Hotel Bira

Top choice in Russian Far East


Easily the pick of the hotels in Birobidzhan, the Bira is modern, with large and comfortable rooms that have fridges and safes as well as the more standard appliances. There's a sauna on-site as well as a billiards room, and the location is good.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Russian Far East attractions

1. Sholem Aleichem Statue

0.34 MILES

Surrounded by trees on the pedestrian stretch of ul Sholom-Aleykhema is this quirky statue of Sholem Aleichem, whose much-loved Yiddish shtetl tales…

2. Freud

0.63 MILES

A five-minute walk west from the centre on ul Lenina is a complex containing Birobidzhan’s Jewish culture centre, Freud, and a synagogue with a small…

3. Regional Museum

0.75 MILES

This museum has an excellent exhibit on the arrival of Jewish settlers to Birobidzhan in the 1930s, plus boars and bears and a mini-diorama of the…