

12. Novosibirsk

Located on the banks of the Ob River, Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia and the unofficial capital of Siberia—a place where summers are hot enough to swim and sunbathe, and the winters have temperatures that reach -40 degrees Celsius.

Home to the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, a number of universities, and several museums, the city have much to offer visitors. The outdoor Museum for Railway Technology is particularly interesting, as it features many diesel and steam locomotives, electric trains, snowplows, and a number of unusual carriages, such as tank cars, hospital and prison cars, and even fire engines.

The Novosibirsk Trans-Siberian railway station is one of the largest ones in the country and it was once at the epicenter of the transport of prisoners to gulags (Soviet forced labor camps). Today, it is the main departing point for train adventures to nearby cities, including the town of Berdsk, on the shores of the Ob Sea—which is actually a man-made reservoir, not an actual sea.

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