The World’s Longest Tourist's Route Is Being Designed in Russia

A new tourist route will soon be presented in Russia. It is the longest route in Russia and the world: from Europe to Alaska ­– in the footsteps of the Great Northern expedition.

The press service of the regional administration has told the correspondent of tvbrics.com that dozens of the cities of the Urals, Siberia and Kamchatka participate in the project.

The route will include such Russian lands as Buryatia, Khakassia, the Altai, Krasnoyarsk and Perm Krais, the Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Chelyabinsk regions.

Today, route testers examine the road across the territories of the Urals and Siberia. It includes 58 settlements on the Great Siberian Road and near Lake Baikal.

The participants of the project "Along the Route of the Great Northern Expedition" will meet in Tomsk in order to map a tourist route in the wake of researchers of the expedition organized in the 18th century by Vitus Bering.

"The material collected during the expedition will serve as a basis for the tourist routes that reconstruct the directions of Kamchatka expeditions", says Ildar Mamatov, the member of the Russian Geographical Society, the author of the project "Along the Route of the Great Northern Expedition".

The project team is going to cover 12 thousand kilometers in 39 days. Project authors will check thematic tours in the cities and define the most significant places which will be indicated in online guides using augmented reality technologies.