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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 6d ago

Tallinn Maritime Museum Unveils New Seaplane Harbor.

The magnificent Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia, is celebrating this month as the decade old museum has finally opened its new Seaplane Harbor building. After years of searching for a suitable space to house its growing collection, the museum, founded in 1935, has made its new home in the renova
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 1W ago

St Petersburg Viking Festival

The St Petersburg Viking Festival is not to be missed if you are on a tour of this great Russian city later this month. From May 18th to May 20th, the St Petersburg Viking Festival offers an open-air spectacle of viking boats, axe-throwing contests, music, living history, and traditional Norwegian c
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 2W ago

Exploring the Russian Arctic with Ulko Tours

When you think of the great Russian North you might get images of snow, ice, and desolation, but the magic of traveling north during the White Nights on a cruise from St Petersburg to Arkhangelsk is not to be underestimated. Taking place between June 23rd and July 14th, the cruise captures the magic
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 3W ago

Russian Tourist Numbers Expected to Sky-Rocket Thanks to Sporting Events

Russian tourism is looking at a major increase over the next four years, largely due to a number of sporting events boosting visitors to Moscow and St Petersburg. The data, coming courtesy of Euromonitor International Research, cites sports as the reason for the anticipated 20% increase in the numbe
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 1M ago

Stockholm in Spring – Visiting Kungsträdgården

Visiting Stockholm in spring, particularly in late April or early May, means that you might be lucky enough to see the beautiful bloom of the cherry trees in Kungsträdgården. This central Stockholm park offers a stunning display of cherry blossom for about a week each year with an explosion of fluff
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 1M ago

Visiting Tallinn with Kids

Visiting Tallinn with kids is a great idea as the Estonian capital offers tourists of all ages a plethora of things to do. In Tallinn there are family-friendly museums, fairytale fascination in the Medieval Old Town, rowboat rental, Kadriorg Park, and the Tallinn Zoo, amongst other things. Ulko Tour
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 1M ago

The Tallest Building in Moscow Goes Up and Up and Up in Smoke

The latest addition to Moscow’s skyline, and the structure set to be the tallest building in Europe, suffered a serious blow this week as a fire tore through the 65th floor of the Federation Tower. Luckily no one was hurt in the evening fire as the Moscow skyscraper is still under construction. The
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 1M ago

St. Petersburg Mansion a Secret Treasure-Trove.

Workers renovating a former mansion in St. Petersburg uncovered more than they had bargained for as they found a hidden treasure-trove beneath the floor last week. With the stash apparently dating back to 1917, and thought to have been hidden just months before the Bolshevik Revolution, the items ha
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 2M ago

Millesgården – The Popular Stockholm Sculpture Garden

Millesgården is a rather unique Stockholm tourist attraction created especially to exhibit the artwork of sculptor Carl Milles and his wife Olga. Set in beautiful grounds, the Milles’ residences, old and new, are also now permanent exhibition spaces as the couple donated Millesgården to the Swedish
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UlkoTours Russian Travel Blog · 2M ago

Tallinn Music Week

Tallinn may have a reputation as a wonderfully historic European city with its medieval Old Town and cobbled streets but contemporary culture is ablaze in the Estonian capital and nothing exemplifies this more than Tallin Music Week later this month. A three-day festival starting March 29th, the fes
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