According to a poll from the Levada Centre, a total of 28 percent of respondents say that they will stay home this summer, while 24 percent say they will go to their cabin. Meanwhile, two percent say they will visit other parts of Russia and six percent that they will go to the “near abroad”, the other former Soviet countries.
Read also: Tourism in Arctic: attractive and accessible
Only three percent of the respondents say that they this summer will visit other parts of the world. The poll is based on 1600 respondents from 130 settlements in 45 Russian regions.
According to newspaper Vedomosti, this vacation trend has remained more or less unchanged for a number of years. The newspaper explains this with a strong historical connection with countryside among Russians, of which as many as 45 percent own a piece of land. However, the newspaper also explains the trend with the post-soviet legacy of closed societies. Reportedly, as much as 79 percent of Russians have never been abroad, while 82 percent speak no other language than Russian.
