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Alphabet first. Here are no signs in latin letters. Could you understand a sing like "туалет" in Cyrillic? "Tualet" means "toilet", I guess you could get what it means. Or "милиция" -"militsiya"...

I think even 1000 will be enough there, espesially if you don't plan to stay in a hotel and eat in restaurants. The average salary in Kurgan I guess is not more than $400 a month, it's a very poor...

Achilles, there is a direct flight from Istanbul to Yekaterinburg by Turkish Airlines. Kurgan is just 370 km to the east from Yekaterinburg. You can go there by bus or by train.