This documentary showcases Russia's extreme geography: Mount Elbrus at 5,642 meters with active volcanic chambers beneath glaciers, the 5,000-year-old fortress of Derbent guarding the Caspian Sea, wooden churches at Kizhi standing without nails for three centuries, and St. Petersburg's baroque architecture rising from a swamp. Featured locations span Moscow, Kazan, Valaam Island, and the Kungur Ice Cave.
- Duration
- 51 min 54 s
- Start
- Moscow
- End
- Kazan Kremlin
- Stops
- 17
- Channel author
- GEO Discoveries
Timestamps and places
- — 4:56 — Caspian Sea & Derbent (Russia introduction)
- — Moscow (Moscow & Trans-Siberian railway)
- — Peterhof Palace (North Caucasus)
- — Mount Elbrus (Mount Elbrus (5,642 m))
- — Карелия, Россия (Derbent, oldest city in Russia)
- — Narinala Fortress
- — Solovetsky Monastery (Ancient Christian churches in Caucasus)
- — St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg (former capital))
- — Москва, Россия (Lake Ladoga & Neva River)
- — Hermitage Museum
- — Mariinsky Theatre
- — Valaam Island (Valaam Island, Lake Ladoga)
- — Kazan conquest
- — Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi (Moscow Metro)
- — Kungur Ice Cave
- — Kazan Kremlin (Continental divide marker)
- — Mount Belukha, Siberia
- — Yukok Plateau, Chinese border
Route on the map
Hidden Russia: The Most Impossible Country on Earth, Places No Road Can Reach |4K Travel Documentary