Aura shopping and entertainment center worth about $200 million opened in Yaroslavl on Thursday, becoming city's largest shopping mall.

The region's first zoo opened near Tyumen. In the new zoo it is possible to see a roe, which feels quite freely in the spacious open-air cage. There are also goats, camels, Siberian tiger and leopard. Zoological garden has a real henyard with beautifully decorated cages and different bird species.

In Kabardino-Balkaria a great job was done by the opening of ski season: ski slopes and cableways, provided with safety elements for tourists and holidaymakers are ready to go, the press service of regional administration reports.

Finally, the monkey house in Kaliningrad Zoo opened its doors to visitors on November 24. The renovation of the premise cost nearly 400 million rubles.

Chechen Republic Government Committee of Tourism organized a get-to-know tour around the republic. Members of the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society in Chechnya helped to organize the trip.

On November 22 ice skating rink "Silver Ice" opened in Izmailovo Park of Culture and Recreation. It is a great place for active winter holiday with well-developed infrastructure.

The city that could become the Arctic capital was chosen online. The visitors of "Arctic-Info" website were invited to vote for one of the six cities, which are often mentioned as the capitals of Arctic.

Russian Ded Moroz (Father Frost) celebrated his birthday in Veliky Ustyug on November 18. He said he is over two thousand years old now and announced the countdown to the New Year holidays.

After frosty weather has settled in Moscow, entertainment complex will start working in All-Russia Exhibition Centre. There will open the largest free naturally frozen skating rink in Moscow.

During excavations in Supseh village near Anapa, archaeologists found two farmsteads that were built in 3rd century BC. To answer the question of who lived in these houses, they have to discover the remains of ancient inhabitants.