Zvezdnyi Hotel

Western European Russia


While it may not be central, this is a great-value option in a residential area near a park. The comfy rooms are spacious, there's a filling buffet breakfast served in the next-door Loft Hotel and an attached Japanese restaurant. Staff are friendly and the marshrutky stop is right across the road (15 to 20 minutes to the city centre, R20).


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Western European Russia attractions

1. Arms Museum - Tula Kremlin

2.85 MILES

The kremlin branch of the Arms Museum hosts temporary exhibitions displaying military weaponry from around the globe and spanning different wars…

2. Assumption Cathedral

2.91 MILES

The five burnished gold onion domes of this 18th-century cathedral rise over the ramparts of Tula's kremlin.

3. Tula Kremlin

2.93 MILES

This restored stone fortress, first constructed out of wood in the early 16th century, is home to the stunning 18th-century Assumption Cathedral. The…

4. Tula Samovar Museum

2.96 MILES

‘To take one’s own samovar to Tula’ is a Russian idiom coined by Anton Chekhov, denoting a pointless activity. Local production of this essential part of…

5. Lenin Statue

3.04 MILES

This giant Lenin statue looms large over Tula's central square (pl Lenina) with its brutal architecture of the old Soviet city.

6. Arms Museum

3.09 MILES

Tula has been a weapons manufacturing centre for centuries, a legacy celebrated at this fantastically kitted-out new building that houses an impressive…

7. Tula Necropolis

3.35 MILES

Set over 50 hectares, photography buffs will love this huge, gorgeously creepy graveyard, with hundreds of telegenic tombstones slowly being devoured by…

8. Antiquities Exhibition Centre

3.37 MILES

In this interactive museum split between two buildings, kids will get a kick out of the Stone Age and Bronze Age finds from the Tula area, including…