Short trips of 1-3 days to different cities are becoming more and more popular in Russia and abroad. In the West, they even invented a special term for this - "city break". On the one hand, you can get acquainted with the sights, take a break from household chores and have a good time, on the other, the level of comfort for a citizen remains the same.
Where do the citizens of Russia prefer to make short trips - not oligarchs and not a narrow stratum of the middle class, but ordinary workers with limited finances? This was found out by the specialists of the Tvil.ru website, which has been helping to find and book holiday homes for more than ten years.
List of the best budget places for spring holidays in Russia 2019 was compiled according to the following criteria:
- The most popular cities for booking apartments from mid-March to the end of April.
- The price of a daily stay at the hotel should not exceed 2 thousand rubles.
- Resort cities were excluded from the ranking.
10. Novosibirsk
Average price: 1.8 thousand rubles
Accommodation time: 3 days.
Let's start with a list of the most popular Russian cities for inexpensive spring trips from Novosibirsk. This harsh Siberian city, by the way, is included in the top ten Russian megacities with the highest quality of life... And every year it attracts an increasing number of tourists (both Russian and foreign). Both residents of the region in search of entertainment and businessmen go there. At least 150 various business events are held annually in Novosibirsk.
And another popular destination is medical tourism, as there are many high-tech medical centers in the city.
9. Tyumen
Average price: 1.7 thousand rubles.
Accommodation time: 2 days.
Tourism in the Tyumen region is developing at a rapid pace, and last year for the first time it entered the "golden twenty" in tourism. The main attraction is, of course, the newly discovered project "The Imperial Route", which tells about the life and tragic death of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II.
The administration is intensively promoting the tourist potential of the city, holding bright, colorful festivals every year. True, April in Tyumen is not the best time for walking in the open air (the temperature rarely exceeds 9 °), so we recommend you dash from museum to museum, and then go to warm up and have lunch at a restaurant. By the way, the end of March and April is the traditional time for sales.
8. Tula
Average price: 1.5 thousand rubles.
Accommodation time: 3 days.
The popularity of Tula is created mainly by residents of the capital and the Moscow region, who want to diversify their working days with weekend trips. Most of the sights are conveniently grouped in the center, so you can visit the ancient churches, merchant mansions and the famous Tula Kremlin (preserved intact since ancient times) in just a day.
There is also a weapons museum in the city, which has assembled a unique collection of weapons practically unparalleled in Russia. It will be interesting to wander through the buildings of the museum even for convinced pacifists.
It should be added that Tula has recently been flourishing right before our eyes, although it still remains a fairly inexpensive city to live in.
7. Barnaul
Average price: 1.1 thousand rubles
Accommodation time: 2 days.
This is an indispensable rest point on the way to Gorny Altai or Lake Baikal. The city itself is small, the old districts, where most of the old buildings with wooden carvings have been preserved, can be bypassed in a day.
An additional plus - most museums are located in architectural monuments, so admiring antiquity can be combined with a cognitive aspect. And although it is still cold in the city in spring, the landscapes around it are worthy of special mention. Accommodation prices, by the way, are the lowest in the ranking.
6. Tver
Average price: 1.5 thousand rubles.
Accommodation time: 1.5 days.
Once upon a time, 700 years ago, Tver competed with Moscow for the right of primacy over all Russian cities. Now it is a small town where, surrounded by monuments of the great past, about 400 thousand people live.
Tver is one of the most popular weekend travel destinations that bring a pleasant variety to the life of Muscovites and residents of the region. And no wonder - it takes just over two hours to get there by express. You can go in the morning, check into a hotel and devote the remaining time to sightseeing, visiting museums and walking along the embankment, which carried through the 20th century the charm of a pre-revolutionary district Russian city.
5. Simferopol
Average price: 1.3 thousand rubles
Accommodation time: 1.5 days.
In Simferopol, tourists stay for a short time. The city is considered by visitors as a kind of gateway to the real Crimea, with its the most beautiful places, steppes, vineyards and beaches. There you can spend the night, take a quick look at the sights and go to sanatoriums and hospitals, which offer discounts on services at this slow time.
However, Simferopol itself is worthy of a tourist's attention. And although in March-April it is still cool there (average temperature is about 15 °), however, numerous parks are already dressing up with the first delicate spring greenery. Plus, due to the "passable" status of the city, it is not considered a tourist destination, and prices here practically do not change depending on the season.
4. Kaliningrad
Average price: 1.2 thousand rubles
Residence time: 5 days.
In Kaliningrad, "spring" tourists stay for a relatively long time. If in other cities from the selection of the best places for budget vacations in the spring in Russia they are delayed at most for two days, then they go to the amber capital for at least five days.
This is explained both by the specific location of the city (to get there, you must cross the territory of at least one country), and the abundance of attractions in it. Although the city itself is small (only 400 thousand people live there), the number of all sorts of interesting things per square kilometer is amazing. There, ancient German buildings, relics of the Middle Ages, cubic Soviet architecture and modern buildings are bizarrely mixed.
And although in the spring the weather in Kaliningrad, frankly, can please only a marine mammal that first crawled ashore, this is more than compensated for by the atmosphere and charm of the old city.
3. Yekaterinburg
Average price: 1.3 thousand rubles
Accommodation time: 3 days.
Although this city is relatively young (founded in the 18th century), there is something to see, from the majestic church architecture to the monument at the site of the execution of the royal family.
Yekaterinburg is also popular with tourists due to the abundance of inexpensive cafes and canteens where food is cheap and tasty. In addition to traditional sightseeing, Yekaterinburg residents have developed a new direction for Russians and foreigners - Soviet. Whole tours of the relics of the Soviet era are organized, where tourists live in rooms furnished with authentic furniture and eat according to traditional table recipes. There are even whole interactive puzzle quests where those who wish can try on the role of a Western spy
2. Krasnodar
Average price: 1.6 thousand rubles
Accommodation time: 2 days.
Spring comes to Krasnodar early, in March the temperature is above zero and flowers begin to bloom, and in April the sun is already warming with might and main. Delicate greenery that has not yet had time to coarse, many flowers, alleys, as if shrouded in a snow-white floral halo - is this not an idyll for a man who escaped for a couple of days from a city still covered with snow?
And although the weather in spring is still not entirely stable (at night about 10 degrees, in the daytime over 20 degrees), many tourists come to Krasnodar at this time. True, only the hardiest swim at this time (the water temperature in April barely exceeds 11 °). However, the granary of Russia is not ready to please the guests by bathing alone. Sanatoriums, boarding houses and water clinics hospitably opened their doors to all comers; in spring, discounts for weekend tours reach 50%.
1. Kazan
Average price: 1.7 thousand rubles.
Accommodation time: 3.5 days.
Kazan turned out to be the most popular city for inexpensive tourist trips in the spring of 2019. It is not the first year that the capital of Tatarstan has been in the top 10 most beloved tourist places by Russians, and it is not surprising that it is a very beautiful city in which antiquity and modernity, East and West are bizarrely combined, and Orthodox churches are adjacent to Muslim minarets.
Kazan has a huge number of museums (84 in total) - from the House of Entertaining Science and Technology to the Tatar Sloboda Museum, there are zoos and aquariums, and the parks are some of the most beautiful in Russia.
For an ordinary inhabitant of the Central European Plain, Kazan and its inhabitants are exotic, but the level of dissimilarity is not high enough to cause discomfort. The city administration is well aware of the tourist significance of Kazan and strives to develop it in every possible way.