From Russia with love

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. It is considered among the world's clearest lakes and is considered the world's oldest lake— at 25 million years. In game, it is available with Sailing, and it provides 2 food, 1 production, 1 culture from lakes. Also it gives 3 culture, 5 more with Navigation. +10% growth in all cities. All river and tundra tiles produce +1 food. Adds 1 citizen to all cities and 1 point to Engineers birth rate.

Saint Basil Cathedral

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. A world famous landmark, it was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600. The building is shaped as a flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, a design that has no analogues in Russian architecture. In game it is available with Metal Casting and it provides 5 culture, 5 more + 5 Faith with Printing Press. One free prophet. Gives 2 incense. Provides a free Pagoda, which produces 5 faith. Adds 1 point to Artists birth rate and 1 to all cities.

The Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theater is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bove, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The theatre's original name was the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, while the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater (demolished in 1886), was called the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. In game, it is available with Currency and it provides 3 culture, 10 more with Radio. +25% to this city culture, 1 global population and 3 points to Musicians birth rate.

The Kungur Ice Cave

Kungur Ice Cave is a karst cave located in the Urals, near the town Kungur in Perm Krai, Russia, on the banks of the Sylva River. With a length of explored passages over 5 km, it is one of Russia's biggest karst caves and the only one in the country equipped for visits by tourists. Over thousands of years rainwater dissolved the soft rocks and formed a system of spacious underground halls, filled with rocks of peculiar shapes. In game, it is available with Mining and it provides 4 culture, +25% to workers speed. Each worked source of gold, silver, marble and gems produces +5 gold and 1 culture. +10 production with Iron Working. 1 point to Engineers birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Peterhof Palace

One of St. Petersburg's most famous and popular visitor attractions, the palace and park at Peterhof (also known as Petrodvorets) are often referred to as "the Russian Versailles", although many visitors conclude that the comparison does a disservice to the grandeur and scope of this majestic estate. Versailles was, however, the inspiration for Peter the Great's desire to build an imperial palace in the suburbs of his new city and, after an aborted attempt at Strelna, Peterhof - which means "Peter's Court" in German - became the site for the Tsar's Monplaisir Palace, and then of the original Grand Palace. In game, it is available with Steel and it provides 5 culture, +33% to Great People birth rate. +15 gold with Archaeology, 1 point to Writers birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Saint Isaac's Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. One hundred and eighty years later the gilded dome of St. Isaac's still dominates the skyline of St. Petersburg. In game, it is available with Philosophy and it provides 4 culture, +10 culture and faith with Architecture. Provides 1 faith for every animal resource worked by the city. Provides a free Cathedral. 1 point to Writers birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

Valley of Geysers

The Valley of Geysers is a geyser field on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, and has the second largest concentration of geysers in the world. This 6 km long basin with approximately ninety geysers and many hot springs is situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, predominantly on the left bank of the ever-deepening Geysernaya River, into which geothermal waters flow from a relatively young stratovolcano, Kikhpinych. In game, it is available with Calendar and it provides 2 culture, +10 more after adopting Cultural Centers policy. +10 food with Fertilizer. 2 culture, 1 production, 1 food from worked jungle, oasis and food plains tiles. 1 point to Scientists birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Mamayev Hill

The Motherland, or The Mamaev Monument, is a statue in Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the largest statue in the world in 1967. Today, it is the tallest statue of a woman in the world. In game, it is available with Chivalry and it provides 5 culture, +12 more with Rifling. +50% to Great Generals birth rate and 20 free experience from this city. 1 free Great General. +1 production and 1 food from hills. +25% attack and defense in hills. 1 point to Scientist birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Vasyugan Swamps

The Great Vasyugan Mire - the largest mire system in the northern hemisphere of the planet - is located in the central sector of the West Siberian plain, which is a geographical phenomenon because of extremely wide spread of mire. The mire takes a considerable amount of the territory of the country between the river Ob and the river Irtysh. In game, it is available with Trapping and it provides 4 culture, +15 production with Industrialization. +20% to workers speed. 1 food and production from forest and jungle. 1 food and 2 culture from furs. +50% attack and defense when fighting in marsh and tundra. Double movement in marsh and tundra. 1 point to Writers birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Russian Modern Art Museum

Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that concentrates its activities exclusively on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inauguration, the Museum has expanded its strategies and achieved a high level of public acknowledgement. Today the Museum is an energetic institution that plays an important part on the Moscow art scene. In game, it is available with Scientific Theory and it provides 12 culture and +2 to each city population. + 50% culture in this city. 3 artworks slots. 100% Tourism output from Great Works in this city and 1 point to Artists birth rate.

The Novgorod Kremlin

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is a historical centre of Nizhny Novgorod, the city heart, and the place that the history of Nizhny Novgorod was started. Nowadays Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is said as the grandest and the most majestic medieval fortress extant in the central Russia. As per the experts there is not any similar construction that would have the same level difference between its two parts (the Kremlin is located on the hill) and so it was one of the most perfect engineering-fortification erections of its time. In game it is available with Dynamite and it provides 3 culture, -25% to upgrading cost and +25% to military units production. City gets +50 HP defense. +2 production from every worked horse pasture and +2 production from krepost, stable, military academy, walls, castle, military base and arsenal. 1 point to Engineers birth rate and 1 to all cities.

The Raifa Monastery

The Raifa Monastery of the Mother of God (Raifsky Bogoroditsky Monastery) is a monastery for men located in the Russian Diocese of Kazan. The monastery was established in 1613. in what is now the Republic of Tatarstan. Closed during the Soviet years, the property, in 1991, was the first monastery in the Diocese of Kazan and Mari to be returned to the Church of Russia. In game, it is available with Optics and it provides 4 culture, 1 faith and 1 food from every worked luxury in this city. 1 point to Writers birth rate and 1 citizen to all cities.

The Moscow Red Square

Red Square is a city square (plaza) in Moscow, Russia. It separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow, because Moscow's major streets—which connect to Russia's major highways—originate from the square. In game it is available with Pottery and it provides 5 culture for each policy branch adopted, 5 more culture for each policy branch completed. 1 point to Merchants birth rate and 1 to all cities.

Moscow State University

Moscow State University is the oldest educational institution of Russia. It was founded on 12th of January 1755 on Saint Tatyana’s Day at the decree of empress Elizaveta Petrovna on the initiative of the great Russian scientist Mikhail Vassilievich Lomonosov after which it is named. In game it is available with Physics and it provides 3 culture, +75% science in this city.Scientist Specialists produces +2 science.

The Trans-Siberian Express

Undoubtedly the world's greatest railway journey, the Trans-Siberian Railway runs like a steel ribbon across mysterious Russia connecting east and west from Moscow over the Urals, across the magnificent and endless steppe and alongside the shore of the world's largest freshwater lake. Snow-dusted or sun-kissed steppe and taiga, the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall – the Trans-Siberian routes unite landscapes and experiences into the journey of a lifetime. In game it is available with Ballistics and it provides 15 culture and +3 to each city population. Starts a Golden Age. 3 additional trade routes for this city, +6 Gold from every trade route in this city and 4 points to Engineers birth rate.

The Sputnik Project

The Sputnik program was the world's first successful one to launch a rocket, a living being, and a human into Earth orbit. There have been dozens of Sputnik missions carried out by the USSR, each launch given a new number. History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I - the first man-made object ever to leave the Earth's atmosphere. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, then part of the former Soviet Union. In game it is available with Satellites and it provides +33% Production when building Spaceship Parts. 2 free Technologies and all spies are promoted. It also provides 1 free Scientist.