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Exciting news!
Russian Standard is orginizing a Motor Homes Expedition across Russia. It will cruise about 7,000 miles from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg and blaze a trail for a new annual RV route. This first-ever 45-day RV Rally will take place in the summer of 2012 under the motto “The Roads That Connect Us”, and is dedicated to closer business interaction between the USA and Russia.
The project is endorsed by the Russian Federal Committee for Tourism, Russian Trade Mission in New York, Russian European Chamber of Commerce and related regional governments of the Russian Federation. We have secured organizational and logistical support of the Russian Caravanning League, Russian RV dealers and major tour operators. The Trans-Russia Rally will be broadly covered by Russian media and related traveler blogs.
The route goes through the most interesting cities and towns of Russia, mountain rangers, Siberian wildwoods, world’s largest fresh water reservoir Lake Baikal, beautiful plains and great rivers of Mid Russia.
The travelers will meet a range of different ethnicities including the Buriats, the Jews in the Russian Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, the Bashkir, the Tartars etc.
This route is by no means an easy one. Russian roads leave much to be desired and have very little infrastructure: there won't be many McDonald's Drive-Thrus in SIberia... Most of the sleepovers will take place in the wilderness rather than in specialized campings that Americans are used to. Although theoretically the Trans-Russia Highway is claimed to be asphalted, certainmany portions of it in Siberia are reported more like dirt roads. The expedition will be quite trying both on Recreation Vehicles and on their riders.
This virgin route so far has never been driven through by North American motor home travelers. German and French motorists drove parts of it, but never the whole route from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. The travelers will be offered a variety of the exciting sightseeing tours in historical Russian cities along the route.
The first caravan is expected to comprise at least 20 and not more than 40 motor homes from North America, to be shipped by sea from the United States West Coast to Russia and then returned back to the East Coast from a Baltic Port. A support team of 8 Russian organizers and guides will accompany the home travelers.
We are looking forward to your feedback. The sign up will continue till March 2012 - so you are welcome to join in. And of course, sponsors are invited - this will be a great opportunity to present your brands to the Russian Federation.
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