Silver Ring of Russia

In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Culture to work out and implement a tourist project that would unite the cultural and historical centers of North-West Russia. According to the idea, the project was supposed to contribute to the development of the region by attracting investments.

In February 2015, the Vologda Oblast hosted an All-Russian conference on the creation of a new historical, cultural and tourist project. The conference was convened at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Culture. It was decided to create and implement an interregional historical, cultural and tourist project called "The Silver Ring of Russia". The possibility of implementing the project exists thanks to the support of the Federal Agency for Tourism and the Ministry of Culture.

Unlike the Golden Ring of Russia, which mainly encompasses the cities of Vladimir-Suzdal, the Silver Ring of Russia includes mainly the cities of the Novgorod Land. At the beginning of 2019, the Silver Ring of Russia includes all 11 constituent entities of the Federation included in the Northwestern Federal District: Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Vologda, Murmansk Oblasts, the republics of Karelia and Komi as well as Nenets Autonomous Okrug.[1] In 2019, on the regular Russian Hanseatic Days, which are held annually by the Union of Russian Hanseatic Cities, the Russian cities-members of the Hanseatic League of the New Time decided to join forces in the development of event tourism within the framework of the Silver Ring, using the program "Hanseatic Roads".[2]