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A year ago I visited Moscow for 5 days, had gps in my mobile phone and found one cache. Next time I will take my Garmin for sure. In Moscow there is enough caches on geocaching.com site ; but outside almost nothing. I understand there is different site because of language, and with my very small skills I succeeded to find cache coordinates from geocaching.su site. They seems to let see coordinates without creating an account. Or is it so you find more caches if logging in to site ? Is it free of charge ? I also loaded a gpx file - but my software did not read it. I guess because of language again. But that´s small problem - the few caches on the way is easy to put in manually. Anyway, this gives motivation to learn russian so it´s not so bad. Even one traditional cache feels like big mystery to me You don't need to make an account on geocaching.ru to see all caches. But if you need to log your visit of course you need to make an account (it's free of charge). It's a little complicated to work with russian geosite as you need to know Russian but I'll try to help in some cases. There is a map with all caches. For example, Moscow and Moscow region - http://www.geocaching.su/?pn=103. Yellow dots on the map with letters T, П and B shows types of caches. T is traditional type. П is Multi-Cache or Puzzle Cache. And B is Virtual one. Well it's kind hard to find П or B type caches unless you speak Russian as you need to read carefully cache description. But for T type you don't really need to know Russian. Well, let's pay attention to T (traditional) type of caches. Let's check http://www.geocaching.su/?pn=101&cid=5393. On the left site of the page you could find coordinates as well as some other information about the cache. The coordinates are WGS84. Bottom of rating stars you could see some red links. If you need to export coordinates you need to click on "ЭКСПОРТ ТОЧКИ" link. A new window showed up. Choose GPX if you need it for your Garmin device. But you need to choose "перевести в транслит" option as well or you'll get an error on your Garmin device if you don't have Russian symbols. If you need help with geocaching.su just let me know and I'll make a short translation of description of traditional caches.

That's right! I am not sure what coders use for the site, but for php-coders there is always a problem with utf8_encode/utf8_decode function as it doesn't work correctly with cyrillic. I am as Russian unable to place a discription of a cache in English and plus in Russian. All I got after placing cyrillic symbols are ????????. If it'll be solved it'll be a great opportunity for Russian geocachers to place cache infos on gc.com. I am sure it's possible to make it as forum works great with cyrillics symbols. P.S. Testing: проверка See? It work's here.

I am from Russia. There is NO PROBLEM with using GPSr in Russia! Just take it with you when you come here and have fun searching caches. The only problem - not much caches reported on this site and most of them in Moscow or Saint Petersburg. I don't know why but a lot of caches reported on Russian web site but not here. Why Russian community want to be isolated from the rest of geocachers community - this is the question I am asking myself all the time. At May, 25, 2009 there are more then 5000 caches in Russia. If you could read Russian (again shame on Russian community) you may find a lot of caches all over Russia on www.geocaching.ru. If you need further help please contact me (by the forum or direct) and I'll try to help you.