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(14 days / 13 nights)
1 day: Departure from Moscow by a comfortable train (you shall travel by it trough the whole Russia).
2 day: The train goes along the central part of Russia.
3 day: A stop in the city of Ekaterinburg, which is situated on the very border of Europe and Asia, on the banks of the Isset River. The city is famous for its history – there was the end of an ancient history of the Romavovs family – the Russian czars, a tragic murder of the whole czarist family took place in this area. Their remains were found in the 80-s and re-buried in 1998 in St. Petersburg. A visit to a place of execution of the last Russian czar Nicholas II and his family and the St. Elisaveta chapel.
4 day: An excursion to the boundary of Europe and Asia (40 km from Yekaterinburg). You will have an exclusive possibility to stand with one foot in Europe, with the other - in Asia.
5 day: The train goes along the Ural and Central Siberia.
6 day: Novosibirsk is the largest city of Siberia both by population and territory. It stretches along the banks of the beautiful river Ob.
7 day: An excursion to the famous Scientific town situated 28 km from Novosibirsk in the picturesque taiga forest on the shore of the Ob water reservoir. In its institutes there are conducted researches and investigations in the field of mathematics and nuclear physics, chemistry and genetics, biology and geology, ecology and philosophy, applied mechanics and hydrodynamics; the rich collection of the mineralogical museum. After a short motorboat ride along the Ob river you’ll visit the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, where ancient Siberian stone statues are exhibited.
8-9 days: The train goes along Siberia.
10 day: Finally we arrive in Irkutsk - the center of the Eastern Siberia, situated on the shore of the Lake Baikal. Irkutsk is a treasure house of the spiritual culture of Siberia. The most interesting things about the city are its historical ensembles in its central part: the Spasskaya (Savior) church, the Epiphany Cathedral, the Roman Catholic Church, the monument to the explorers of Siberia, the Drama theater etc.
11-13 days: The train goes along the Baikal and Primorski regions.
14 day: The main city of the Amur region: Khabarovsk. It is one of the oldest cities on the Amur River. You’ll visit an arboretum in the Hehzig game reserve; see the most interesting monuments of history and culture. The final destination of our trip is the city of Vladivostok. It is one of the most interesting and picturesque cities, situated on the pacific seaside, a large seaport of Russia. You’ll visit the Local Lore museum named after Arsenyev, which is very interesting and numbers a unique collection of exhibits; the oceanarium and the botanic garden. |
