Yalta is among the top popular destinations for trips to Orthodox Christmas

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Orthodox Christmas is celebrated on the night of January 6-7 by four churches: Russian, Georgian, Serbian and Jerusalem. As well as Athonite monasteries, which also live according to the Julian calendar, and many Catholics of the Eastern rite.

The Russian hotel and apartment booking service TVIL.RU has identified the most popular travel destinations during the Orthodox Christmas period — from January 5 to 8. In first place was St. Petersburg with 14% of Christmas bookings, with Moscow and Sochi slightly behind (13% and 11% of bookings, respectively). So how much will Christmas travel cost? — noted in the press service of the service.

The ten most popular travel destinations for Christmas are:

1. St. Petersburg, Leningrad region — 5390 rub. / 4 nights*
2. Moscow, Moscow region — 5440 rub. / 3 nights
3. Sochi, Krasnodar region — 4374 rubles / 5 nights
4. Kazan, Tatarstan — 6836 rub. / 3 nights
5. Yalta, Crimea — 4329 rub. / 5 nights
6. Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory — 5757 rub. / 5 nights
7. Anapa, Krasnodar region — 2572 rubles / 5 nights
8. Gelendzhik, Krasnodar region — 4221 rubles / 4 nights
9. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod region ―6168 rub. / 3 nights
10. Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory — 4100 rub. / 5 nights

*Average cost per night/average trip duration

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