Eastern Europe

Golden domes, vast distances and Moscow's Red Square.

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Countries

Belarus

Soviet boulevards and old castles.

Moldova

Enormous wine cellars.

Russia

Onion domes, imperial palaces and Siberian distances.

Ukraine

Gold domes, Habsburg cafés and a resilient people.

The Short List

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Cities · Soviet architecture

Minsk

Belarus

A grand postwar Soviet city.

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Heritage · Wine

Cricova and Mileștii Mici

Moldova

Huge underground wine cities, with miles of tunnels.

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Cities · UNESCO

Moscow

Russia

Red Square, St. Basil's and the Kremlin.

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Mountains · Seven Summits

Mount Elbrus

Russia

Europe's highest mountain, a volcano in the Caucasus.

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Cities · UNESCO

Lviv

Ukraine

A Habsburg old town, known for coffee and chocolate.

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Heritage · Monasteries

Orheiul Vechi

Moldova

A cave monastery on a river cliff.

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Cities · UNESCO

St. Petersburg

Russia

A canal-laced imperial capital, with the Hermitage.

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Mountains · Train journeys

Trans-Siberian Railway

Russia

The world's longest train ride.

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Nature · UNESCO

Lake Baikal

Russia

The world's deepest lake.

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Cities · UNESCO

Kazan

Russia

Where Russia meets Islam, with a mosque and a cathedral in one Kremlin.

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Heritage · UNESCO

Kizhi

Russia

A 22-domed wooden church, on a lake island.

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Nature · UNESCO

Kamchatka

Russia

Bears and a land of volcanoes.

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Heritage · UNESCO

Golden Ring

Russia

Old white-stone towns.

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Mountains · Skiing

Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana

Russia

A Black Sea resort, and the mountains of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Mountains · UNESCO

Altai Mountains

Russia

Siberia's wild peaks and lakes, sacred to their people.

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Heritage · UNESCO

Solovetsky Islands

Russia

A White Sea monastery fortress that became an early gulag.

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Cities · UNESCO

Veliky Novgorod

Russia

One of Russia's oldest cities, with its kremlin.

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Cities · UNESCO

Kyiv

Ukraine

Gold-domed monasteries and a resilient capital.

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Cities · Castles

Kamianets-Podilskyi

Ukraine

A fortress town on a river island, in a loop of canyon.

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Cities · UNESCO

Odesa

Ukraine

A grand port, with its famous stairs.

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Heritage · History

Chernobyl

Ukraine

The site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, and an abandoned Soviet city.

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Mountains · Skiing

Ukrainian Carpathians

Ukraine

Hoverla, Ukraine's highest peak, and wooden Hutsul villages.

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