Russia

Visit Remote and Forbidden parts of this massive country

Why should you choose Koryo Tours?

Choosing to travel to unusual destinations such as North Korea is a big decision, and choosing the right people to take you is an incredibly important part of that. Learn about how we facilitate tourism responsibly in some of the most interesting and unique destinations on our planet, and at the same time ensure you get the most out of your once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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Koryo Tours' Russia tours in 2022 will not be going ahead - but we plan to run trips in 2023 and beyond. This page will be updated when more information is available.

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Our decades of working in Russia, combined with a lifetime of interest in the historical, weird, and wonderful, we've worked hard to create a unique Russia experience. Our Russia tours bring you to areas in this vast and epic country otherwise unreachable - Tours will not take place in 2022. Drop us a line to be informed of future trips though

Norilsk - Remote Russia

Forbidden mining colony in the arctic circle. Experience frontier life at the top of the world - a region of Closed Cities open for you to visit only on this tour.

Magadan - Abandoned Russia

Formerly the most off-limits and darkest part of the country, now there is much to see and to learn in an odyssey through this evocative land of dereliction and hope combined.

Dereliction in Magadan Province Interior

Kadykchan - abandoned pioneer city. Magadan Province.

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Fighter Planes Monument

Military Park in Magadan City
Dneprovsky Gulag - mine entrance

This prison camp, for mining tin ore, closed in 1953. previously it was home to thousands of Zeks from Stalin's Gulag system
Kadykchan City - seen from apartment building rooftop

Built in 1963 and abandoned in the late 1990s. this pioneer city symbolises the lost fortunes of the region
Soviet Monument outside abandoned town of Atka

Such monuments litter the highways of deepest Russia - here our local partners pause for souvenir photos
Dom Sovietski - Kadykchan City

Lenin's shattered bust sits on a plinth. A symbol of the city's fate
Scientists Institute - Susuman

Idiosyncratic building in a semi-abandoned city far along the 'Road of Bones'
Dneprovsky Gulag

Slowly collapsing structures at this remote former prison camp. guardhouses, factories, and more
Abandoned Gold Processing Factory

Derelict factories such as this one are dotted along the 'Road of Bones'

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Fighter Planes Monument

Dneprovsky Gulag - mine entrance

Kadykchan City - seen from apartment building rooftop

Soviet Monument outside abandoned town of Atka

Dom Sovietski - Kadykchan City

Scientists Institute - Susuman

Dneprovsky Gulag

Abandoned Gold Processing Factory