Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 7 minutes ago

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Kalmykia! This is Kalmykia!

Join me as I set off on a journey from Moscow to the steppe lands of Southern Russia, flying into Astrakhan and Elista as I embark on an adventure to the legendary Motherland Statue of Volgograd.

As I progress towards my goal to visit every single federal subject in Russia, I am proud to say that Astrakhan was number SIXTEEN!

Here's where I stand as of now:

Moscow ✔️
Moscow Oblast' ✔️
Saint Petersburg ✔️
Leningradskaya Oblast' ✔️
Vladimirskaya Oblast' ✔️
Yaroslavskaya Oblast' ✔️
Ivanovskaya Oblast' ✔️
Krasnodarskij Kraj ✔️
Tulskaya Oblast' ✔️
Tatarstan Republic ✔️
Tverskaya Oblast' ✔️
Nizhegorodskaya Oblast' ✔️
Kaluzhskaya Oblast' ✔️
Murmanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Ryazanskaya Oblast' ✔️
Astrakhanskaya Oblast ✔️
Kalmykia Republic ✔️

Which means I'm at 17/85. Still 68 to go! Hopefully a lifetime will be enough ⚠️