Short trips for 1-3 days to different cities are becoming increasingly popular in Russia and abroad. In the West, they even came up with 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 fun, on the other hand, the level of comfort for the city dweller remains the same.
Where do Russian citizens prefer to make short trips - not oligarchs and not a narrow middle class, but simple workers, limited in finances? This was found out by the specialists of the site Tvil.ru, which for more than ten years has been helping to find and book accommodation for vacation.
List of the best budget places for spring break in Russia 2019 compiled by the following criteria:
- The most popular cities for booking apartments are from mid-March to late April.
- The price of a daily stay in a hotel should not exceed 2 thousand rubles.
- Resort cities were excluded from the rating.
10. Novosibirsk
Average price: 1.8 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 3 days.
Let's start the list of the most popular Russian cities for inexpensive spring trips from Novosibirsk. The same harsh Siberian city, by the way, is one of 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 diverse business events are held annually in Novosibirsk.
And another popular area is medical tourism, as the city has many high-tech medical centers.
9. Tyumen
Average price: 1.7 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 2 days
Tourism in the Tyumen region is developing at a rapid pace, and last year it first entered the "top twenty" in tourism. The main bait is, of course, the newly opened project “The Imperial Route”, which tells about the life and tragic death of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II.
The administration is actively promoting the tourist potential of the city, holding bright, colorful festivals every year. True, April in Tyumen is not the best time for walks in the open air (the temperature rarely exceeds 9 ° C), therefore we recommend that you make a dash from museum to museum, and then go in to warm up and have lunch at a restaurant. By the way, the end of March and April is a traditional time for sales.
8. Tula
Average price: 1,5 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 3 days.
The popularity of Tula is created mainly by residents of the capital and the Moscow region who want to diversify their workdays with weekend trips. Most of the attractions are conveniently grouped in the center, so you can visit the ancient churches, merchant houses and the famous Tula Kremlin (preserved from ancient times intact) literally in a day.
And in the city there is a weapons museum, which has collected a unique collection of weapons that is practically unparalleled in Russia. Wandering through the museum will be interesting even for staunch pacifists.
It is worth adding that Tula has been blooming right before our eyes, although it still remains a fairly inexpensive city to live in.
7. Barnaul
Average price: 1,1 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 2 days
This is an indispensable holiday destination on the way to Gorny Altai or Lake Baikal. The city itself is small, the old areas where most of the old buildings with wooden carvings have survived can be bypassed in a day.
An additional plus - most museums are located in architectural monuments, so that admiring antiquity can be combined with the cognitive aspect. And although the city is still cold 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
Duration of stay: 1.5 days.
Once, about 700 years ago, Tver competed with Moscow for the primacy over all Russian cities. Now it is a small city where about 400 thousand people live surrounded by monuments of a great past.
Tver is one of the most popular places for weekend trips that bring a pleasant variety to the life of Muscovites and residents of the region. And no wonder - go there by express for a little over two hours. You can go in the morning, settle in the hotel and devote the remaining time to sightseeing, visiting museums and walking along the promenade, which has carried through the 20th century the charm of the pre-revolutionary district Russian city.
5. Simferopol
Average price: 1.3 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 1.5 days.
In Simferopol, tourists linger for a short time. The city is considered by visitors as a kind of gateway to the present Crimea, with its most beautiful places, steppes, vineyards and beaches. There you can spend the night, quickly see the sights and go to the sanatoriums and hospitals, which at this ambitious time provide discounts on services.
However, Simferopol itself is worthy of the tourist's attention. And although it is still cool in March-April (average temperature is about 15 °), however, numerous parks are already dressing with the first tender spring greens. Plus, due to the “passing” 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
Duration of stay: 5 days.
In Kaliningrad, "spring" tourists stay relatively long. If in other cities from the selection of the best places for budget holidays in the spring in Russia they are delayed by force 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 (in order 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), however, the amount of all sorts of interesting things per square kilometer is amazing. Old German buildings, relics of the Middle Ages, cubic Soviet architecture and modern buildings were bizarrely mixed there.
And although in spring the weather in Kaliningrad, frankly, can only please a marine mammal that first crawled ashore, it more than pays for the atmosphere and charm of the ancient city.
3. Yekaterinburg
Average price: 1.3 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 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 on the site of the execution of the royal family.
Yekaterinburg is also popular with tourists due to the abundance of inexpensive cafes and dining rooms where food is cheap and tasty. In addition to the traditional sightseeing, Yekaterinburg developed a new direction for Russians and foreigners - the Soviet one. Entire tours of relics of the Soviet era are organized, where tourists live in rooms furnished with authentic furniture and eat according to traditional dining recipes. There are even entire interactive puzzle quests where people can try on the role of a Western spy
2. Krasnodar
Average price: 1.6 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 2 days
Spring arrives in Krasnodar early, in March it is already above zero and flowers begin to bloom, and in April the sun warms up with might and main. Tender, not yet had time to roughen up greens, many flowers, alleys, as if shrouded in a snow-white floral halo - is this not an idyll for a person who escaped for a couple of days from a city still littered with snow?
And although the weather in spring is still not quite stable (at night about 10 degrees, in the afternoon 20 and a little), however, at this time many tourists come to Krasnodar. True, only the most hardy swim at this time (the water temperature in April barely exceeds 11 °). However, not by bathing alone the breadbasket of Russia is ready to please the guests. Sanatoria, boarding houses and water hospitals hospitably opened their doors to all comers; in spring, discounts for weekend tours reach 50%.
1. Kazan
Average price: 1.7 thousand rubles
Duration of stay: 3.5 days.
Kazan was the most popular city for inexpensive tourist trips in the spring of 2019. This is not the first year that the capital of Tatarstan has been included in the top 10 tourist destinations most beloved by Russians, and it is not surprising - it is a very beautiful city, combining antiquity and modernity, East and West, 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 oceanariums, and the parks are some of the most beautiful in Russia.
For a simple inhabitant of the Central European Plain, Kazan and its inhabitants are exotic, but the level of dissimilarity is not so high as to cause discomfort. The city administration is well aware of the tourist significance of Kazan and strives to develop it in every way.
