Most popular Russian tourist destinations: The resorts of Sochi, Anapa, Gelendzhik and Tuapse in Kransodar Krai have been identified as Russia’s most popular tourist destinations by The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) followed by resorts in Crimea, the Kavkazkye Mineralyne Vody (KMV) health spa, the Golden Ring, Karelia and Siberia’s Lake Baikal. Meanwhile, the Oktogo.ru online booking site has placed Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Lake, Kazakhstan’s Borovoye resort, Naroch Lake in Belarus and Gagra and Khudat on the Black and Caspian Seas respectively as among the best holiday resorts in the former Soviet Union. News.az