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Excursion "A walk through Gvardeysk and Tapiau Castle", 6 hours.
09:00 Boarding from the Tourist Hotel (53 A. Nevsky str.).
09:20 Boarding from the Kaliningrad Hotel (81 Leninsky ave.).
09:30 Fish village (Oktyabrskaya str., 4).
Route: the city of Gvardeysk.
You will visit the charming town of Gvardeysk, which has preserved the main signs and flavor of the old town of Tapiau: the market square, the town hall with a musical clock, the XVIII century church and the typical urban development for these places. And the history of many cities here began with the foundation of the castle-fortress by the knights of the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages.
In the preserved part of the Tapiau castle, you will be transported to the past, rich in vivid events and big names of the guests of the Tapiau fortress. In Tapiau, he met the end of the war in 1945. Soviet poet and war correspondent A.T.Tvardovsky, it is here that he will complete the poem "Vasily Terkin". You will see a monument to the beloved hero.
The city is also known as the birthplace of the German artist Lovis Corinth, famous for his monumental paintings on mythological and religious themes. He is considered the last major portrait painter of Germany in the second half of the XIX — early XX century.
Lunch is optional for an additional fee.
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Excursion "Kaliningrad — fortress city", 5-6 hours.
10:40 Boarding from the Tourist Hotel (53 A. Nevsky str.).
11:00 Boarding from the Kaliningrad hotel (Leninsky Prospekt, 81).
11:10 Fish village (Oktyabrskaya str., 4).
Route: Kaliningrad.
Fort No. 5 "King Frederick William III" and Fort No. 1 "Stein", Bunker Museum.
Throughout its centuries-old history, Konigsberg was a fortress city and remained impregnable until April 1945. The city gates, towers, bastions and forts preserved in Kaliningrad are examples of the brilliant embodiment of the most modern military engineering thought in Europe of the past years.
An exciting tour awaits you with a drive along the defensive fortifications of the inner defensive ring of the city: the defensive rampart, the moat, the Don Tower, the bastions, the Kronprinz defensive barracks and, of course, the gates of the city.
You will also visit the outer line of defense of Konigsberg and visit two forts of the city of Kaliningrad.
Visit to Fort No. 1 "Stein". This well-preserved fort will amaze you with the power of its walls and the ingenuity of such fortresses.
Visit to Fort No. 5 "King Frederick William III". At the end of World War II, Fort No. 5 became the site of fierce battles between the Soviet Red Army and German Nazi troops, and also witnessed the unparalleled courage of our Soviet soldiers during the storming of Konigsberg in April 1945.
Our tour will end in the very center of the city at the bunker where the underground headquarters of the Konigsberg garrison was located at the end of the war. Here an agreement was reached on the surrender of the German troops.
The situation of the headquarters was preserved in the bunker at the time of the surrender of the German garrison on April 9, 1945. The atmosphere and circumstances of this most important event in the annals of our victory have been recreated.
Visiting the bunker on your own at will for an additional fee. Tickets are purchased in the bunker at the museum's ticket office.
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