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Completed trips 2015
MAN-PUPU-NER road & snowmobile TRIP
DATES: March 22 - April 02, 2015 with Kolja Spoeri (Monaco-Germany) and Michael von Hassel (Germany).
ITINERARY: Moscow - Ivanovo - Kostroma - Yaroslavl - Vologda - Totma - Veliky Ustyug - Kirov - Perm - Ivdel - village of Vizhai - four days in taiga by snowmobile to Man-Pupu-Ner plateau - village of Vizhai - Ivdel - Yugorsk - Khanty-Mansiysk - Tobolsk - Tyumen - Yekaterinburg - Votkinsk - Izhevsk - Ulyanovsk - Moscow.
See photos of this peculiar and remote place in the northern Urals: HERE Think of making YOUR trip.
urals & west siberia road TRIP WITH JOHN BURKE (USA)
DATES: June 06 - July 03, 2015.
ITINERARY: Ulyanovsk - Orenburg - Magnitogorsk - Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Omsk - Novosibirsk - Tomsk - Mariinsk - Abakan - Askiz - mountain pass - Kyzyl- Abakan - Krasnoyarsk - Kemerovo - Gorno-Altaisk - Kosh-Agach (The Golden Mountains of Altai)– Byisk - Barnaul - Novosibirsk - Omsk - Tyumen - Tobolsk (+ Pokrovskoe & Abalak) - Surgut - Noyabrsk - Kogalym - Khanty-Mansyisk - Serov - Verkhoturie - Nevyansk - Yekaterinburg - Izhevsk - Yelabuga - Ulyanovsk.
RUSSIA & KAZAKHSTAN ROAD TRIP WITH LARRY LEVENTHAL (USA)
DATES: May 06 - June 02, 2015.
ITINERARY: Ufa - Sterlitamak - Orenburg - Magnitogorsk - Kurgan - Omsk - Petropavlovsk in Kazakhstan - Astana - Karaganda - Pavlodar - Semipalatinsk - Ust-Kamenogorsk - Barnaul (back in Russia) - Akademgorodok - Gorno-Altaysk - Novokuznetsk - Kemerovo - Krasnoyarsk - Abakan - Mariinsk - Tomsk - Novosibirsk - Tatarsk - Ishim - Shadrinsk - Lake Turgoyak - Ufa.
central russia road TRIP
DATES: July 06 - July 22, 2015 with Tony Childs (USA) and Robin Purchase (Australia).
ITINERARY: Ulyanovsk - Domodedovo – Borodino – Staritsa – Ostashkov – Volgoverkhovie (the source of the Volga River) – Staraya Russa – Veliky Novgorod – Pskov – Izborsk – Pechory – – Smolensk – Katyn – Bryansk – Oryol – Kursk – Prokhorovka – Belgorod – Voronezh – Zadonsk – Elets - Lipetsk – Tambov – Penza – Saransk – Ulyanovsk – Bolgar – Kazan - island-town of Sviyazhsk – Cheboksary – Yoshkar-Ola – Nizhny Novgorod – Murom – Ryazan – Kulikovo Pole – Yasnaya Polyana – Tula – Kozelsk – Kaluga – Domodedovo - Ulyanovsk.
family ROAD TRIP SCOTLAND - WALES - ENGLAND
DATES: February 03 - February 25, 2015.
ITINERARY: Glasgow - Stirling - Pitlochry - Kinguissie - Inverness - Loch Ness - Fort Williams - Oban - Inveraray - Fyne Ale brewery - Loch Lomond - Kilmarnock - Lochwinnoch - Edinburgh - Lochwinnoch - Turnberry - Girvan - Portpatrick - Carlisle - Liverpool - Cowny - Penmacho - Carrog - Aberystwith - St.David's - Newport - St.Ives - Land's End - Portsmouth - Arundel - Worthing - Windsor Castle - London - Canterbury - Folkstone - Gatwick.
