Istanbul in October has become a leader among the capitals, which the Russians visit most often - the number of tourists from Russia in the city is more than 185 thousand people.
According to the Department of Culture and Tourism of Istanbul, 185,339 Russian tourists visited Turkey's largest city in a month. Russians ranked first by the number of vacationers.
A total of 1 584 692 tourists arrived in Istanbul, among them 11.7% of Russians. Also in the city had a lot of tourists from Germany, Iran, USA, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Israel. The total number of foreigners who visited the Turkish metropolis for 10 months of this year reached 13,372,526 people.