Trans-Russia Motor Homes Rally – 2012

Russian Standard is organizing 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, Europe 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 Bashkirs andTartars 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 in Siberia... Most of the sleepovers will take place in the wilderness rather than in specialized campings that Americans and Europeans are used to. Although theoretically the Trans-Russia Highway is claimed to be asphalted, certainly many 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 or European 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 will always 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.

ROUTE

Duration: 45 days

Route: Vladivostok-St. Petersburg, 10500 km

Three days stay in Vladivostok

START

1.Vladivostok -  Khabarovsk 762 km, 8,5 hours

Intermediate: Spask-Dalny – Dalnerechensk – Bikin

2. Khabarovsk - Birobidjan (Jewish Republic) 176 km, 2 hours

3. Birobidjan – Belogorsk, 472 km, 5 hours

Intermediate: Obluchye, 145 km from Birobidjan

4. Belogorsk – Skovorodino, Amur Oblast, 549 km, 7,5 hours

Intermediate: Svobodny 55 km  , Shimanovsk 89 km, Tygda, 344 km

5. Skovorodino – Mogocha, Chita Oblast, 333 km, 4 hours

6. Mogocha – Nerchinsk, 384 km, 4 hours

7. Nerchinsk – Chita, 345 km, 4 hours

8. Chita – Ulan-Ude (Buryat Republic), 684 km, 8 hours

9. Ulan-Ude – Irkutsk (Lake Baikal), 448 km, 5 hours

Two days stay on Lake Baikal

10. Irkutsk – Tulun, 390 km 4,5 hours

11. Tulun – Krasnoyarsk, 650 km, 8 hours

12. Krasnoyarsk – Novosibirsk, 789 km, 10 hours

 Intermediate: Achinsk- Mariinsk – Kemerovo (515 km)

13. Novosibirsk – Barabinsk, 327 km, 4 hours. Lake Chany

14. Barabinsk – Omsk (336 km) or Ishim (650 km)

15. Ishim – Tumen, 297 km, (4 hours)

16. Tumen – Perm (682 km)

17. Perm – Kazan (543 km)

18. Chelyabinsk – Ufa (Bashkir)

19. Ufa – Kazan (Tatar)

One day stay in Kazan

20. Kazan - Nizhni Novgorod (400 km) - Vladimir (240 km)

22. Vladimir – Moscow (185 km)

Two days stay in Moscow

23. Moscow – St. Petersburg (687 km)

Two days stay in St. Petersburg.

 FINISH

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St. Petersburg – Turku, Finland: 392 km

For more details please contact organizers as follows:

In USA:

Russian Standard, Ltd.115 Mendham Ave, Suite 1A, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

Telephone/fax: +1-914-478-7557, Email:  temking@optonline.net  or info@rosstandard.com 

 In Europe:

Russian Standard Ltd, c/o RECC, Pribinova 25, P.O. Box 28, 81011 Bratislava, Slovakia

Telephone: +421 907 167 714  Email: mail@rosstandard-europe.com