A great journey through Western Siberia

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Transfer to Kolyvan. 

A walk around the city. 

More than thirty architectural monuments and more than a hundred objects of valuable historical environment have been preserved here, which create the atmosphere of an ancient merchant city. 

Excursion to the Museum of local lore. 

Today in the halls of the museum there are expositions "The place of Kolyvan in the history of the Russian state", "Merchants of the city of Kolyvan", "Life of peasants of the XIX-XX centuries" and other exhibitions.

The Kolyvan Museum is one of the oldest museums in the Novosibirsk region. 

The museum is located in the historical quarter, where the restored mansions of merchants, the monument to Nicholas the Wonderworker, a fragment of Moskovskaya Street representing the wooden architecture of Kolyvan are presented.

Transfer to Yurt-Ora. 

Visit to the ethnographic complex “Manor of the Chatsky Tatar".

The village of Yurt-Ora is located in the place of residence of the Siberian Tatars and represents the only combination of historical, ethnographic and archaeological cultural heritage in the Novosibirsk region. 

The museum consists of rooms built at the beginning of the twentieth century: a hut where the national-historical way of life and lifestyle of the Tatar family are recreated, stands with unique archival materials about the village families from the XVI century, traditional national clothes, shoes and other rarities, as well as a Tatar courtyard. (extra charge).

National Tatar lunch with pilaf, chak-chak and tea (extra charge)

Transfer to Tomsk. 

Accommodation at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Sightseeing tour of Tomsk.

The city is rich in monuments of wooden and stone architecture of the XVIII–XX centuries. 

Excursion to the Tomsk History Museum.

There are more than 4,000 storage units in the funds. 

Due to the richness and diversity of the museum funds, permanent historical and local history expositions were organized. 

Lunch (paid separately). 

A tour of wooden architecture in the Elan and Tatarskaya Sloboda districts. 

This is a unique historical district of Tomsk, formed at the beginning of the XVII century. 

Until the 17th century, the surroundings of modern Tomsk were inhabited by the so-called Tomsk Tatars, who lived on Yurt Mountain, where they put up their yurts, but with the arrival of Russian military people, they were shifted to the right bank of the Tom River, where there were flood meadows, which were summer pastures. 

Merchants and artisans who arrived from Kazan, Tobolsk provinces, Central Asia or other places settled in the Tatar settlement.

By the end of the 19th century, the Tatar settlement of Tomsk became one of the centers of Tatar culture in Siberia.

Today, wooden buildings have been preserved here and many buildings are a real work of art. 

Free time.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Transfer to Kemerovo. 

A walk around the city. 

Currently, Kemerovo is the largest industrial center located in the east of Russia. 

Coal, chemical and light industry enterprises operate here. 

Transfer to the village of Pisanaya. 

Excursion to the Tomsk Pisanitsa Nature Reserve.

This is a unique archaeological monument that preserves the history of people who lived in Western Siberia several thousand years ago. 

Tomsk Pisanitsa includes three main exhibition complexes dedicated to archeology, ethnography and natural history. 

Lunch.

Return to Kemerovo. 

Excursion to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum.

The Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve was created on the territory of the former Kemerovo coal mine in order to preserve unique monuments of mining heritage. 

The main exhibitions of the museum reflect the history of the Kemerovo mine and the city of Kemerovo, as well as coal mining in Kuzbass. 

Accommodation at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Visit to the coal mine. 

A coal mine is a quarry where open–pit coal mining takes place. 

Attention! The territory of the coal mine is a restricted zone! The visit may be refused.

Transfer to the city of Guryevsk. 

Tour of the Guryev Metallurgical plant. 

Guryevsky Metallurgical Plant is the oldest metallurgical enterprise in the Kemerovo region. 

Attention! The territory of the coal mine is a restricted zone! The visit may be refused.

Lunch.

Transfer to Novokuznetsk.

Accommodation at the hotel. 

Free time.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Transfer to the city of Tashtagol.

The city is located on the territory of the Mountain Shoria.

This taiga region is located at the junction of Altai, Kuznetsk Alatau and Sayan. 

Excursion to the museum of the Mountain Shoria.

The exhibits collected here served as the basis for the creation of the first museum exposition in Russia, completely devoted to the material and spiritual culture of the Shorians.

Lunch.

Transfer to Sheregesh. 

Ascent by cable car to Mount Zelenaya. 

The official name of the mountain is "Karitshal", which means "edge of the ridge” in the Shor language. 

The second name of the "Green" mountain was due to its color. 

In summer, when there are only gray kurums of Mustag and Kurgan around, many shrubs and grasses grow on Karitshala, which gives it a bright green color.

From the top of the Green there are wonderful views of Mustag, the Mound with the Cross of Worship and the village of Sheregesh. 

The height of the mountain is 1270 meters.

Return to Novokuznetsk.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Sightseeing tour of Novokuznetsk.

Novokuznetsk is one of the most important industrial centers of the country.

Excursion to the Kuznetsk Fortress Museum-Reserve.

Kuznetsk Fortress is a monument of history, military engineering art and architecture.

Excursion to the literary Memorial Museum of F.M. Dostoevsky.

Since 1996, the museum has had a permanent unique exhibition "Kuznetsk Guidebook", the authors of which are Moscow specialists from the experimental Laboratory of Museum Design of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies of the MK of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Lunch (paid separately).

Transfer to Novosibirsk with late arrival after 22:00.

Accommodation at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Transfer to Akademgorodok. 

A tour of Akademgorodok.

Akademgorodok is one of the most important scientific and educational centers in Russia, where dozens of research institutes and the famous Novosibirsk State University are located. 

Lunch.

Excursion to the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East.

Currently, the museum is located in the building of the laboratory and exhibition complex of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS. The museum's exposition is divided into epochs: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Early Iron Age, Middle Ages. 

The last hall is dedicated to the spiritual culture of the modern peoples of Siberia and the Far East. The museum is famous for the fact that it houses one of the two mummies found in the Altai highlands (extra charge).

Transfer to the airport by 18:00.

Recommended flights departing after 20:00.