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If you sail to or from St. Petersburg in late June or early July you will experience the Midnight Sun. The city is located so far to the North that sun does not set entirely on it at nights.
It starts getting colder in Moscow and St. Petersburg in September, but if you sail south of Moscow to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan, you can catch the last days of the summer and observe an amazing Golden Autumn.
Best time to go
There has probably never been a better time to come to Russia. It is developed, safe and offers plenty of interesting things to explore. But you should be mindful of the time of year that you embark on this adventure. Everyone knows that Russia could be very cold (as we have all seen in Doctor Zhivago) and its rivers freeze, so the river cruises run only from May to September.If you sail to or from St. Petersburg in late June or early July you will experience the Midnight Sun. The city is located so far to the North that sun does not set entirely on it at nights.
It starts getting colder in Moscow and St. Petersburg in September, but if you sail south of Moscow to Rostov-on-Don or Astrakhan, you can catch the last days of the summer and observe an amazing Golden Autumn.
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