A trip to the heart of Siberia

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A harmonious sightseeing tour combines three Siberian cities – Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk. We will see various pages of the history of the development of Siberia from the 17th century to the present day. Informative workshops, interactive excursions and delicious Siberian dishes will pleasantly complement the program.

Location

city of Tomsk

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Tour highlights

Siberian meal

Let's taste the dishes of traditional Siberian cuisine

Kuznetsk Fortress

We will see a wonderful monument of history, culture and fortification

Mining glory of Siberia

We will visit the Museum of Industrial History and the operating Kedrovsky mine

Hunting tales in the Tomsk scribble

On an interactive tour, we will get acquainted with the history of the development of commercial hunting in Siberia in the XVII-XX centuries.

Itinerary

Day 1 - Sightseeing tour "The city above Tom..."
Transfer from the airport or railway station to the hotel, early check-in, breakfast.
10:00 Sightseeing tour "The City above Tom ..." with a tour of the House-Museum of V.Ya. Shishkov and the mansion of merchant Golovanov.
The tour tells about the life of the city for 4 centuries, shows unique wooden buildings – the hallmark of Tomsk and introduces the culture of the Siberian people, introduces Tomsk as the "Siberian Athens", shows Tomsk as an innovation center.
13:00 Tomsk History Museum.
14:00 Lunch at the Siberian Meal restaurant.
15:00 Excursion "Visiting the Governor!" to the Semeluzhensky Ostrog interactive open-air museum.
The tourists will drive along part of the longest Moscow – Beijing road in the world – along the Siberian Highway, which has become the road of life for many famous people.
Pushkin's grandfather Hannibal went into exile this way.
Elder Fyodor Tomsk, according to legend, Alexander I, came to our city along it, the wives of the Decembrists drove along it and Tomsk merchants took their goods to Zlatoglavaya by this highway.
Tourists will visit the Cossack prison of the 17th century.
The governor will greet the guests with a bell ringing and tell them how Siberia was developed, how Cossack prisons were built, how they were guarded, how life was built in them.
The tourists will get acquainted with the Cossack culture, climb the bell tower and try on Cossack caftans of the 17th century, take colorful photos.
18:00 return to the hotel, rest.
Additionally, tourists can visit the theaters of the city, and a program of events is given upon arrival.

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Day 2 - Mysteries of the Tomsk Land
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 Excursion "Wooden Lace of Tomsk" with a visit to the Museum of Wooden Architecture – the tour will take you through the Tomsk streets, which have preserved real masterpieces of wooden architecture, you will see a house with firebirds, a house with dragons, the mansion of Khomich and much more.
13.00 Lunch.
14.00 Excursion to the Tomsk Regional Museum of Local Lore – the mansion of the gold industrialist Astashev "Tomsk is part of the great tea way".
Did you know that it was the Tomichi who brought tea from China to the table of the Russian tsar for the first time?
Tourists on this tour will be able to find out exactly how teas with additives appeared in Tomsk for the first time in history, how the period of the "Gold Rush" took place in Siberia.
15.00 Excursion to the Museum of Slavic Mythology – "Primordial Russia".
You will get acquainted with the works of modern Russian artists working in the style of national romanticism.
Mythical representations of the Slavs, epic tales, Russian, Siberian fairy tales and legends.
16:00 Free time.
Additionally, for a fee, you can visit:
Master class on painting the bear – the owner of the taiga, to hear amazing stories about these animals;
The Siberian Cedar company store. Tourists will be able to buy handmade sweets, which are produced only in Tomsk from pine nuts harvested in Siberian forests, with cranberries and real Swiss chocolate; Ivan Tea from the Tomsk forest, cedar oil, dried cranberries and dry mushrooms collected in the Vasyugan marshes…
Excursion to the Museum "Professorial apartment";
Excursion to the Regional Art Museum;
Excursion to the NKVD Museum.
The excursion day is pedestrian (bus service is possible for an additional fee).

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Day 3 - The antiquities of Kuzbass
07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Kemerovo.
11:00 Bus and walking tour of the city center.
With a visit to the nature department of the Regional Museum of Local Lore.
Getting acquainted with the history, main sights and modern life of the regional center.
The Department of Nature of the Kemerovo Museum of Local Lore allows you to go through time 4.5 billion years ago and see the territory of Kuzbass since its formation.
The central exhibit is the skeleton of the Siberian psittacosaurus, a lizard that lived in Kuzbass more than 120 million years ago.
13:30 Transfer to d. Pisanaya (55 km).
14:30 Excursion to the museum-reserve "Tomskaya Pisanitsa".
Tomsk Pisanitsa is an ancient sanctuary with rock paintings of the late Neolithic – early Bronze Age (IV – III millennium BC), one of the largest petroglyph museums in Russia.
Many drawings are rightfully considered masterpieces of rock art.
The interactive tour "Hunting tales" will introduce you to the history of the development of commercial hunting in Siberia in the XVII-XX centuries.
15:00 Lunch of the hunter in the cafe "Yurt".
17:30 Transfer to Kemerovo (55 km).
18:30 Free time.
Check-in at the Kuzbass Hotel.
For an additional fee:
Dinner at the Zaboy restaurant – the average check is 1,200 rubles.;
Excursion "Inimitable" to the legendary theater "Lodge", created by Evgeny Grishkovets. The revolutionary creative style of the theater has earned the love of the audience and the attention of many theater awards and festivals, including the Golden Mask. The program of the tour includes a performance and a creative meeting with the director of the theater.

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Day 4 - Miner's glory
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 Transfer to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve with a visit to the monument of E. Neizvestny.
10:30 Excursion to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve (Rutgers House, Mine).
Krasnaya Gorka is a museum of industrial history, created at the site of the opening of the Kuznetsk coal basin.
The museum introduces the history of the unique organization AIK Kuzbass, which gathered 700 foreign workers and specialists in Kuzbass in the 20s of the last century to build an ideal socialist state.
On 55 hectares of the museum's territory, in addition to historical ones, there are modern monuments, including the monument "Memory of the Kuzbass Miners" by the famous sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.
12:30 Transfer to the Kedrovsky mine, 27 km.
13:00 Excursion to the Kedrovsky section with lunch in the dining room of the enterprise.
At the section, you can get acquainted with the technology of coal mining and the experience of the enterprise for the biological reclamation of technogenically disturbed lands.
16:00 Transfer to Novokuznetsk (225 km).
19:00 Arrival in Novokuznetsk, check-in at the Novokuznetsk hotel.

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Day 5 - Bus and walking tour "From the factory to the garden city"
9:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 Bus and walking tour "From the factory to the garden city".
The tour introduces the history of the construction of one of the largest metallurgical plants in the world – Kuznetsk Metallurgical.
Reflection of the factory character in the appearance and culture of the city, passage through the mystical tunnel of the KMK, acquaintance with the main architectural symbols of the city.
Excursion to the Scientific and Technical Museum named after Academician Ivan Pavlovich Bardin, chief engineer of Kuznetsk Construction and one of the construction managers of KMK.
14:00 Lunch at a cafe in the city.
15:30 Excursion to the Literary Memorial Museum of F.M. Dostoevsky.
In 1857 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was married in Kuznetsk.
A literary and art museum has been created in the house where Dostoevsky lived, which shows how the writer's stay in the city and the events that took place here influenced his work.
Visit to the Kuznetsk Fortress Museum-Reserve.
17:30 Free time.
For an additional fee:
Excursion to the largest automotive museum in Siberia "Retropark".

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Day 6 - Departure
04:30 Transfer to the airport.

Difficulty

Suitable for everyone

Accommodation

Hotel

5 nights

Comfort

Midscale

The tour includes accommodation in a hotel.

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

Double occupancy	Single occupancy
39 400	45 400

The possible placement options are presented below.

The Sport Hotel offers comfortable accommodation in the center of the Kirovsky district of Tomsk, at 124 Krasnoarmeyskaya St., next to the Palace of Spectacles and Sports, Youth Square and the Singing Fountain.

The Sport Hotel consists of 44 comfortable rooms of various categories: standard, suite, apartments (with a full kitchen and dining area). The total capacity of the guests is from 44 to 85 people. In each room: TV, wi-fi, air conditioning and ventilation system, refrigerator, kettle, bathroom with shower and toilet, set of towels, set of soap accessories in individual packaging, tea/coffee making set.

On the 8th floor of the hotel there is a cafe "8 sky" with panoramic views of the city and a conference room with all necessary equipment.

There is also a facials massage room where you can relax, unwind and please yourself.

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Tour conditions

Group

up to 15 tourists

Minimum age

12 years old

Duration

6 days 5 nights

Group meets at

city of Tomsk

Included in price

accommodation specified in the program (standard room);
meals specified in the program (5 breakfasts and 5 lunches);
transportation services according to the program (in case of recruitment of a group of less than 10 people, transfers between cities can be carried out on regular intercity buses);
excursion service according to the program;
medical insurance.

Paid extra

air and railway tickets to Tomsk and back from Novokuznetsk;
meals not included in the program (dinners);
personal expenses (souvenirs, use of the minibar, etc.);
additional excursions, master classes, theater entrance tickets, etc.;
excursion “Unique” to the legendary theater “Lodge" – from 1,000 rubles.;
excursion to the largest museum of automotive technology in Siberia “Retropark" – from 550 rubles.

It's important to know

Air and railway tickets are not included in the price of the tour. You can purchase them yourself or contact us for help.

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