• Vologda - the capital of the Russian North
• Cherepovets - The Hot Heart of the Russian North
• Veliky Ustyug - The Homeland of Ded Moroz
• Kirillov - Holy Land
• Totma - City of merchants and seafarers
• Vytegra - The Land of the Ships

• Belozersk - The city of the epic tales
• Ustye - Coast of Russian antiquity
• Ferapontov Monastery
• Ustyuzhna is the Homeland of Gogol's "The Inspector"