Siberian Pearls: Krasnoyarsk – Shushenskoye – Yeniseisk

Breakfast. Room release (luggage storage in the luggage room).

09:00 Excursion to the Krasnoyarsk Pillars National Park (route length: climbing about 350 steps and 3.5 km along the trail).

The natural boundaries of the protected area are the right tributaries of the Yenisei River: in the northeast is the Bazaiha River, in the south and southwest are the Mana and Bolshaya Sluznevka rivers.

From the northeast, the territory borders on the city of Krasnoyarsk. The park was founded in 1925 on the initiative of the residents of the city to preserve the natural complexes around the picturesque syenite remains — "pillars". Currently, its area is 48,066 hectares.

The main attraction of the park are the rocks. The name "Pillars" is common to all rocks, although all rocks and even some stones have their own names.

There is a direct distinction between "Pillars" — rocks open to tourists, and "Wild Pillars" — rocks located deep in the park, access to which is limited.

Return to the Krasnoyarsk Hotel.

Lunch. Free time.

Transfer to the railway station.

Boarding a train in a compartment car.

Departure to Minusinsk at 18:40.

Dinner (lunch box).

Early arrival in Minusinsk at 06:50, one of the oldest cities in Southern Siberia, founded in 1739. It is located in the center of the vast forest-steppe Minusinsk basin, surrounded on all sides by mountains.

Departure to Shushenskoye.

Accommodation (2 or 3 persons) in the Novaya Village hotel complex is an architectural and ethnographic complex of the Shushenskoye Museum-Reserve, which offers a unique opportunity for visitors to find themselves in a Siberian village of the late 19th century with its streets and houses, with its customs and traditions.

Sightseeing tour of the museum.

Guided tour of the Historical and Ethnographic Museum-reserve Shushenskoye. A unique historical, architectural, and ethnographic complex located in the open air on the banks of the Shusha River, near its confluence with the Yenisei. The area of the museum-reserve is about 16 hectares.

The museum represents the historically developed central part of an ancient Siberian village.

The economic activity, way of life, social life, and spiritual culture of Siberian peasants at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented in monuments of rural architecture, in the interiors of peasant houses and public buildings, in rich collections of tools and household peasant art.

The main and scientific-auxiliary fund of the museum includes 106,225 items of storage. It consists of more than 30 different collections: memorabilia, books of the 19th – early 20th centuries, vehicles, furniture, clothing, tableware, samovars, musical instruments, etc.

Lunch.

Visiting exhibitions, demonstration of crafts (weaving), master class. The Shushenskoye Museum-Reserve has been engaged in exhibition work since its inception, most actively since the late 80s of the twentieth century.

Exhibitions from the museum's collections are displayed not only on museum squares, but also exported to nearby territories. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, more than thirty types of crafts and crafts were developed in the Shushenskaya volost of the Minusinsk district.

The exposition of the museum-reserve presents widespread crafts related to the processing of wood, clay, fibrous crops, wool, and others.

One of the main directions in the work of the museum-reserve now is not only the display, but also the revival of ancient crafts.

Supper.

Breakfast.

Excursion to the national park "Shushensky Bor". The National Park is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation. It is a member of the Association of Nature Reserves and National parks of the Altai-Sayan ecoregion.

The park's territory is located at the junction of two natural and climatic zones - forest—steppe and taiga, and includes the unique natural and territorial complexes of the Western Sayan and Minusinsk basins. The total area of the park is 39,180 ha.

The first national park in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Shushensky Bor, introduces its visitors to unique natural and historical sites.

These are the extrazonal ribbon forests of the right bank of the Yenisei, an arboretum with typical and introduced plants, alpine meadows and glacial lakes of the Borus range, a museum of forestry history, an untouched taiga, a peasant hut, specially equipped recreation areas and much more.

More than 750 species of plants grow in the park, 11 of them are listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, there are more than 270 species of birds, 27 of them are listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, 4 species of amphibians, 5 species of reptiles, 47 species of mammals.

Excursion to the hut where V.I. Lenin rested during the hunt.

Lenin had a special favorite place in the vicinity of Shushenskoye. They are under state protection. During hunting trips, Vladimir Ilyich went to the pine forest, to the Crane and Sand Hills, to Lake Perovo.

Lunch.

Visit to the visit center of the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. You will see rare wild cats of southern Siberia, which are under state protection, and learn interesting facts and stories about the system of protection and study of snow leopards living in the territory of the Sayan Mountains.

Return to the village.

Free time.

Supper.

Breakfast.

Room release.

Departure to Ermakovskoye village.

Departure to the Ergaki Nature Park.

The unique, unusual and so different – sometimes attractive and homely, sometimes cold and harsh, but always charming beauty of the natural landscapes of the park, their aura has long been a byword.

It is this beauty and this aura that attracts countless fans, if not even pilgrims, to them.

Arrival at the Visitor center of the nature park.

An excursion along the ecological trail of the Siberian hunter (2.2 km long in one direction), leading to a special world, according to the laws of which people lived and still live, whose main trade is hunting fur–bearing animals.

You will get acquainted with the life and traditions of hunters of the early 20th century, fishing techniques, ancient samolovs, and enjoy the picturesque landscapes.

After the tour, departure to the campsite.

2 or 3-bed accommodation at the campsite.

Lunch.

A walk through the park.

Rest.

Supper.

Breakfast.

Departure to the Ergaki Nature Park.

A simple walking tour to the Hanging Stone rock (the route length is about 12 km). The route, which is quite long in time and distance, will not tire you at all, because you simply will not have time to think about fatigue.

The changing landscapes, the grandeur of the surrounding nature, the splendor of the subalpine meadows, now glowing with orange torches, now overflowing with blue catchments, will not even leave a reason for fatigue.

In one radial hike you will visit the most popular tourist sites: lakes "Raduzhnoye" and "Karovoe", the rock "Hanging Stone".

The Hanging Stone rock is the central feature on the route. Its name did not appear by chance: the fact is that it is really a huge stone that stands on the edge, as if hanging over Lake Raduzhnoye.

If you look from below, from the lake itself, you get the impression that the stone is about to break off and fall down with a terrible crash.

After the Hanging Stone, the route goes to the Raduzhnoye Lake.

And then, heading to the Tarmazakov Bridge, it is nearing its logical conclusion (6-9 hours).

Lunch is a lunch box.

Return to the campsite.

Supper.

Breakfast.

Room release.

Excursion to the observation deck of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP with a visit to the museum. Ivan Yarygin and the temple (83 km, 2 hours on the way).

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station named after P. S. Neporozhny is the largest power plant in Russia by installed capacity, the 9th among the operating hydroelectric power plants in the world.

Located in the village of Cheryomushki (near the city of Sayanogorsk) in the Republic of Khakassia, it is the most powerful hydroelectric power station in Russia and one of the most powerful in the world.

The Mainskaya HPP is a counterregulator of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, smoothing out fluctuations in the water level in the Yenisei River that occur when the operating modes of this powerful HPP change. The height of the hydroelectric power station is more than 200 meters, and the length along the upper edge is about one kilometer!

The arch-gravity dam is able to hold the pressure of more than 30 cubic kilometers of water! The sight of a working dam will touch and leave an unforgettable mark on your soul. And the photos will save this event for a lifetime!

Trout farming is organized at the hydroelectric power station.

Transfer to D. Grey.

Visit to the Church of St. Evdokia of Moscow and the Ivan Yarygin Museum. Ivan Yarygin is a legend of Russian sports.

He won Olympic gold twice, won the World and European Championships, and set an eternal record by defeating absolutely all his rivals at three of the most prestigious competitions.

Lunch.

Transfer to Minusinsk.

Excursion to the Minusinsk regional Museum of Local Lore named after N.M. Martyanov. The Minusinsk Museum named after N. M. Martyanov is the oldest museum in Siberia. It was founded in June 1877 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Martyanov (1844-1904), a pharmacist and a botanical scientist.

This is the first museum in Siberia and the Far East to have a Program and Charter. The museum's specialists will conduct a sightseeing tour about the history of the development of the population of the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory from ancient times to the present day, about the flora and fauna of this territory.

Of particular interest to those present are expositions related to the ancient world, telling about the culture of the peoples inhabiting the south of the region in the past centuries.

The museum has unique exhibits. For example, a collection of shells from the bottom of the Indian Ocean, donated by the traveler Potanin, an album by the artist Shishkin, a collection of photonegatives on glass in Minusinsk, Tuva, Khakassia.

Transfer to the railway station.

Boarding a train in a compartment car.

19:40 Departure to Krasnoyarsk.

Dinner (lunch box).

Arrival at the railway station at 06:50.

Transfer to the hotel "Lights of Yenisei" (address 80 Dubrovinsky St.).

Breakfast at the hotel (buffet).

08:00 Departure by tourist bus to Yeniseisk. The route lies along the highway of regional significance "Yenisei tract".

The highway connects the northern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, runs from Krasnoyarsk through Lesosibirsk and ends in Yeniseisk. The length of the highway is 345 km, passes through many settlements, formerly Yamshchitsky villages founded by Cossacks.

Arrival in Ust-Tunguska, excursion to Karaulny Island, the confluence of the Angara River with the Yenisei River. There are many beautiful legends about the beautiful Angara, the only daughter of the old man of Baikal, and the mighty handsome Yenisei.

Baikal was against their wedding, following his runaway daughter, he abandoned the palace, which was supposed to be her wedding gift. The palace fell apart into many fragments, they became the Strelkov Threshold, and the largest stone is Karaulny Island.

Nothing could stop the wayward daughter on the way to the Yenisei: neither the fierce rapids, nor the scattering of rocks, nor the cliffs that stood in the way of the fugitive.

Lunch-picnic in nature (Yenisei fish soup, grayling on a grill, herbal tea). If the weather is good, you can swim in the Hangar.

Arrival in Yeniseisk. Excursion to the private plane Museum. The only collection of planes that is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

Double room at the Yeniseiskaya Hotel. The hotel is located in the city center, has a unique architecture of the 18th century and an ancient interior. The building was built in 1984.

Dinner at the cafe.

Breakfast at the hotel.

10:00 Excursion to the Monastery Lake, located 30 km west of Yeniseisk. Here, on the holy piece of the Yenisei land, prayer services and the sacraments of baptism are performed. A great place to relax and swim – if the weather is good, you can swim.

Lunch at a cafe.

Sightseeing walking tour of Yeniseisk (3 hours). Yeniseisk is located on the Yenisei Plain, on the left bank of the Yenisei, below the confluence of the Angara River, 330 km north of Krasnoyarsk. The city is called an "open-air museum", the urban development includes 94 architectural monuments.

The complex of the Transfiguration Monastery and four churches are unique examples of Siberian Baroque, built in the middle and second half of the XVIII century. They are close to the Russian temples of the previous century in terms of planning and spatial structure and picturesque decor.

The stone civil buildings of Yeniseysk are mainly two–storey houses along the main street, on the embankment and central squares.

Excursion to the Yenisei Museum of Local Lore.

Dinner at the cafe.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Room release.

Departure to the landing stage.

Boarding a scheduled passenger ship, accommodation in 2 and 1-bed cabins of the first class.

Lunch.

Boat tour, travel information.

Supper.

At night, the ship passes by a large transshipment pier and the village of Strelka, located at the confluence of two large Siberian rivers, the Yenisei and the Angara.

Passage of the Kazachinsky threshold is the most difficult section on the Yenisei River near the village of Kazachinsky (233-240 km from Krasnoyarsk). Its length is 4 km. It is formed by rocky outcrops, rocky ridges of the Yenisei ridge, crossing the riverbed along its entire width.

Vessels are escorted against the current by Russia's only special motor ship, the Yenisei tourer, which is moving by stretching a cable laid along the bottom of the river.

The Yenisei riverbed narrows to 350 m in the threshold, and the ship's passage is up to 70 m. But how beautiful is the Cossack threshold, for all its severity! Many artists have repeatedly painted his views.

The threshold originates at Kamenny Cape. The water in the Yenisei is noisy and foaming at the rocks. The high hills of the river banks fascinate with their beauty, beautiful cliffs are visible, ending at the water's edge, for example, the Eagle rock on the left bank.

On the right shore there is an amazingly beautiful island called Islets, and behind it the picturesque Zaostrovskaya bayou.

Breakfast.

Lunch.

Travel information.

Supper.

20:00 Arrival in Krasnoyarsk at the Rechnoy Vokzal.