Birobidzhan's Soviet-era hotel was undergoing a renovation in mid-2017, and even though it's never going to be able to hide its origins due to the small rooms, it will look much smarter soon enough and room rates may rise. That said, it's comfortable and friendly with a good location on the local Arbat.
Hotel Vostok
Russian Far East
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
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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…
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Surrounded by trees on the pedestrian stretch of ul Sholom-Aleykhema is this quirky statue of Sholem Aleichem, whose much-loved Yiddish shtetl tales…
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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…
Nearby Russian Far East attractions
0.04 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…
0.31 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…
0.44 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…