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learn about Russia. Expat Stories.

looking for some interesting information about St Petersburg and other parts of Russia. This page has lots of information and videos about this fantastic country from a expats point of view.

Learn more about the Russia you’re probably not going to see on Western media with our resident expat from Australia.

In this video, I embark on a solo journey, travelling 4,000 km across Western Russia. With only a backpack, I travelled and slept, except for one night, only on trains. Along the way, I met with @TravellingwithRussell during my day visit to Moscow. Join me for this vlog of my Western Russia journey.

In this video, I met with @TravellingwithRussell in Moscow during my recent solo journey, travelling 4,000 km across Western Russia, and we took a walk around the Moscow City centre. We check out the historical Gum Mall, Red Square, Tverskaya Street and location of the first ever McDonald’s which opened in 1990 a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In this video, Comrade George and I, visit the abandoned pioneer camp named Iskra (or Spark – translation in English) located in Vsevolozhsk in the Leningrad Oblast, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. So join us on this adventure to the Soviet past where we experience the spark that once was!