Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Russia
Detourmap lists 1,065 places in Russia, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (846). Best known: Lake Baikal. 537 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 1,065
- Oldest here
- Onega petroglyphs 3000 BC
- Little known
- 537 of 1,065
- City pages
- 5
By region
10 first-level divisions of Russia have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
5 cities in Russia have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in Russia 846
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1.Lake Baikal
Nature · Iconic
Freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world
Archaeological & historic sites in Russia 219
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6.Tanais
Archaeological · 3rd century BC · Notable
Ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, Russia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Russia?
Lake Baikal. Freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Russia?
1,065: 846 nature & landscapes and 219 archaeological & historic sites. 537 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Russia?
Onega petroglyphs, dated to 3000 BC. 195 of the 1,065 places here carry a founding date at all, and 9 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.