In the first half of the year, Russia was visited by 5.85 million foreign citizens, 81.5 thousand of them for tourism purposes.

In the first half of the year Russia was visited by 95% fewer foreign tourists (more…)

Australia

A state in the Southern Hemisphere, occupying the mainland of the same name, the island of Tasmania and several other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Australia has a population of 25,180,200 (31 December 2018), most of whom live in cities on the east coast. (more…)

Hundreds of Kalmykia pensioners have moved to live in Europe and America, KalmykiaNews reports.

The Pension Fund informs (more…)

Today, on October 8, 2020, Decree No. 243 established the Tourism Council under the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia, reported the Head of the Tourism Department of KalmykiaNews. (more…)

Exotic rural ecotourism and camels of Kalmykia

Yesterday, specialists from the Deutsche Welle television company from Germany (more…)

Lectures on Buddhism [ Ru ]

August 31 and September 1, 2013, in the city of Elista, will held lectures Rosie Fisher, reported by the Department of Religion.

Rosie Fisher is a student of Lama Ole Nydahl. (more…)

[ De | Es ] African students celebrate New Year in Kalmykia. On the eve of the New Year holiday, they enrich your vocabulary. Father Frost, Snow Maiden, Christmas tree – these words are familiar to students, report KalmykiaNews agency.

That foreign students have learned the subject better, teacher Vasily Kolodko uses games and visual aids. (more…)

Since September 24, the Kalmyk State University is hosting a seminar “Innovative technologies in teaching German” organized Kalmyk State University and Kalmyk Republican Institute for Advanced Training in Education for school teachers and high school teachers, informed International department of KalmykiaNews. (more…)

Representative of the Goethe-Institut Sklenar Judith Jenkes-Steinhübl (Judith Keyler-Mayer) from Munich (Germany) arrived in Kalmykia, to Kalmyk State University.

Information: Munich, Germany’s third largest city and the capital of the Free State of Bavaria, is indisputably (more…)

Stephan Werner. Story of a tourist from Germany

2012-05-03 > 142km. 412hm / sunny 27°C – 32°C / Ø18km/h / pedaling time 8:00hrs / elevation 133m, today passed 1000km mark since Simferopol (day 9) For some unknown reason, this morning I received a lot of gifts, whenever I stopped to ask for directions or just looking at things, mostly women gave me apples or sweets and wished me a safe trip. Russians are truly very friendly people.
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Stephan Werner, a traveller from Germany, has already reached the city of Astrahan during his bicycle tourist trip. The city is his next destination after Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, which he had passed six days ago. We wish him all the best and successful “travel to the East”. (more…)

As part of the investment project of “Falcon Capital” for the construction vetroenergoparka in Kalmykia Elista arrived in the company’s specialists “F&H Elektrotechnik GmbH” (Hannover, Germany), the press service of the company “KalmEnergokom”.

German specialists Ralph Hoppmann and Rainer Brust will hold a start-up operations at the two built windmills (wind turbines) in the village of Sandy Priyutnensky region of Kalmykia.

Will be made a full cycle – checking and adjustment of the engine and blades, oil changes and Some parts, tuning, and computer cooling systems, the test performance of two wind turbines wind turbines at full power. Final commissioning of wind turbines will result in complete readiness for the generation of “green” electricity. (more…)

On the territory of Iki Burulsky area on the principles of public-private partnership plans to build Autograd.

This was said yesterday at a meeting of potential investors, representatives of companies “Tilke GmbH & Co. KG” Van Ray (Germany) and Advisor to the Director of JSC “Setstroy” Yuri Shevchenko and members of the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia. Met First Deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Kalmykia, Vyacheslav Ilyumzhinov. (more…)

The book about Kalmyks was published in Germany [ Ru ]

The representative of Kalmyk abroad Elena Remileva visited Republic of Kalmykia.

Elena Remileva frequently comes to Kalmykia: visiting relatives and engaged in charity. The reason for this visit was the release of her book “Oirat Mongols. Review the history of European Kalmyks”. (more…)

13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group

From Thursday 24 March to Tuesday 29 March 2011 the 13th meeting of the Goose Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC was held in conjunction with the 4th meeting of the Russian Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group (GSDSG) of northern Eurasia in Elista, Kalmykia (Russian Federation).

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