Russian Arctic

You can find many extraordinary things in the Russian Arctic – they have ostrich farms, flying dogs, reindeer-herders who tell fortunes under the Northern Lights, and a long polar night that turns to daylight only once a year. Tourist with a penchant for history come here because the Russian Arctic was the birthplace of the Gulag, but there is a lot more to the region. You can try Lapp soup or stroganina cuts of frozen raw fish; you can spend the night in a choom teepee, or roam the snowy wastes of land on a snowmobile; you can celebrate New Year surrounded by bear dens, or visit the lost towns in the far-northern islands. It’s a place where dawn is a long-awaited event, but that in summer goes for more than 30 days without the sun ever dipping below the horizon.