Map of Russia
Note that Arzamas is to the SW of Moscow (450km)

Major tourist sights: over 100 forest reserves and national parks; the Volga, Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Amur rivers; lake Baikal; Balck sea resorts; peaks of the Caucasus mountains and Caucasian Mineralnye Vody resorts; Teletsk lake in the Altai mountains; geysers and volcanoes of Kamchatka;

in Moscow: the Kremlin, Red Square, the Mausoleum of Lenin, the Armory, the St.Basil's Cathedral, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Borodinop Panorama Memorial, the Museum of Andrey Rublyov, Kuskovo, Kolomenskoye, Ostankino, Tsaritsino, Arkhangelskoye Estate Nuseums.

in Saint-Petersburg: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Isaac Cathedral, the St.Peter and Paul's Fortress, the Alexandr Nevsky Monastery, the Kunstkamera, Peterhoff, Pavlovsk, Pushkin, Gatchina Palace and Garden Ensembles.

ancient Russian towns and "The Golden Ring": Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Suzdal, Vladimir, Sergiev Posad, Yuriev; the Historic and Architectural Museum in Smolensk, the Ivan the Terrible's Kremlin and Palace in Vologda, the Kizhi wooden Architecture Museum, the Historical Monuments of Veliky Novgorod, Solovetsky Monastery on the White sea, the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery and "Pushkinskie Gory" Museum in Pskov, the Kazan Kremlin (14-15th centuries), the Battle of Stalingrad (1942) Memorial Complex in Volgograd, the Museum (16-17th centuries) in Tobolsk