Perhaps the most popular cruise route in this direction is the "Moscow Circumnavigation": a two-day ring route with boarding and descending in Moscow and visiting such cities as Uglich, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kalyazin, Kasimov, Kostroma, Ryazan, Ples, Murom, Pavlovo, Konstantinovo. The popularity of this cruise is high, and because of the incompleteness of the Moscow River and the Oka, it is possible only in the spring and early summer and only on two-deck ships, so the number of people is limited.

Cruise "Two Capitals" is popular not only among Russians, but also foreign tourists. The route runs through two channels (Volga-Baltic and Volga-Moscow), rivers (Volga and Svir), lakes (Ladoga and Onega), Rybinsk Reservoir and includes both modern industrial cities (Cherepovets, Svirstroy, Petrozavodsk) and beautiful ancient townships (Kizhi Pogost, Valaam, Kizhi, Uglich).

Cruise from Moscow to Astrakhan includes visits to Samara, Ulyanovsk, Uglich, Makariev, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Kostroma, Ples, Volgograd, Saratov, Cheboksary.

Traveling by water from Moscow to Perm includes the cities of Yaroslavl, Yelabuga, Myshkin, Chistopol, Makaryev, Ples Tchaikovsky, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Cheboksary, Kozmodemyansk, Kostroma, Kazan, Uglich.

The most exotic cruise route is Ufa, called "Moscow of Five Rivers": it passes along the rivers Moscow, Oka, Volga, Kama and Belaya. The main cities: Konstantinovo, Makaryev, Yelabuga, Ryazan, Pavlovo, Cheboksary, Kasimov, Kazan, Murom, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa.

Cruises from Moscow regularly replenish with new points: Kostroma (Galich-Susanino-Domnino); Kineshma (Shchelykovo); Sheksna (Vologda); Yaroslavl (Rostov the Great-Pereslavl-Zalessky); Mariinsky Posad; Cousin; Uglich (Martynovo); Vesyegonsk; Yaroslavl (Karabikha); Gorodets (Semenov); Kineshma (Ivanovo-Suzdal); Rybinsk (Poshekhon); Borok; Yadrin; Breitovo; Ples (Red on the Volga); Velikiy Novgorod; Vitoslavlitsy and many others.