Military Heritage Tour
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8 days / 7 nights
Tour program:
Day 1 Arrival to Moscow. Meet with guide and driver. Hotel check-in. Dinner in the hotel.
Day 2 Moscow city tour (3,5-4 hours). Includes all main highlights of Russian capital. Lunch The Museum of Cold War (Bunker-42). It's a unique museum dedicated to important period in human history named Cold War. Museum transfers you to 50th when relationship between USA and Soviet Union became critical and world lived in expectation of atomic war. Museum represents anuclear bunker, which was built in 1951 by the order of Stalin. Bunker was built with the same techniques like a metro and actually bunker has a common tunnels with Moscow subway.
Day 3 Armed Forces Central Museum, which walks you through military history from the beginning of the first regular army to the present time. The exhibition consists of over 800,000 military items. In the main area of the museum, you will see armed vehicles and equipment from cannons which were used during the 1918-22 Civil War right up to today's modern ballistic missiles.You will see and learn many new facts about arms and weapons from the World War II period, including modern artillery, rockets and aviation equipment (tank T-80, surface-to-air missile system C-300, a supersonic bomber with variable wing positions (changeable geometry of a wing) of the Su-24, MiG-29 and Su-27 jet fighters, a Soviet rocket CC-20 and an American rocket "Pershing-2"). Lunch Submarine - Museum B -396. Diesel Submarine was built in Nizhniy Novgorod and served in the North Fleet between 1980 and 2000. You will be taken to the torpedo section where you will see six torpedo tubes and the crew's diving suits. Also you will visit the accommodation section by walking through the control room where you can learn how to navigate. The museum guide will tell you about the unique and critical role of Russian submarines in a peace-keeping mission.
Day 4 Air Force Museum in Monino is located approximately 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Moscow and it is the largest and best aviation museum in Russia. Many of the Russian aviation Design Bureaus (Tupolev, Ilyushin, Antonov, Mikoyan, etc.) have contributed exhibits and resources to the museum and its maintenance. The aircrafts are in surprisingly good shape and most are sitting on the original tires they landed at the Monino airfield with. This is a testament to the museum employees who have a great historical legacy to preserve.
Day 5 Museum Of Great Patriotic War is located in the base of the Memorial Victory Complex on Poklonnaya Hill and covers more than 48.000 square meters. The Museum consists of the Entry Hall, the Halls of Glory and Memory, the Picture Gallery and six dioramas devoted to the most dramatic battles of the Great Patriotic War, two movie theatres, a hall for veterans' meetings and an exhibition hall. Lunch Vadim Zadorozhny's Retro Vehicle and Military Museum is one of the largest in Europe private museum of vintage technical equipment. The best old time vehicles and enginery of the last century have been collected here diligently for a long period of time: military equipment, weaponry, aviation, motorcycles, and of course oldtime cars. The majority of them are fully restored and even in case of non-driving condition, undoubtedly, all of them look perfect. In museum you can also book a master class of assembling and disassembling of historical assault rifle - AK-47 and order riding on some oldtime cars and military vehicles with a driver on the territory of the museum complex.
Day 6 Patriot Park and Kubinka Tank Museum tour located in Kubinka, about 40 kilometers west of Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense offers unique entertainment. You could hardly find anything similar in the world. Patriot Park is located on an area of 50 square kilometers. This unique place has collected real examples of space technology, aircrafts and armored vehicles. Nowhere in the world one can see all the models of MIG fighters or climb all varieties of Russian tanks. Visitors can take pictures of SOYUZ space station, with the assistance of trainer one can practice to disassemble real AK-47 machine guns. A special 10 km railway was built to deliver heavy military equipment.
Day 7 Optional Choice Excursions: Military style activities in Moscow suburb: Tanks driving in Russia is a real opportunity to variegate your everyday life and get a bunch of emotions. We offer you a supercool entertainment: riding in numerous types of military armored vehicles and overcoming woodlands, swampy areas, hardly passable roads and various obstacles in a quite hardcore way; driving a real tank along the specifically designed routes; the possibility of shooting various types of small arms (machine guns, Kalashnikov rifles) while riding in armored vehicles. And, sure enough, all that will be accompanied by realistic sounds ambience and pyrotechnics explosions, allowing you to feel a surge of adrenaline first-hand. In addition, you will be provided by friendly attention and service, you will be able to taste the military field cuisine sitting in comfortable tents, and enjoy the real fun of military songs and dances. Shooting Range in Moscow (Center) you can fire various types of small arms. The shooting distance is up to 25 meters. A brief on safe handling of weapons will be provided by the instructors.Pistols: CZ-75 SP-01 Shadow; Glock 17; Glock 35; BUL Cherokee; Yarygin Pistol Viking; Assault Rifles: AK-47; AK-74 (Saiga); RPK (Kalashnikov medium machine gun) MIG-29, L-29 and L-39 jet trainer flights is the best choice for addicts of adrenaline, high speeds and thrill! You don't need any preliminary training or any specific health conditions. The program complexity depends only on your personal preferences. Jet flights take place in a region of Moscow, your instructors are experienced pilots with thousands of flight hours. We can offer you a deal of unique tourist programs: zero-G flights, tours to the MCC and Star City, accomplishment of cosmonauts training programs' elements, tours to Baikonur to view the launch, expeditions to the landing sites.
Day 8 Departure to the airport
Price for the tour (EUR / pax): on request
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