Russia

Northern Dvina timber heritage, Pomor maritime culture and the UNESCO cultural landscape of Kenozero Lake

Sixty-metre Baltic coastal sand dunes, Immanuel Kant's island cathedral and pine-shaded resort towns

Northern Lake Ladoga fjords, the flooded marble canyon of Ruskeala and Finnish National Romantic Sortavala

Tatar and Orthodox spires inside the UNESCO-listed Kazan Kremlin and the island town of Sviyazhsk

Ipatiev Monastery at the Kostroma confluence, radial trading arcades and Isaac Levitan's Volga hills

Fifteenth-century Kremlin cathedrals, patterned domes on Red Square and world-class art collections

Thirteen red-brick Kremlin towers above the Oka and Volga confluence and nineteenth-century trade-fair avenues

Lake Onega's granite embankment and the twenty-two silvered aspen domes of Kizhi Pogost

Limestone fortress walls at the Velikaya confluence, UNESCO-listed belfries and Pechory Monastery

Laccolith domes, Lermontov's nineteenth-century spa pavilions and the mineral parks of Kislovodsk

Neva embankments, Rastrelli's Baroque palaces, granite canals and the State Hermitage

The UNESCO-listed Trinity Lavra of St Sergius, blue-and-gold domes and woodcarving traditions

Subtropical Black Sea arboretums backed by the UNESCO-listed alpine peaks of the Western Caucasus

Giant glacial-boulder monastery walls, prehistoric stone labyrinths and twentieth-century memory in the White Sea

Twelfth-century carved white-stone cathedrals and Kamenka River meadows in the Golden Ring

Sixteenth-century red-brick Kremlin, samovar and gingerbread craft and Leo Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana estate