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Who are we?Founded by young creative leaders since 2010, we are heading to be the best choice for young generation with the mission of supplying the tours which are brand-new, unique and accompanied by highly professional services.Our major:Being a highly competitive travel operator:

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– Supply tours of reasonable cost which helps customers travel with their suitable budgets.

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– Share benefits of finance and training program from tourism field with company’s members as well as communities.Current position:Leading agent & operator for new tours in the North Vietnam.Take a large percentage of market capacity of these new tours.

Top 50 tour operators in Vietnam (population ~90 million people).Member of: The Responsible Travel Club of Vietnam (RTC), Hanoi small and medium enterprises association (HASMEA).Business  structure & sizeThe number of company’s members: 25 people.PYS operates as a family structure and we respect professional ethics.We focus on developing human resources in the company and try to improve every individual.We believe that each person has his own competence and position.We sit them in the most suitable position to help them develop their best competence and responsibilities in the company.The staffs are authorized to promote their highest responsibility to meet our customer needs and demands.In term of customers, PYS always protects the right of them and respect their desires in our tours.

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Tourists, travelers and trip advisors, the social psychology of travel and tourism..

Posted July 26, 2023 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods

• Travel is almost always a social activity, whether we like or not.
• Tourists and travelers are rather different from each other.
• We often give travel advice because it helps us, as well as to help others.

There are invariably other people around when we travel, including family, friends, bystanders, and the residents of the places we visit. Decisions we make about where, when, and how to travel are typically made with others in mind, even if we are not deliberately travelling with them. Have you ever selected a destination precisely to avoid (or seek) the crowd?

Travel, in other words, is social in nature.

Even at the planning stage, decisions about where to go and with whom are seldom solely about our individual choice. Social psychologists stress that our intentions are compromised by other people. We are easily swayed by prevailing routines and social norms.

Imagine you are trying to decide whether to visit Ibiza, Alaska, or Chihuahua. Your plans will probably be affected by social mediators, such as the potential for social encounters ( Who else will be there?) , our perceived social group identity ( Will I fit in with the kinds of people who will be there?), or an urge to conform or be different ( Are other people going or will I be the only one?) . Where and how we travel depends on how much we identify with or feel comfortable in certain social situations. A perceived lack of social competence in a social situation (cruise, hen party, pilgrimage, chess convention), may interfere with our plans. A decision, for example, about whether to go to a jazz festival or a silent retreat may well be affected by feelings of belongingness to a group. This said, the good news is that such group allegiances are far from fixed. For example, after your third world cruise, you might start to feel you belong a little more.

What is the difference between a traveller and a tourist?

Many of us people-watch at train stations and airports, leading us to categorise our fellow passengers. We may ask ourselves, which of these people are travellers and which are tourists? It is often said that tourist is a label we reserve for others, and traveller is what we like to call ourselves. In his novel about clashing cultures of North America and North Africa, The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles distinguished tourists, who enjoy visiting diverse locations for short periods, from travellers, who like to roam and are as comfortable in long-term transit as they are at home. Tourists often do their travelling under the protection of travel companies who do most of the organising and booking for them. Meanwhile, travellers roam relatively unprotected and are likely to have direct contact with culturally diverse people as they wander away from the beaten track.

A continuum of traveller types, from explorers to conservatives

Do you interact with host communities (a.k.a. "locals") when you travel, or would you rather keep your distance? A continuum has been proposed, to distinguish between so-called dependents, conservatives, explorers, and belonging-seekers , based on how much we like to interact with local communities whilst on our travels.

• Dependents typically travel in established groups (friends, relatives, parties) as part of a package tour, on short-term visits, and generally avoid extended or informal interactions with hosts.
• Conservatives have more host contact, though mainly to gain information or guidance. Communications with hosts typically involve speaking with local tourist representatives, hotel staff, tour guides, or taxi drivers.
• Explorers are more open to social contact with hosts and are eager to find out about them through casual conversation, often in the local language. Explorers determinedly stray into non-tourist sites and seek out locations that are off the tourist trail.
• Belonging-seekers, the most intrepid of all, self-identify as travellers, not tourists. They engage with locals, sharing experiences, participating in quotidian life. If invited, they visit hosts’ homes, share authentic cultural experiences, and report positive attitudes to a place and its residents. They often seek employment and learn the language.

This continuum is handy and informative, and can also be fluid. A visitor may begin as a conservative, yet the passage of time and cultivation of interest may see them flourish into belonging-seekers.

Why Trip-Advise?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said that nothing influences travellers more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. These trusted friends typically belong to online influencer communities. We don’t generally know them personally. Online word of mouth has overtaken old-school alternatives (asking neighbours and friends) as the go-to source for travel guidance. Over three-quarters of travellers consult online customer reviews when booking hotels. User-generated reviews are the dominant travel marketing promotional tool.

Why do some of us feel the need to offer travel tips to strangers? One motivation may be a resulting glowing feeling of belongingness to an imagined community of travellers. Writing travel advice can make us helpful or accepted by travel peers we will never encounter. Sharing travel tips can also be motivated by altruism (a social urge to be helpful) or by a desire for increased self-esteem .

Other rewards for online trip advising include enjoyment, a desire to exert power over large companies, and, of course, letting off steam or wanting to become an influencer. Trip advisors can be labelled as altruists (predisposed to help), careerists (keen to become influencers), hipsters (seeking connectedness), boomerangs (comment and like seekers), and connectors (keen to share).

Yet not all travellers write reviews. A large, silent majority of lurkers read reviews but don’t post, perhaps over concerns of security. Whatever the reason, it is worth remembering when planning your next adventure that most online trip advice is produced by a vocal minority.

We usually travel together, whether we like it or not.

Social psychology helps us understand various aspects of travel behaviour, such as purchasing patterns, travel typologies and trip advising. Above all, this branch of psychology reminds us that every phase of the travel adventure, from planning through experiencing and reviewing, takes place amongst bystanders, advisers, followers, and companions, all of whom combine to ensure that solitary travel is virtually impossible.

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Andrew Stevenson, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, England and the author of The Psychology of Travel .

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The Psychology of Travel Primer or, “Travel Psychology 101

There is no known theorized body of psychology that explicitly addresses questions of the psychology of travel. Of course there are some fundamental psychology 101 concepts that do apply, and these you will read below. Psychology, although a social science, still remains today an ‘art’ by which lay and scientific practitioners weave and create their explanations. Below, I weave my own fabric of explanations of the psychology of travel as they apply to the pop psychology of everyday travel and adventure.

1. Self-Esteem:  The majority of people tend to live very mundane lives. Anything they can do to enhance their own images of themselves elevates their estimates of their own sense of self worth in their own eyes and well as in the eyes of others. We all want to feel better about ourselves. To the extent that we can retrace, or reexperience the travels of others whom we hold in high regard enables us to feel in some way that perhaps we can identify with them, i.e., be more like them.

In some ‘magical thinking’ sense, by walking the walk and talking the talk, something of the rich and famous, and even the infamous, can ‘rub off’ on us in some way. Perhaps, in some way, we see ourselves as gaining some of the qualities of that master, soldier, statesman, artist or saint . . .

We also gain in self-esteem by gaining the respect and admiration of others who see that we have accomplished, retraced, reexperienced the adventures of these adulated people.

2. Achievement of Higher Order Needs:  For most travelers, the basic needs of sustenance, e.g., food, water, and so on are met. Higher order needs such as knowledge and achievement are often the rewards of travel. To this extent, if we can retrace the expeditions and adventures of historically famous adventurers before us, we can personally feel and experience the rewards of our own achievements. The more famous the adventurer, the more difficult the trek, the greater the challenge, the more sense of achievement we feel we accomplish by retracing the steps.

“Be all that you can be is the sense most of us have regarding difficult challenges and achievements.

3. Curiosity:  Perhaps the single greatest motivation or driving force serving the fulfillment of human needs is curiosity. Seeking new things, new experiences provides us with the means for satisfying our basic and higher order needs. We are very curious; in travel we seek new stimulation of all kinds. The search, drive or thirst for novelty, adventure and excitement are all in the service of reward and satisfaction. Travel is, of course, one of the best means for satisfying our curiosity: no other human endeavor provides us with the scope and variety of human experience across cultures.

4. Peak Experience:  We seek the peak experience, i.e., maximizing stimulation and passions afforded by the explosion of sights, sounds and fragrances of travel; seeking the mystical spiritual experience are all the means by which we seek to transform our often boring, mundane, uneventful existences back home.

5. Re-connecting / Re-validating Our Lives:  Travel enables us to make our current lives ‘more real’ by reexaming the present in light of the past. Thus, by retracing our ‘roots’, whether in a national or religious sense, for example by visiting places of our ancestors or by making religious pilgrimages or by revisiting famous historical or religious sights the vivid sensory experiences–the recreation of past to present tense enables us to ‘relate’ and re-identify. Re-connecting / Re-validating by visiting famous places or by retracing the steps of famous people adds to our sense and knowledge of reality by creating immediacy for us through our senses of what for us was merely mental imagery.

Perhaps T. S. Eliot’s famous poem illustrates this best:

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

6. Excitement and Adventure:  We seek the romantic; we seek excitement and we seek adventure. But what, really, is excitement? Adventure? To consider what excitement and adventure truly are, we need to consider that, for the most part, people are quite fearful of the unknown, wary of what is different, afraid of change, prone to culture shock. Is there a paradox here?

Interestingly, adventurous, romantic and exciting travel, is, to some extent, precisely so BECAUSE OF the element of discomfort, insecurity and potential danger. We seek romance, excitement and adventure TO A POINT just to the point of ‘danger’, so-to-speak . . . I use the word ‘danger’ in the sense as anything that tends to tip the balance of comfort, security, safety in the direction of discomfort, insecurity and risk, both psychological and otherwise . . . Of course, one person’s sense of adventure is another’s greatest phobia or fear. Riding the Zambezi River rapids is one person’s thrill and another’s white-knuckle near-death experience.

The balance between romance / adventure / excitement and culture shock / fear / discomfort is a fine line. I think travelers try to maximize their own sense of excitement and adventure by stretching the envelope, i.e., by experiencing all that they can experience, just short of where their fear factors lie. Excitement and adventure balanced against the fear of the unknown is probably the fundamental travel dynamic. Excitement may be defined, then, as coming as close to danger / discomfort / insecurity without actually being in danger…

To retrace the same adventures that famous explorers have done here-to-fore enables us to attempt to reexperience a bit of the unknown which was greater at the time but which is somewhat muted now hence adventurous but not quite so risky. It is easier to face climbing a mountain peak that has been breeched before than it is to face it for the first time.

7. Robert Frost wrote:

Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less traveled by . . .

By following in the retraced footsteps of the rich and famous and the infamous somewhat carefully re-orchestrated or re-choreographed steps of these others without the great fear of the unknown or without the great insecurities or dangers or cultural shocks we are able to experience these grand tours perhaps another variant of tours as in eco-tours or cultural safaris we are able to experience these semi-organized sorts of ‘adventure travels’ reasonably safely and assuredly. We don’t have to be the originators of these treks; we merely need to repeat them in order to reap the psychological bennies that fuel the human psyche…

What better way to max our curiosity, passion, adventure, excitement, romance and liking and understanding ourselves all the more for it while enhancing our lives in every way what better way than to follow in the safe and secure footsteps of people whom we admire and respect and who have been there, done that before what better way to stretch our own sense of adventure, excitement and resulting achievements by following the paths of those who came before us.

Dr. Michael Brein; 06/22/2006

* Dr. Michael Brein is The Travel Psychologist living on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He is an avid world-traveler as well as author, publisher and lecturer on a variety of travel subjects. His travel guide series, “Michael Breins Travel Guides to Sightseeing by Public Transportation may be viewed at www.michaelbrein.com. Michael Brein may be reached at [email protected] or 206.618.7618.

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Putting the Passion of Psychology Back into Travel

Why we miss travel so much, according to psychologists

Simran Sethi has rarely stayed in the same place for longer than four months in eight years. She's an author, an educator and a public speaker , yet she says "her identity has been defined by travel."

"I wrote a book that took me to five continents," she told me during a Sunday morning phone call to Mérida, Mexico, where she's been since January. "When I started moving, I thought it was temporary ... But I'd get to the next place and say, 'Where do I see myself?' And I just kept coming back to, 'I see myself everywhere.'"

But now that the novel coronavirus has caused the near shutdown of travel, she says, "I don't know who I am anymore."

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Sethi isn't alone. Frequent flyers and travel professionals have described a range of emotions in response to the shutdown of travel operations all over the world . Some say they feel irritable and unmotivated — others are craving the anticipation and excitement that comes with just knowing there's a trip around the corner. For people whose livelihoods are rooted in travel, they feel understandably anxious, confused and unfulfilled.

"Personally, I feel unmoored, a bit directionless ..." said travel writer Erin Lindholm , "because everything about how travel is going to look in the future is such an unknown right now." Lindholm says she's already feeling nostalgic about how easy it was, just a few months ago, to cross oceans and borders. "I deeply miss that human connection that invariably comes with travel ...."

It's easy to imagine that most people, even those who don't identify as frequent flyers or AvGeeks, are feeling ill at ease. But for people who consider themselves travelers, being on lockdown isn't just frustrating: It can unravel everything you thought you knew about yourself.

Inside a traveler's mind

"To understand why people like to travel, you have to consider the psychological needs that travel meets," said Seth Meyers , Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, television contributor and writer based in Los Angeles. "At [its] root, travel is a psychologically stimulating activity on a physical, visual and social level. Travel offers a break from the monotony of daily routines and often pulls people out of their comfort zone to the point that they often try new or unusual activities they wouldn't be inclined to try from ... their home base."

Michael Brein , Ph.D., a social psychologist and author with a specialty in travel, points to Maslow's pyramid, which illustrates the hierarchy of human needs. Once your basic physiological and safety needs are satisfied, you can begin ascending the pyramid. You fulfill your psychological desire for belonging and love; then develop your self-esteem; and ultimately reach self-actualization, way at the top of the pyramid.

If you're a frequent flyer, you may be satisfying your psychological needs, growing your confidence and achieving self-actualization all through the act of travel.

"[Travel is] so stimulating and memorable," Brein said. "We remember our connections with people more than anything else. [And] it happens so fast and furiously. We get rewarded [with] self-esteem and self-confidence. Travel puts you in a situation where new stimuli and novelty is coming at you so fast, and the more that it engulfs you and you incorporate it [in your life], the more you grow as a person."

Travel becomes not just the way we derive satisfaction, but the lens through which others see us and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.

"For men and women who travel extensively for work," Meyers said, "the travel — or the constant sense of being in motion — becomes a part of their identity."

It's a concept Sethi describes with the language of a frequent flyer.

"The question people ask [me] is, 'Where are you in the world right now?'" she explained. "They know this is who I am. I am the Executive Platinum status, Diamond Medallion status ... [Travel] is a central part of how I see myself and how other people see me ... I'm trying to reconcile how I relate to myself when I'm not out in the world, being fed by the world ... How do I orient myself at all?"

Coping with the loss of travel

While working as a policy executive with the Canadian government, Johanna Read kept experiencing burnout , something the World Health Organization has classified as an occupational syndrome. "Essentially, your life becomes a to-do list," she said.

After her second burnout, Read turned to a psychologist. "She helped me realize that I get bored very easily if I don't feel like I'm learning and growing. So, I create work for myself to keep feeding that insatiable need to learn and be challenged, which eventually leads to being overwhelmed with work and commitments." Then, she turned to travel.

Before the pandemic, Read — who is now a management consultant and freelance travel writer and photographer — says she traveled once or twice a month. "Exploring a new country and culture ... is the best way to satisfy my need to learn and be challenged."

Many frequent travelers, Brein said, are high-energy and seek novelty. He describes serious travelers as people who are "quest-oriented seekers" and "action-oriented participators." During this time of shelter-in-place orders and self-isolation, "we're not getting that sort of satisfaction in our lives that travel offers us," Brein explained. "It's no wonder we're going to feel more pent-up, anxious [and] frustrated."

So, how do you cope with having your wings clipped?

"I have other techniques to keep burnout at bay that I need to rely more on right now," Read said, citing mindfulness exercises, writing and other creative activities, taking walks and enjoying time outside.

Meyers says that looking forward — and preparing for a time when we're not all sheltering in place — can help people manage the loss of travel.

"To reignite a sense of hope and freedom, start designing your first post-quarantine trip today and be ready when health officials determine it's safe to travel again," he said. "Research shows that the anticipation of a vacation brings more satisfaction than the actual vacation itself, so men and women can derive some gratification during quarantine simply by looking forward to their next planned trip."

Brein also says it's a good time to think about what comes next. Maybe you'll lose yourself in a book about someone else's travels, or your own travel photographs . But as long as you're "realistic and cautious," he said, you can begin to ask yourself, "What can I do next?"

There may be no substitute for travel that feels as deeply enriching and satisfying, especially for those of us who use it to maintain excitement, manage anxiety, connect with others and stay challenged and engaged. But this time in lockdown has helped some travelers gain a new perspective.

Finding home

When a work trip came to an abrupt halt, travel writer Olivia Balsinger found herself quarantining alone in a secluded bungalow in Krabi, Thailand. She tells me it's the longest she's been in one place for half a decade. "Without the distraction of where and what my next move will be, my mind [is] churning," Balsinger said. "I question why I never took the time to breathe in the first place, or why I've always believed my life needs to be set in the fast lane."

Now, after 51 days, Balsinger said she began "to realize [her] constant need to schedule travel was to fill a void."

The more time she spent away, the more she felt estranged from her home. "Suddenly, I wasn't going home anymore because I didn't know what home was ... My priorities will shift when we can begin traveling again. I want to build more of a base and feel more grounded."

Balsinger isn't the only traveler who has developed a new interest in the concept of home.

"I am definitely experiencing a shift," said Robin Hutson, a family travel advisor and founder of LuxeRecess.com . "My internet escapism has shifted from travel to real estate websites, fantasizing [about] where I want to hunker down."

Brein says travel can be "a form of escapism," and an opportunity to shift gears or to gain perspective. But that for all of us — whether we're frequent flyers, self-proclaimed road warriors, nomads or simply people who love to travel — it's important to have a home base, or at least carve out the time and space to apply our experiences and anticipate what's next. "I think it's good to take this time, which is such a rare opportunity, to contemplate all of [your experiences] and see how that may contribute to your own sense of self."

Whether you've found yourself home for the first time in years, or have simply discovered a new understanding of what home is or could be to you, Brein says now is the moment to rest, recuperate and regenerate. Settle down, if only for this strange, unexpected moment and, in anticipation of the new travel experiences ahead, decide where and how you want to go forward.

You might even discover an entirely new understanding of what home is to you. Perhaps home is the people you travel with. Perhaps it's the city you return to again and again to recharge. And just maybe, it's a bungalow overlooking the Andaman Sea that you can call your own.

"Who knew," Balsinger says over email, "that a sleepy beach town in Thailand in the midst of the global pandemic would be the reason this perpetual nomad, normally operating at the speed of light, would want to permanently settle down?"

Sethi says she misses airports. "I miss looking at the board and figuring out where I need to be ... I'm fumbling in the pandemic, but drop me in any airport anywhere in the world and I will figure that out."

In airport terminals and new, unfamiliar cities, is where Sethi feels most at home. "These are the skills I've acquired — they're what I miss. I just can't wait to get out there and travel again."

Feature photo by martin-dm / Getty Images.

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Kemerovo city, Russia

The capital city of Kemerovo oblast .

Kemerovo - Overview

Kemerovo is a city located in the southeast of Western Siberia in Russia, in the northern part of the Kuznetsk coal basin (Kuzbass), about 3,600 km east of Moscow. The administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, it is an important industrial, transport, economic, scientific, and cultural center of Siberia.

The population of Kemerovo is about 548,000 (2022), the area - 295 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3842, the postal codes - 650000-650970.

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31 October, 2010 / The ship-house in Kemerovo oblast .

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26 March, 2018   / On Sunday, March 25, in the shopping and entertainment center "Winter Cherry" in Kemerovo there was a severe fire, more than 60 people were killed. This tragedy became the second largest fire in present Russia in terms of the number of victims. Our condolences to the families and friends of the dead and injured.

History of Kemerovo

The history of the development of Kemerovo is closely connected with the development of Western Siberia. The oldest settlement on the territory of today’s Kemerovo was the village of Scheglova located on the right bank of the Tom River and first mentioned in 1701.

In 1721, the ore prospector M. Volkov found “combustible stone” (coal) near this village for the first time in Kuzbass. However, at that time this discovery didn’t lead to any practical steps for the development of these coal deposits.

By 1734, not far from Scheglova, along with a number of other villages, the village of Kemerova emerged (later Kemerovo; named after the first settler A. Kemirov). In 1825-1827, the Shcheglovskoye coal deposit was studied by geologists. In the 19th century, there were several villages in the territory of the future city.

In 1907, the Kemerovo mine was founded on the basis of the Shcheglovskoye coal deposit. In 1915, the main shaft of the Kemerovo mine was built. In 1918, the village of Scheglovo was transformed into the county town of Scheglovsk. In 1921, coal production in Kuzbass began to rise. In 1926, the population of the town was about 22,000 people.

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With the development of industrial construction, the town began to grow. In June 1930, a session of the Town Council considered a draft design for the planning of Scheglovsk. The city was designed for 130 thousand residents. When considering the project, the question arose of the name of the city. The residents actively participated in the discussion of this issue.

It was decided that the name of the former village of Shcheglova didn’t have a direct historical connection with the city specialized on the extraction and processing of coal. On March 27, 1932, Shcheglovsk was renamed Kemerovo. Its further development was associated with the rapid development of industrial production. In 1938, the city had more than 100 industrial facilities. In 1939, Shcheglovsk had about 133,000 residents.

In 1941, during the Second World War, a number of plants were evacuated from the western regions of the USSR to Kemerovo. Gunpowder and explosives were produced at local defense enterprises. On January 26, 1943, the Kuzbass Industrial Region received the status of a separate region (oblast). Kemerovo became the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast.

In 1945, Kemerovo was a miserable sight with numerous dilapidated buildings and undeveloped streets. The city urgently needed a development and improvement plan, which was made over four years from 1947 to 1951. Kemerovo developed according to this plan until 1970. The city continued to grow, absorbing nearby villages. In 1989, the population of Kemerovo was about 520,000 people.

On October 16, 2006, the Kuznetsk Bridge was commissioned in Kemerovo - one of the widest bridges (40.5 meters) in Siberia, which replaced the obsolete Communal Bridge.

In today’s Russia, Kemerovo, as before, is a large industrial center. Income from coal mining occupies a major place in the total income of the city.

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Kemerovo cityscape

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Kemerovo - Features

The city of Kemerovo is located in the forest-steppe strip of the southern part of Western Siberia, in the northern part of the Kuznetsk coal basin, on both banks of the Tom River at the confluence of the Iskitim River. The right-bank part of the city is connected to the left bank by two automobile and one railway bridges.

The climate of Kemerovo is sharply continental. It is characterized by a long cold winter lasting about 5 months and a short, quite warm summer. The average temperature in January is minus 17 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19 degrees Celsius.

The City Day is celebrated on June 12 and coincides with the Day of Russia. On the last Sunday of August, Kemerovo celebrates Miner’s Day. The airport of Kemerovo located about 2.5 kilometers south-east of the outskirts of the city offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Sochi.

On the coat of arms of Kemerovo you can see the image of a stylized chemical retort and gear parts that symbolize the chemical and engineering industries - the main directions of industrial development of this city. Ears of wheat symbolize the fertility of soil associated with the use of mineral fertilizers produced at the chemical enterprises of Kemerovo.

Kemerovo is one of the largest industrial centers of the region (chemical and coal industries, mechanical engineering, electric power generation). JSC “SDS Azot” is one of the largest manufacturers of nitrogen fertilizers in Russia. The presence of raw materials (coal, refractory clay, limestone, quarry stone, gravel, wood), a convenient industrial site, and railway communication led to the creation of a powerful energy-chemical complex here.

The recreational potential of the city is represented by a pine forest on the right bank of the Tom River, as well as an island and beaches on the Tom River.

In total, there are more than 100 objects of cultural heritage in Kemerovo. These are monuments of architecture and urban planning, monumental art, history and archeology. Kemerovo is in the full sense a city of miners and most of its attractions are somehow connected with the mining industry.

Main Attractions of Kemerovo

“Krasnaya Gorka” - a museum-reserve created on the territory of the former coal mine. The district of Krasnaya Gorka (“red hill”) is an open-air museum. Here, on the steep bank of the Tom River, you can see a unique complex of monuments of mining, historical and cultural heritage. The monuments constitute a single thematic complex associated with the development of the coal industry of Kuzbass. The exposition “Coal Mine” is open in the basement of the museum. Krasnaya Gorka Street, 17.

The Red Hill and the monument “In Memory of the Kuzbass Miners” . One of the most important places in Kemerovo, part of the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve. The history of Kemerovo began here. This name originates from flashes of fire at the site of the first coal discovered in Kuzbass. It is one of the highest places in the city with the best observation deck of Kemerovo. Also there is an impressive monument dedicated to miners here.

Vesennyaya Street - one of the oldest streets in Kemerovo about 1.5 km long. In the middle of the street there is a boulevard - a popular resting place for locals and visitors of Kemerovo. Here you can see a number of interesting sculptural compositions.

Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts . The collection of this museum includes more than 5 thousand works of art, most of which are on display in the permanent exhibition. In the halls of the museum visitors can see the paintings of Russian artists created from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st centuries, works of masters of decorative and applied art, an excellent collection of old icons. Sovetskiy Avenue, 48.

Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore - the oldest museum in the region with a large collection of natural and historical monuments of Kuzbass. This museum has one of the largest paleontological collections in Russia. Sovetskiy Avenue, 55.

The museum “Archeology, Ethnography, and Ecology of Siberia” . Here you can learn about the history and nature of this unique region. There are exhibitions about the flora and fauna of Siberia, Kazakhstan, the Far East, and Central Asia. The archaeological section has collections of artifacts related to the Stone and Bronze Ages, the Scythian and Hunnic periods. Separate halls are devoted to ethnography. Sovetskiy Avenue, 77.

The Coal Museum - the only museum of coal in Russia. The Kemerovo region is one of the largest suppliers of coal in Russia, the variety of coal mined here is recognized globally. Here you can see unique collections of coal, exhibits devoted to mining technologies and the history of the development of the Kuznetsk coal basin. Leningradskiy Street, 10.

Chudes (Miracles) Park - the oldest park in Kemerovo opened more than 80 years ago, a great place for families. Playgrounds with safe swings and carousels for kids, rides of varying degrees of extremeness, sports grounds, the Children’s Railway, a ferris wheel attract a lot of visitors. There are several cafes in the park; in the evenings, artists perform on stages. The pedestrian promenade along the bank of the Tom River begins here. Kirova Street, 4.

“Kuzbass Railway Museum” - a small museum of rare railway equipment. The exposition consists of ten exhibits and is located in the city center near the Pionerskaya station of the Children’s Railway. Pritomskiy Avenue, 2.

Kemerovo also has such cultural institutions as a philharmonic, a drama theater, a puppet theater, a musical theater, and a circus.

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The movie theater Moskva (Moscow) in Kemerovo

Kemerovo Regional Drama Theater

The Chapel of the Icon of the Mother of God of All Who Sorrow in Kemerovo

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Chudes Park in Kemerovo

Monument to Lenin in front of the administration of Kemerovo Oblast

Znamensky Cathedral in Kemerovo

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