Murgrad Pervomayskaya

Lipetsk · 2.5 mi / 4.0 km

Murgrad on Ulitsa Vodopyanova is the second branch of Lipetsk's first cat cafe, located behind the Ulitsa Smurgisa stop in the Oktyabrsky district. Like the main branch on Pervomayskaya, it is a time-cafe where cats from local shelters and volunteers wait for new families, and visitors can adopt a cat after an interview with its curator; the cafe has rehomed more than 130 cats since 2020. Visitors pay by length of stay, from half an hour to a full day, at slightly lower prices than the main branch, with drinks and snacks included. Board games are available. Guests wear disposable socks, wash their hands and may not pick up or hold the cats, and children under 14 must come with a parent. Opening times change often and are posted on the cafe's Telegram channel.

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Voronezh · 65 mi / 104 km

Myaurum, which uses the slogan "it's all about the cats", is a charity-run cat time-cafe on Ulitsa 25 Yanvarya in Voronezh's Zheleznodorozhny district, near the DK Elektronika stop. Visitors pay only for the time they spend, with tea and biscuits included, and can sit with the cats, read, watch television, play board games or a games console, or use the free Wi-Fi. The cats are rescues looked after by volunteer curators, and each is available for adoption; the cafe posts regular updates on cats that have gone to new homes. Staff can tell visitors about the history and character of each cat. Families with children are frequent visitors. The cafe opens in the afternoon on weekdays and from late morning at weekends.

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Voronezh · 67 mi / 108 km

Mr.Moore is a cat anticafe on Nikitinskaya Ulitsa in central Voronezh, about five minutes on foot from the Galereya Chizhova shopping centre. It has been open since 2015. About 20 formerly homeless cats live in two large rooms, and the cafe keeps the number below about 23 so the animals are not crowded. All of the cats are looking for homes, and hundreds have been adopted after prospective owners fill in an application. Visits are charged by time, with the hourly rate falling the longer guests stay, and tea, coffee and biscuits are included. Sleeping cats must not be woken, and the cats should not be squeezed or carried around. Guests can play board games, read or use a PlayStation 4, and the cafe holds game nights on Friday and Saturday evenings as well as film screenings.

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Tambov · 78 mi / 126 km

Koteykino is a cat anticafe on Sovetskaya Ulitsa in Tambov's Oktyabrsky district, in the 1000 Kvartir residential complex. Opened in March 2025 as the city's first cat cafe, it was founded by Marina Lukyanova with cats from Tambov shelters and has since rehomed more than 40 of them. Around 15 cats live there; each is tested, vaccinated, treated for parasites and sterilised before moving in. Adoption involves an interview, and adopters must have their own home and keep the cat indoors. Visitors pay for the first hour and then by the minute, with higher weekend rates, and tea, coffee and sweets are included. The cafe runs workshops, art therapy sessions, book evenings, small concerts and group singing, and sells cat-themed souvenirs and postcards.

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Kaluga · 191 mi / 307 km

Mekhovoye Kafe ("Fur Cafe") is a cat time-cafe on Ulitsa Akademika Korolyova in central Kaluga, near Tsiolkovsky Park; the entrance is from the courtyard. Running since 2015, it was the city's first cat cafe. About 20 cats live there, all from the Territoriya Koshek shelter, and they arrive vaccinated, sterilised and litter-trained; visitors who bond with a cat can adopt it. Visits are charged per person for the first hour and then by the minute, with a cap after three hours, lower rates for children and higher rates at weekends; tea, coffee and biscuits are unlimited. Guests remove outerwear, change shoes and use hand sanitiser, may photograph without flash and feed the cats only treats sold at the cafe. Children under 12 must be accompanied. There are board games and a non-alcoholic bar.

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Gus Khrustalny, Vladimir Oblast · 213 mi / 343 km

Kotiki i Kofe ("Cats and Coffee") is a cat cafe on the ground floor of a building in the Mikrorayon district of Gus-Khrustalny. Opened in July 2025 by local volunteers, it is the town's first cat cafe and was set up to tackle the problem of homeless cats. Rescued cats live in the cafe, where visitors can drink coffee, play with them and watch how they behave, and anyone who finds a cat they want to adopt is helped with the paperwork by the volunteers. The cafe shares before-and-after stories of cats it has nursed back to health. Opening hours vary through the week, with shorter afternoon hours on Thursdays and Fridays and at weekends.

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