Moscow – Baikal Railway tour "Baikal Fairy Tale"

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During the trip, you will get acquainted with the sights of stunning and original Russian cities – Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk, and then go to the shores of Lake Baikal to enjoy the majestic views of the lake.

Getting to know the noble and mighty Baikal is a unique experience that everyone who wants to fully understand the scale of Russia needs to get.

The route of the cruise tourist train: Moscow – Perm – Yekaterinburg – Novosibirsk – Krasnoyarsk – Irkutsk – Olkhon

Location

Russia, Moscow

from

US$ 1 530

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Tour highlights

The border of Europe and Asia

A glass of champagne and a "certificate of trespassers" are waiting for us at the border

Delicious Baikal dishes

Let's try the traditional Baikal cuisine

Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre

We will take a tour of the largest musical theater in Russia

Circum-Baikal Railway

We will see southern Baikal and explore the architectural sights in one day

Kungur Ice Cave

We are exploring a unique geological monument, the largest karst cave in gypsum in the European part of our country

The Famous Krasnoyarsk Pillars

We will visit the observation deck of the Stolby National Park with a cable car ride

Itinerary

Day 1 - Boarding the train
13:40 Departure of the tourist train from the station Moscow Yaroslavskaya.

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Day 2 - Perm
For tourists' information, the time difference is + 2 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
12:12 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Perm.
Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.
Lunch at a cafe in the city.
Sightseeing tour of the city of Perm.
Sightseeing tour of the central streets of the city — we will see the monument "Permyak — salty ears", the embankment of the Kama River and the art object "Happiness is just around the corner", the historical Sibirskaya Street, the Theater Square and the Opera and Ballet Theater, Cathedral Square.
Departure to Kungur, a travel excursion (on the way about 3-3.5 hours).
A visit to the Kungur ice cave.
The cave is a unique geological monument, the largest karst cave in gypsum in the European part of our country.
The length of the passages is 8.153 m, of which 2 km. it is equipped for sightseeing visits by tourists.
The cave has 48 caves and about 70 lakes.
The largest lake (a large underground lake) has an area of 1,460 sq.m. and a depth of up to 5 meters.
Dinner at a cafe in Kungur.
Departure to Perm.
Arrival at the railway station.
00:35 Departure of the tourist train.

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Day 3 - Ekaterinburg
For tourists' information, the time difference is + 2 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
07:30 Arrival of the tourist train at the Yekaterinburg station.
Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.
Sightseeing bus and walking tour of the city with a tour of the main attractions.
You will see the dam of the city pond on the river. Iset, which gave life to the Yekaterinburg plant in the XVIII century, a monument to the founders of the city V.N. Tkatishchev and V.I. de Gennin, the patroness of the city – the Chapel of St. Catherine, merchant mansions, the central squares of the capital of the Urals, Voznesenskaya Hill, decorated with the palace of merchants Rastorguyev-Kharitonov and of course – the Temple-on-Blood in the name of All Saints in the Land of Russia who shone — the legendary place where the Romanov dynasty was interrupted.
Transfer to Ganina Yama, a unique Orthodox complex built in the style of ancient Russian architecture.
During the tour, you will get acquainted with the family history of the last Russian Emperor Nikolai Romanov.
A visit to the Europe-Asia border, where guests will have a glass of champagne and a "certificate of border violators".
Lunch at a restaurant in the city.
Visit to the Museum of the History of Stone-cutting and Jewelry art.
Transfer to the railway station.
16:00 Departure of the tourist train.

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Day 4 - Novosibirsk
For tourists' information, the time difference is +4 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
13:55 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Novosibirsk.
Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.
Sightseeing tour of Novosibirsk.
During the tour you will walk along the old streets, squares and squares.
You will see the main city buildings, the opera House, the Commercial Building, wooden and merchant houses.
You will find out why Novosibirsk is compared with St. Petersburg, how the fate of the city developed, and how it lives today.
Walking through the center of Novosibirsk, you will hear the history of the appearance of modern symbols of the city and get acquainted with the creations of Siberian constructivist architects.
Visit to the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.
We invite you to take a tour of the largest musical theater in Russia.
Transfer to the railway station.
18:42 Departure of the tourist train.

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Day 5 - Krasnoyarsk
For tourists' information, the time difference is +4 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
07:44 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Krasnoyarsk.
Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.
Sightseeing bus and walking tour of the city, during which you will visit the Bobrovy Log Park, the observation deck of the Stolby National Park with a lift by cable car, the observation deck of the Karaulnaya Mountain, you will see the confluence of the Kacha with the Yenisei, the chapel of St. Nicholas. Paraskevy and the Communal bridge.
Transfer to the railway station.
13:17 Departure of the tourist train.

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Day 6 - Irkutsk
For tourists' information, the time difference is +5 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
07:42 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Irkutsk.
08:10 Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.
Sightseeing bus and walking tour of Irkutsk with a visit to the Decembrist Museum (Volkonsky House Museum).
The tour will introduce you to the main monuments of the Siberian city of the Earth.
You will not find such wooden architecture as in Irkutsk in any corner of the world.
During the tour of memorable and historical places, you will learn the history of the Irkutsk prison and the central part of the city, architecture and wooden architecture, about outstanding figures of the history and culture of Russia, whose activities were inextricably linked with Irkutsk.
Lunch at a restaurant in the city.
Transfer to the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum.
Visit the museum of wooden architecture "Taltsy", located in a picturesque place on the banks of the Angara River.
This unique museum will tell you about the daily life of people in this region in the past.
Transfer to Irkutsk.
Dinner at a restaurant in the city.
Transfer to the railway station.
21:45 Departure of the tourist train.

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Day 7 - Travel on the KBZHD
For tourists' information, the time difference is +5 hours.
From Irkutsk to Slyudyanka, the train runs in an easterly direction without stopping.
00:29-06:18 Parking at the station Slyudyanka.
During the parking, those who wish will be able to get out of the car and admire the only station building in the world, built entirely of white and pink marble.
During the parking, the traction will be changed, you will be able to see the work of the locomotive crew when the locomotive is hooked up and take vivid photos against the background of the L-series locomotive built in the last century.
06:18 Departure of the tourist train in the western direction to the famous Circum-Baikal railway.
Further to the Port of Baikal, our train will proceed under the control of a steam locomotive, and you will have the opportunity to live through the emotions of a person at the beginning of the 20th century and feel the regularity of that time.
Traveling along the Circum—Baikal Railway, the "golden buckle of the Russian steel belt" running along the shore of Lake Baikal, is a great way to see southern Baikal and explore the architectural sights in one day.
The Circum—Baikal Railway has 38 tunnels with a total length of 9,063 m (the longest of them is the tunnel through Cape Polovinny with a length of 777.5 m), 15 stone galleries with a total length of 295 m (only 5 of them are currently in use) and 3 reinforced concrete galleries with holes, 248 bridges and viaducts, 268 retaining walls.
In the most iconic and beautiful places of the Circum-Baikal railway, our train will make stops: Kultuk, Staraya Angasolka, Kirkirey, Polovinnaya, Italian wall.
Breakfast on the train.
13:20 Arrival of the train at the Baikal Port station.
13:45 Water transfer from Baikal Port station to Listvyanka village.
Lunch at the cafe in Listvyanka village.
Ascent / descent by cable car to the Chersky Stone observation deck.
Sightseeing tour of Listvyanka village, visit to the fish and souvenir market.
Dinner at the cafe in Listvyanka village.
20:20 Water transfer from Listvyanka village to art. The port of Baikal.
Boarding the train and overnight on the train.

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Day 8 - Olkhon Island
The time difference is + 5 hours.
Breakfast on the train.
08:00 Disembarkation from the train with your luggage.
Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to the ship.
08:30 Boarding the ship "Comet" and departure to Olkhon Island.
12:30 Arrival at Olkhon in Zagli Bay.
12:45 Boarding at the UAZ and transfer to the village of Khuzhir.
13:45 Olkhon Island tour, visit to Cape Buran, Shamanka rocks and lunch.
15:45 Boarding at UAZ and transfer from Khuzhir to Zagli Bay.
17:00 Transfer by ship "Comet" to the village of Listvyanka.
21:00 Arrival in Listvyanka village, boarding buses and transfer back to Irkutsk.
At about 22:30 Arrival in Irkutsk city center, completion of the program.
The time in the program is indicated approximately.

Difficulty

For any person

Tour organizer's comments

The program is not recommended for people who have difficulty moving due to age or other body characteristics, as well as children under 14 years of age.

Accommodation

Train

7 nights

Comfort

Midscale
Premium

The tour provides for travel in a carriage of the selected category.

The cost of the tour for 1 person, depending on the category, RUB.:

Category	Adults	Children up to and including 9 years old
Four-seater compartment	134 800	133 300
Double compartment	164 000	163 000
Double compartment single occupancy	244 700	-
Luxury	195 500	-
Single Room Suite	305 800	-

The tourist train includes comfortable luxury, CB, compartment and second-class carriages.

SUITE 6 compartment	1 upper shelf + 1 lower (unfolds, it turns out the analogy of a bed in size slightly less than 2 bedrooms), bathrobes + slippers, 1 medium + 1 large towel. Personal amenities in the form of a WC with a sink. A soft corner sofa, there is a TV (you can use a USB stick or disks). There are only 12 people in the carriage
SUITE 5 compartments	1 upper shelf + 1 lower (unfolds, it turns out the analogy of a bed in size slightly less than 2 bedrooms), bathrobes + slippers, 1 medium + 1 large towel. Personal amenities in the form of 1 shower +WC with sink. A soft corner sofa, there is a TV (you can use a USB stick or disks). There are only 10 people in the carriage.
SUITE 4 compartments	1 upper shelf + 1 lower (unfolds, it turns out the analogy of a bed in size slightly less than 2 bedrooms), bathrobes + slippers, 1 medium + 1 large towel. Personal amenities in the form of 1 shower+WC with sink. A soft corner sofa, there is a TV (you can use a USB stick or disks). The common area in the carriage. There are only 8 people in the carriage.
SUITE 3 compartments	1 upper shelf + 1 lower (unfolds, it turns out the analogy of a bed in size slightly less than 2 bedrooms), bathrobes + slippers, 1 medium + 1 large towel. Personal amenities in the form of 1 shower+WC with sink. A soft corner sofa, there is a TV (you can use a USB stick or disks). The common area in the carriage. There are only 6 people in the carriage.
sv	2 lower shelves, 1 medium towel for 1 person, mini travel kit (toothbrush + toothpaste, slippers, refreshing napkin). Amenities per carriage. The maximum number of people in a carriage is 18
COMPARTMENT	2 lower and 2 upper shelves. Amenities per carriage. Mini travel kit (toothbrush+ toothpaste, slippers, refreshing napkin). The maximum number of people in a carriage is 36
Reserved seat	9 open-type compartments, 9 side seats. The maximum number of people in the car is 54 seats
The general Ruskeala Express	The train is stylized for the beginning of the 20th century. The train is pulling - a real steam locomotive. There are 6 seats in each compartment. The train has a restaurant car and a photo compartment.

Tour conditions

Group

up to 40 tourists

Minimum age

14 years old

Duration

8 days 7 nights

Group meets at

Russia, Moscow

Included in price

railway travel in a carriage of the selected type on the route: Moscow - Perm - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - KBZHD - Port Baikal;
water transfer on the route Port Baikal - village Listvyanka - Baikal Port;
water transfer on the route Port Baikal - O.Olkhon – village Listvyanka;
transportation and excursion services according to the program, including entrance tickets to the excursion facilities according to the program;
meals according to the program (7 breakfasts on the train, 4 lunches and 3 dinners in a cafe).

Paid extra

personal expenses;
air travel (and/or other type of transport) from Irkutsk.

It's important to know

We recommend taking comfortable clothes and shoes, bath towels and rubber slippers for taking a shower on the train. Documents (passport, birth certificate for children), medical insurance policy.

Dates and Prices

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from US$ 1 530

20 – 27 Jun, 2025 8 days 7 nights

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