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Abstract The economic, social, cultural, and cyclical events experienced by Russia, which has a significant share in Turkey's tourism, both with other countries and in itself are substantial. Since the progresses in these fields affect the tourism activity between Russia and Turkey and plays an active role in the decision-making processes of visitors from Russia. In this direction, the study aims to evaluate Turkey-Russia relations as part of tourism in the context of the number of visitors from Russia. In this research, statistical data analysis based on annual border statistics between 1973 and 2021 was also used besides literature review method. According to the findings, during the Soviet period income increases and constitutional regulations impact positively on the number of visitors to Turkey, however, the flu epidemic affected negatively. Although the immigration wave that started with the 1989 events increased the number of people coming to Turkey, it was not considered a tourism activity. For the period of the Russian Federation, facts such as pandemics, wars, and political and military crises that reduced the number of visitors were determined, unlike income increases. Considering the increasing trends, it was concluded that the brightest era in Turkey-Russia tourism relations was between 2000 and 2014.

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