Big cruise from Norilsk to Krasnoyarsk

Breakfast. 

Excursion to the waterfall "Red stones". 

In the foothills of the Putorana plateau, not far from Norilsk, there is a gorge of Red Stones. 

The waterfall adorning the gorge is small compared to such waterfalls of the Putorana plateau as Bolshoy Kureysky, Grandiose, waterfalls on the Oran or Kanda rivers. 

But it also delights travelers, especially those inexperienced by the northern beauties. 

The water descends in a ringing cascade along several rocky ledges and flows into a clear lake up to 9 m deep. 

Lunch at the Talnakh restaurant. 

Excursion to the Talnakh branch of the Museum of the History of Development and Development of the Norilsk industrial district. 

Its exposition is represented by sections on the nature of Taimyr, the history of the development and construction of Talnakh, and the development of mining. Museum materials allow us to trace the geological and paleontological history of the territory of Norilsk from Archean times to the Cenozoic (present day).

A walk along the observation deck.

The observation deck is open in the upper part of the city, offering a fantastic view of the lower part and the entire surrounding tundra. 

The staircase leading to the fifth microdistrict has become a popular tourist route. 

Now they not only go up and down it, but also walk and take pictures. 

Supper. 

Breakfast.

Room release. 

Departure to Dudinka. 

Dudinka is the coldest (rarely, but it happens up to -57° Celsius) and the northernmost (69°21' s) city on the planet.

Excursion to the "Taimyr Museum of Local Lore".

Transfer to the passenger berth.

Boarding the scheduled passenger ship "A. Sailors", accommodation in 2-bed first class cabins (in the cabin there are 2 upholstered sofas, a wardrobe, a washbasin). 

The ship departs at 12:00 from the river port of Dudinka. 

Lunch. 

Boat tour. 

Information on the route of the ship. 

Supper. 

At night, stop in Igarka – the city is located on the shore of the Igarsky channel of the Yenisei, 1330 km north of Krasnoyarsk in a straight line (the distance along the Yenisei is about 1800 km). 

It is located beyond the Arctic circle, in the permafrost zone.

In the morning, crossing the Arctic Circle (Kureika river). 

Breakfast. 

Free time. 

Lunch. 

Events in the reading room. 

Supper. 

The stop is in Turukhansk, located at the confluence of the Lower Tunguska with the Yenisei, 1,474 km north of Krasnoyarsk. 

There is a fish factory, an oil and gas exploration expedition, a river port, an airport, a museum of revolutionaries Y. M. Sverdlov and S. S. Spandaryan in Turukhansk. 

Here you will see the right tributary of the Yenisei – the Lower Tunguska.

In the 17th century, Russian explorers named the river Nizhnyaya Tunguska.

Tunguska – because Tunguska (modern Evenki) lived on its shores, and the definition of Nizhnyaya distinguished it from the other two Tunguska.

Breakfast. 

Free time. 

Lunch. 

Passage of the village of Verkhneimbatsk.

Supper. 

A stop on the water near the village of Bakhta, named after the right tributary of the Yenisei river Bakhta. 

At night we stop in the village of Bor, here we pass another third largest tributary – the Podkamennaya Tunguska.

This is a rapid river, characterized by a kind of wild beauty.

Its length is 1,865 kilometers. 

It is named Podkamennaya because it makes its way to the Yenisei through many hundreds of kilometers through stone cliffs.

After 40 kilometers, the Osinovsky threshold begins – the legendary narrow canyon, which is overcome with great difficulty.

The passage through the threshold is narrow (700 m) and winding. 

Two steamers cannot separate, and the traffic here is one-way.

Passage of the Osinovsky system. 

30 meters from the side of the ship, we observe the island "Monastyrsky", which contains many legends and mysteries of the past, then the rocky islands Korablik and Barochka suddenly appear in front of us as if from a haze, behind them the mighty Yenisei enters the Osinovsky cheeks – the most picturesque area in the lower reaches of the river.

The high granite banks form a corridor with a height of 50 m. 

Breakfast. 

The village of Vorogovo stop was founded more than 350 years ago during the development of Siberia in the 17th century by Cossacks. 

The population is represented by different nationalities: Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Keto. 

Now it has about 2,000 thousand people, local residents organize markets with a wide variety of goods and souvenirs of local craftsmen at the pier by the arrival of the ship.

Lunch. 

Stop in the village of Yartsevo.

It is located in the middle reaches of the Yenisei River between two large left tributaries – the Kas and Sym rivers, a local market is also organized here for the arrival of the ship. 

Supper.

Breakfast.

Arrival in Yeniseisk. 

Accommodation in the Yeniseiskaya hotel in 2, 3-bed rooms.

The hotel is located in the city center, has a unique architecture of the 18th century and an ancient interior. 

The facilities are located on the floor, washbasins with hot and cold water, modern showers. 

The rooms are equipped with handmade pine furniture (beds, bedside tables, cabinets), the halls are carpeted. 

The hotel has a dining room, which is located on the ground floor.

Lunch. 

Excursion to the Museum of Local Lore. 

Sightseeing tour of Yeniseisk – 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 of Yeniseisk 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 Yeniseisk are mainly two–storey houses along the main street, on the embankment and central squares. 

Supper.

Breakfast. 

Continuation of the sightseeing tour of the city of Yeniseisk. 

Visit the Yenisei Transfiguration Monastery, the Resurrection Church, the Church of the Trinity, the Tatar Mosque, as well as the Cossack Gymnasium, where Valentin Felixovich Voino–Yasenetsky, one of the best surgeons of his time, an anatomist, scientist and at the same time a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, worked for a long time. 

Lunch at the hotel. 

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. 

Supper.

Breakfast. 

Excursion to the private Plane Museum.

The only collection of planes that is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. 

Departure by tourist bus to Strelka – the place where the Angara flows into the Yenisei. 

There are many beautiful legends about the beautiful Angara, the only daughter of the old man of Lake Baikal, and the mighty handsome Yenisei. 

Baikal was against their wedding, following his fleeing 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 the Guard Island. 

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

Lunch is a picnic in nature.

Departure to Krasnoyarsk by tourist bus.

In Krasnoyarsk, accommodation in the Krasnoyarsk hotel in 2-bed rooms. 

Dinner at the hotel.

Breakfast. 

Excursion to the Krasnoyarsk Pillars National Park – the natural boundaries of the protected area are the right tributaries of the river. Yenisei: 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 with the city of Krasnoyarsk.

It was founded in 1925 on the initiative of the residents of the city to preserve the natural complexes around the picturesque syenite remnants – "pillars". 

Currently, its area is 47,219 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 are directly "Pillars" – rocks open to tourists, and "Wild pillars" – rocks located deep in the park, access to which is limited. 

Return to the hotel. 

Lunch, rest at the hotel. 

Transfer to the railway station (approximately at 17:30). 

Boarding a train in a compartment car. 

Departure to Minusinsk at 18:40. 

Dinner (lunch box).

Early arrival in Minusinsk, one of the ancient cities of Southern Siberia, founded in 1739, 58 km. 

It is located in the center of the vast forest-steppe Minusinsk basin, surrounded on all sides by mountains. 

Departure to Shushenskoye. 

Accommodation in the New Village hotel complex.  

The New Village 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. 

Excursion to the Historical and Ethnographic Museum-reserve Shushenskoye.

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

The economic activity, everyday life, social life, and spiritual culture of Siberian peasants at the turn of the XIX and XX 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 has 106,225 items of storage. 

It consists of more than 30 different collections: memorabilia, books of the XIX – early XX centuries, vehicles, furniture, clothing, tableware, samovars, musical instruments, religious objects, numismatics, graphics, paintings, tools of agriculture, cattle breeding, hunting, beekeeping, fishing, weaving, wood processing, blacksmithing and shoemaking crafts , etc .

Lunch. 

Visiting exhibitions, demonstration of crafts (weaving), master class.

Supper.

Breakfast. 

Excursion to the Shushenskiy Bor National Park.

The territory of the park is located at the junction of two natural and climatic zones - forest–steppe and taiga and includes unique natural and territorial complexes of the Western Sayan and Minusinsk basin. 

The total area of the park is 39,180 hectares. 

The first national park in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Shushenskiy 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 the history of forestry, untouched taiga, a peasant hut, specially equipped recreation areas and much more. 

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

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, learn interesting facts and stories about the system of protection and study of snow leopards living on 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. 

Arrival at the Visitor Center of the nature park. 

An excursion along the ecological trail of the Siberian hunter, 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 XX century, fishing techniques, ancient samolovs, and enjoy picturesque landscapes. 

After the tour, departure to the campsite. 

Placement. 

Lunch. 

A walk through the park.

Rest.  

Supper.

Breakfast. 

Departure to the Ergaki Nature Park.

Excursion to the Hanging Stone. 

A fairly long route in terms of time and distance will not tire you, because you simply will not have time to think about fatigue.

The changing landscapes, the majesty of the surrounding nature, the splendor of the subalpine meadows, which sometimes light up with orange roasts, then 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 the lake "Rainbow". 

If you look from below, from the lake itself, it seems that the stone is about to break off and fall down with a terrible roar. 

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

And then, heading to the Tarmazakovsky Bridge, it is nearing its logical conclusion (15.8 km - 6-9 hours). 

Lunch 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). 

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

The height of the HPP 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!

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 putting absolutely all his rivals on the shoulder blades 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.

This is the first museum in Siberia and the Far East with 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 to Krasnoyarsk. 

Dinner (lunch box).

Early arrival in Krasnoyarsk (approximately at 06:55 – local time).

Breakfast. 

Sightseeing tour of Krasnoyarsk.

Excursion to the St. Nicholas Steamship Museum, a museum ship located in the eternal parking lot in the city of Krasnoyarsk.

Lunch. 

Excursion to the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, the observation deck over the Yenisei "Tsar-fish", the embankment of Divnogorsk. 

Excursion to the village of Ovsyanka, with a visit to the memorial complex of V.P. Astafiev. 

Return to the hotel. 

Supper.

Breakfast. 

Room release.