Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk (Russian: Благове́щенск, blah-guh-VYEH-schyensk) is the capital city of Russia's Amur Oblast, located on the border with China. It is one of the oldest cities in the Russian Far East.

Get in

By train

By direct train from Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Tynda or Moscow, all of them pass through Belogorsk, the town on Trans Siberian Railway. Riding any other train will need connection in Belogorsk, from where you can also take a bus.

  • 🌍 Blagoveshchensk railway station.

By plane

By ferry or bus

Opposite the city, on the other bank of the Amur River is the Chinese city of Heihe. A ferry boat operates in warm seasons. In the winter, the border is crossed by bus.

See

Do

Annual festival "Amur Autumn" hosts art films and spectacles from Russia. One of the festivals was honoured by visit of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida.Official site.

Buy

  • Balsam. Local liquor.
  • Chinese vodka with snake

Eat

Chinese and Russian food.

Sleep

Go next

  • Heihe, a Chinese border city on the opposite side of Amur River
Routes through Blagoveshchensk
Irkutsk Skovorodino  W  E  Birobidzhan Khabarovsk


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