From March 25 to October 6, 2013 “Rossia” TV channel and the Russian Geographic Society with the support of a few TV channels and radio stations, web-portals and newspapers organized the Rossia 10 multimedia contest. The project was conceived as a nationwide contest, during the course of which citizens would be able to select 10 of the most interesting landmarks nationwide.

A new monument emerged in Murmansk. The sculpture portrays a cat with a knapsack, sitting on a bronze bench. The cat along with the bench weighs 120 kg. The monument was unveiled at the entrance to the amusement park on Lake Semyonovskoye.

Starting October 1, 2013 the Moscow zoo changed its operating hours to 10:00 to 18:00 schedule. Cash counters at the main entrance and at Children's Zoo stop working one hour before closing at 17.00.

It is planned to create an outdoor lilac museum. Lilac Garden, located on Schelkovskoye Highway, was founded in 1954 on the initiative of well-known breeder Leonid Kolesnikov and in 1975 it was transformed into a recreational area.

The total length of the pedestrian zone is more than 12 kilometers. The whole area is made in a unified waves style. Benches, pedestrian and bicycle paths and the roof of the new artists pavilion repeat its shape.

Divers picked up from Lake Chebarkul two more supposed fragments of Chelyabinsk meteorite. It was reported earlier that scientists from Chelyabinsk State University (CSU) have received for studying eight stone pieces picked up from Chebarkul during searches of the largest fragment of "Chelyabinsk” meteorite.

It is scheduled to open Republican Ecological Regional Forest Museum in the College of Construction Industry and Service in Gorno-Altaisk. Existing school museum exhibition will be completed with new historical expositions and exhibits.

Season of fountains in Moscow will finish on October 1, 2013. Because of an early cold snap in Moscow that was brought by the cyclone from the Arctic, the fountains in the capital will complete their work earlier than usual.

The total flooded area is more than 8 million square kilometers.

October 1 – 15, 2013 Barnaul will host a Festival of Chocolate for the first time. The best producers of chocolate from Russia, Germany and Poland will take part in this Festival.