Foreigners coming to Russia on business or for sightseeing have to decide where to stay: in a private apartment or a hotel. Renting a flat turns out to be more beneficial if you travel with friends, besides, many people see it as the way to be more independent. Here are some tips, which can make the procedure of renting a flat easy and safe.

Dmitry Krylov, the host of the Russian travel TV programme called Neputevye Zametki, was born on the 29th of 1946. He was born in the Far East, on a boat during a sea storm.

Fedor Philippovich Konyukhov was born on the 12th of December 1951, on the seaside of the Sea of Azov which is part of the Black Sea. Fedor`s father Philip is a descendant of fishermen whose family came from Arkhangelsk Province and his mother Maria comes from Bessarabia.

When the famous Russian navigator-expeditor V.M. Golovin was organizing one of his expeditions, Wrangell went to St. Petersburg where he managed to be accepted as a crew member of the sloop “Kamchatka”. Ferdinand committed his first around-the-world cruise to Russian America in 1817-1819, and returned to Russia with the lieutenant rank and St. Anna’s order of the 2nd category.

The international TV journalist and traveller Mikhail Kozhukhov is perhaps one of the most famous contemporary Russian travellers. He is smart, can speak three foreign languages, and always turns his TV programmes into interesting shows and master-class.

Some parts of this professional traveller’s biography sound like excerpts from an adventure novel. The number of Sundakov`s titles, professions, and exotic deeds makes you suspect that he is a more than one hundred year old long-liver.

Afanasy Nikitin was a Russian merchant from Tver and the first European who travelled to India between 1466 and 1475 and left a journal of his notes known as The Journey beyond the Three Seas. His notes were found by N.M. Karamzin, an outstanding Russian historian of the beginning of the 19th century.