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Capital: Moscow

Population: 142.5 million+

Language: Russian

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1 – Red Square – Moscow (also above)

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2 – Great Kremlin Palace

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3 – Grand Peterhof Palace

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4 – Church of the Savior on Blood – St. Petersburg

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5 – Bolshoi Theare – Moscow

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6 – Catherine Palace – Tsarskoye Selo

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7 – Kazan Cathedral

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8 – Winter Palace & Alexander Column – Saint Petersburg

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9 – Bronze Horseman – Saint Petersburg

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10 – Lenin’s Mausoleum

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11 – Mamayev Kurgan – Volgograd

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12 – Lake Baikal

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13 – Valley of Geysers – Kamchatka

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14 – Mount Elbrus

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15 – Dormition Cathedral – Vladimir

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16 – Novodevichy Convent – Moscow

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