Legends of Kuzbass

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This tour is a journey through millions of years: you will descend into the burning heart of a coal mine, and then find yourself face to face with a dinosaur that walked here 120 million years ago. You will see how industrial might meets ancient spirits on the rocks of the Tomskaya Pisanitsa.

You will follow in the footsteps of Dostoevsky and be inspired by Mayakovsky's lines in the garden city, take a cable car up to the shamanic peak of Karitshal Mountain. Here, among the alpine meadows, the history of the Great Silk Road is intertwined with the legends of the Mountain Shoria.

Location

Kemerovo

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Tour highlights

Mining glory of Siberia

You will see the large-scale production from a panoramic height and look into the "coordinating heart" of the giant section.

The time machine in the rocks

Decipher the ancestral messages left on the Tomskaya Pisanitsa stones 6,000 years ago, and immediately create your own petroglyph.

Journey across the water to the Golden Shoria

Take a motorboat ride along the Mras-Su mountain river to see one of the seven wonders of Kuzbass, the mystical sculpture by Dasha Namdakov.

Itinerary

Day 1 - Guided tour of the coal mine. Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve tour
Meeting at the airport, transfer to the hotel. Accommodation at the Kuzbass 3* hotel.
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
11:30 Transfer to the coal mine.
Guided tour of the coal mine with lunch in the canteen of the enterprise. You have a unique opportunity to see large-scale open-pit coal production.
You will visit the "coordination heart", a control room where you will get acquainted with the work of a mining dispatcher and see the work of mining equipment on monitors in real time; you will visit the observation deck, which offers a large—scale panorama of the section and its activities.
Transfer to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve with a visit to the monument to E. Neizvestny.
Excursion to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve (exhibitions Rutgers House, Mine). Krasnaya Gorka is a museum of industrial history, created at the site of the opening of the Kuznetsk coal basin. The Mine exposition presents the history of coal mining from the first tunnels to the sections.
The museum introduces the history of the unique organization AIC 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 "In Memory of the Kuzbass Miners" by the famous sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.
For an additional fee:
Dinner at the Zaboy restaurant (extra charge) — the average check is 2500 rubles.;
The Inimitable tour to the legendary Loge Theater, 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 tour program includes a performance and a creative meeting with the director of the theater (from 1,500 rubles per person). when recruiting a group of 10 people or more) – to be booked at the time of booking the tour, to be paid on the spot.
Day 2 - Bus and walking tour of Kemerovo. Guided tour of the Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum-Reserve. Excursion to the Department of Nature of the Kemerovo Museum of Local Lore
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
09:30 Bus and walking tour of the city. On our tour, we will walk along the embankment, visit the cozy courtyard of the zhilkombinat. We will tell you what unites Kemerovo with the Moscow Art Theater, show you the "St. Petersburg" arches.
We will show you how dynamically the city is changing today: new facilities are appearing, new approaches to space organization are being implemented. You will see that Kemerovo is a city of optimists. This epithet, given to the city by a Moscow journalist back in 1929, remains relevant today.
11:30 a.m. Transfer to Pisanaya (55 km).
Guided tour of the Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum-Reserve. Shorsky ulus "Kezek", rock, a master class on making petroglyphs.
Tomskaya Pisanitsa is an ancient sanctuary with rock paintings of the late Neolithic and 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 museum introduces the main milestones of the territory development. We will find out who the inhabitants of the Tom region were in the prehistoric period and in ancient times.
Hunter's lunch at the Yurt cafe.
Transfer to Kemerovo (55 km).
17:00 An excursion to 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.
The skeleton was discovered by the museum's expedition team in 2014 during excavations at the Shestakov Archaeological Complex, the largest dinosaur site in Russia.
Nowhere in Russia are there such mass graves with perfectly preserved whole skeletons and the remains of entire dinosaur families. The finds of animals from the beginning of the Cretaceous period in Shestakovo are so significant that they put it among the most unique locations in the world.

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Day 3 - Novokuznetsk
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:30 Transfer to Novokuznetsk (225 km).
11:30 Visit to the museum-reserve "Kuznetsk Fortress". The history of the city begins with the construction of the Kuznetsk prison in 1618. Later, in 1800, the construction of the Kuznetsk Fortress was started to protect Southern Siberia from the Chinese threat.
Kuznetsk Fortress is the only bastion—type museum in the Urals. A powerful defensive structure, real fortress cannons are a great place for a photo shoot.
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.
14:00 Lunch at a cafe in the city.
Bus and walking tour "From the factory to the garden city". "I know — the city will be, I know, the garden will blossom..." — Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicated these famous lines to the builders of Kuznetsk.
The tour introduces the story that inspired the poet — the stories of the construction of one of the world's largest metallurgical plants, the Kuznetsk Metallurgical.
A reflection of the factory character in the appearance and culture of the city, a trip through the mystical tunnel of the KMK, acquaintance with the main architectural symbols of the city.
For an additional fee: An excursion to the largest museum of automotive technology in Siberia, Retropark (700 rubles).
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. Or the Novokuznetsk Museum of Local Lore Tour "industrial development of the city" (from 250 rubles).
Day 4 - The Edge of the Living Mountains Sightseeing Tour
09:30 Gathering of the group at Novokuznetsk railway station. Transfer from Novokuznetsk to Sheregesh (165km)
12:30 Sightseeing tour "The Edge of the living Mountains". The cable car ascent to Mount Karitshal (1270m) is a place of worship for Shorsk shamans, residents of Gornaya Shoria. The black taiga, alpine meadows, and mountain tundra are all in one shot.
The history of the development of the region from the Great Silk Road to the Siberian metallurgical giants of the industrial (Soviet) era, a return to the roots. An observation deck, legends and photosets at the top.
Lunch at a cafe. Check-in at the hotel.
Free time.
For an additional fee:
"dog trekking in Gornaya Shoriya". A walk in conjunction with a companion dog in the vicinity of the hotel town. Cross-country route, children from 10 years old are allowed (1000 rubles);
ethnographic evening with a master class on cooking Shor cuisine, dinner. (2000 rubles. — when recruiting a group of 10 people or more).
Day 5 - A trip to Shorsky Ulus
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
10:00 Excursion to Shorsky ulus. Ust–Kabyrza, a large Shorsky ulus, is located 80 km from the village of Sheregesh in the Siberian taiga. You will take a boat trip on motorboats along the picturesque mountain taiga river Mras-Su.
Meet with a local artist and get acquainted with her work, see one of the seven wonders of Kuzbass – the sculpture Golden Shoria sculpture by the world-famous sculptor Dasha Namdakov.
Lunch.
Free time.

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Day 6 - The heart of Sheregesh
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
10:00 Free time for additional excursions.
ATV tour to the megaliths (for an additional fee starting from 2500 rubles)
13:00 Excursion to the Heart of Sheregesh lake, a wonderful artificial lake in the shape of a heart, a pleasant walk through the taiga forest along the banks of the Mundybash River.
14:00 Lunch — picnic on the lake shore.
15:30 Transfer to Novokuznetsk
18:00 arrival in Novokuznetsk – The end of the program at the railway station of Novokuznetsk / at the Novokuznetsk hotel.
Transfer to Kemerovo – 21:00 arrival in Kemerovo
For an additional fee. Extension of stay at the Novokuznetsk hotel (from 2,100 rubles).

Difficulty

Suitable for everyone

Accommodation

Hotel

7 nights

Comfort

Midscale

The tour includes hotel accommodation.

The cost of the tour for 1 person: 60,300 rubles (for double occupancy in standard rooms).

Surcharge for single occupancy: 9,600 rubles.

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, Molodosti Square and the Singing Fountain.

The Sport Hotel consists of 44 comfortable rooms of various categories: standard, suite, apartments (with a fully equipped 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 a panoramic view of the city and a conference room with all the necessary equipment.

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