Volga-Vyatka (Russia)

	Kazan' 'Built on an ancient site, the Kazan Kremlin dates from the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. It was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and became the Christian See of the Volga Land. The only surviving Tatar fortress in... Go for: History 1 experience: Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin.
	Perm' Perm 36 was one of the most terrible of the Soviet gulags. These prisons built during the communist era were begun as reform camps but became places to inter political prisoners under the most severe of regimes. Perm 36 was a timber plant producing... Go for: Museums 1 experience: Perm 36.
	Nizhniy Novgorod Christianity became the religion of Russia in 988 AD yet for uncounted centuries there had been a variety of megalithic, pagan and shamanic traditions. Concentrations of megaliths have been found near the White Sea and in the Caucasus Mountains. The... Go for: Churches & Abbeys, Sacred Places 1 experience: St. Sophia Cathedral.
	Yekaterinburg Russia’s last Tzar, Nicholas II, his wife, children and three servants were executed on this spot at 2:30 AM on July 17 1918. The Ipatiev House, then a Bolshevik stronghold then stood on the spot and the family were woken from their beds, taken into... Go for: Churches & Abbeys 1 experience: The Church on the Blood (Church of All Saints)..