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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 26 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Russia to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Russia for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Russia below.
 | 1990 - Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments | Cultural site |
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| 1990 - Kizhi Pogost | Cultural site | |
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| 1990 - Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow | Cultural site |
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| 1992 - Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands | Cultural site | |
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| 1992 - Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings | Cultural site |
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| 1992 - White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal | Cultural site | |
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| 1993 - Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad | Cultural site | |
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| 1994 - Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye | Cultural site | |
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| 1995 - Virgin Komi Forests | Natural site | |
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| 1996 - Lake Baikal | Natural site | |
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| 1996 - Volcanoes of Kamchatka | Natural site | |
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| 1998 - Golden Mountains of Altai | Natural site | |
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| 1999 - Western Caucasus | Natural site | |
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| 2000 - Curonian Spit | Cultural site |
 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments |  Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow |  Lake Baikal |
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| 2000 - Ensemble of the Ferrapontov Monastery | Cultural site | |
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| 2000 - Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin | Cultural site | |
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| 2001 - Central Sikhote-Alin | Natural site | |
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| 2003 - Uvs Nuur Basin | Natural site | |
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| 2003 - Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent | Cultural site | |
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| 2004 - Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve | Natural site | |
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| 2004 - Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent | Cultural site |
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| 2005 - Struve Geodetic Arc | Cultural site | |
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| 2005 - Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl | Cultural site | |
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| 2010 - Putorana Plateau | Natural site | |
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| 2012 - Lena Pillars Nature Park | Natural site | |
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| 2014 - Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex | Cultural site |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Russia are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Cultural space and oral culture of the Semeiskie |
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| 2008 - Olonkho, Yakut heroic epos |