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Rosneft and the Ministry of Economic Development, Investment, Tourism and Foreign Relations of the Orenburg Region presented a new route, Steppe Stories. The presentation of the tourist auto route took place in the city of Buzuluk at the Bashneft gas station (part of Rosneft). The guests of the event also took part in an educational quiz with a drawing of useful travel prizes.
The tourism project is the result of joint work of the Company and regional authorities aimed at developing domestic tourism and infrastructure. Rosneft creates comfortable conditions for car travelers, improving the quality of services at its petrol stations and actively developing roadside services.
The new route has already been presented on Rosneft’s special information and service platform – “Horizons of Russia: Come with us!" Thanks to the unique navigation functionality, all interesting locations become stops on the route, which the car tourist can independently collect and change at any time during the trip, based on personal interests and taking into account the location of the services necessary for car tourists.
The 250 km route runs from the city of Buzuluk to Aksakovo through the picturesque steppe landscapes of Western Orenburg. Travelers following from Buzuluk to the north of the region will be able to visit the Buzuluksky Bor National Park, the largest relict forest in the steppe Eurasia, about 10 thousand years old. Here you can find giant pines with a circumference of more than 4 meters. One of the oldest trees in Russia, the Queen Pine, also grows in the park; its age exceeds 300 years.
The next attraction on the way is the cave hermitage of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in Buzuluk. The great Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy visited the elder who lived in these caves. The monastery had an important spiritual significance for the residents of the Orenburg and Samara provinces. Today, tourists and pilgrims can visit the holy spring, chapel and cells, which are connected by vaulted galleries.
A poetic and musical point on the route is the village of Vorontsovka, founded by Count Vorontsov in the 18th century. Here, the future bard Vladimir Vysotsky first picked up a guitar. The village club named after him keeps rare photographs, a guitar, letters and memories of the legendary guest.
Further along the route, travelers will be able to visit the village of Derzhavino, the estate of the Derzhavin family, founded in 1750 by the father of the famous Russian poet and statesman of the Enlightenment era. The village has preserved an 18th-century church built with funds from Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin.
The village of Preobrazhenka in the Buzuluk district is the Orenburg estate of the Karamzin family. It was here that the "Count of Russian History" Nikolai Karamzin was born almost 300 years ago.
The route ends in the Buguruslan district, where in July 2025, after a large-scale restoration, the museum-reserve of the writer Sergei Aksakov was opened. On an area of more than 500 hectares, not only the buildings, but also the entire historical landscape have been restored.
There are Bashneft gas stations located at an optimal distance along the route, where tourists can fill up their car with guaranteed high-quality fuel, have a comfortable rest and buy necessary goods on the road, including locally produced goods.
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The Orenburg Region is one of the key regions of Rosneft's operations. "Steppe Stories" became the third tourist route developed by Rosneft and the Ministry of Economic Development, Investment, Tourism and Foreign Relations of the Orenburg Region. In 2024, as part of the "Horizons of Russia" project, the interregional route "Power of Nature" was opened from Orenburg to the capital of Bashkortostan, Ufa, and "Relict Pearl" – from the capital of the region to the Buzuluk Forest.
The Bashneft network of petrol stations in the region includes 89 petrol stations. The retail network of NK Rosneft is the largest in the Russian Federation in terms of geographical coverage and number of stations, and the Rosneft petrol station brand is one of the leaders in Russia in terms of recognition and fuel quality. In total, the Company operates about 3,000 petrol stations.
Rosneft actively supports initiatives to develop domestic tourism – together with partners, over 40 routes for car travel across regions of the Russian Federation have already been developed. Some of them are already presented on the Horizons of Russia platform. With its help, you can plan a trip to interesting places through the infrastructure of roadside services and Rosneft gas stations in the constructor mode.
Department of Information and AdvertisingPJSC NK RosneftAugust 14, 2025
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