Siberian New Year. Holiday tour to Tyumen for 5 days

Breakfast at the hotel.

10:00-12:30 Sightseeing tour of Tyumen with elements of theatrical "Winter revelry". 

The New Year holidays are not over, everything is just beginning! 

We invite you to an extraordinary journey through the "fabulous" Tyumen! 

After driving through the historical center of the city, you will learn its history, how merchants and ordinary people celebrated the New Year in the XVIII-XX centuries in the city on Tour, where they organized balls, masquerades, street festivities, round dances and dances, fireworks and booths. 

During the tour, the group is expected to meet with characters – gypsy Rada from Zarechye (divination from a magic chest for the coming year), merchant Valyusha Kolokolnikova (treats tea from a steaming samovar, berry tincture, Tyumen sweets).

12:40-13:40 Lunch in a cafe in the city.

13:40 Departure to Kyshtyrla village.

14:40-16:00 Visit to the ethnic cemetery "Uvas mir Hot" (House of the Northern people). 

An interactive tour of the real camp of the peoples of the North awaits you, within the framework of which you will get acquainted with the life of the northern peoples, their material and spiritual culture. 

Full immersion by means of visiting national dwellings, Khanty residential building, Nenets plague, seasonal hunting hut with decoration. 

The program includes a traditional purification ceremony at a Holy Place with seven guardians of the earth and colored ribbons. 

Visitors have a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the gaming culture of the northern ethnic groups and compete themselves in strength, endurance and accuracy in tug-of-war on deer skins, jumping over sleds, and their favorite game "Kusan Yuh" – "Game with rings". 

It is impossible to imagine visiting the House of Northern people without fragrant tea from the collection of taiga herbs, cooked over a campfire with fresh berries.

16:00 Departure to the hot springs.

17:00-19:00 Swimming at the spring.

Hot springs have long been the hallmark of Tyumen. 

Not only Tyumen residents relax here, residents of other regions know about the year-round bathing season and the healing properties of mineral water in hot springs. 

Here you can relax and forget about the business and problems of everyday life for a while.

19:00 Departure to Tyumen.

20:00 Arrival at the hotel. 

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Room release.

08:00 Departure to Tobolsk.

12:00-13:00 Arrival in Abalak village. 

Visit to the Abalak monastery. 

A few kilometers from Tobolsk, an ancient Tatar village has been standing since time immemorial, where incredible miracles have been happening for a long time. 

Now Abalak is famous for the Holy Sign Monastery, located on the picturesque steep bank of the Irtysh. 

In the monastery you will get acquainted with the facts and legends about the ancient miraculous icon "The Sign".

13:30 Arrival in Tobolsk.

13:30-14:30 Lunch at a cafe in the city.

14:40-15:40 Excursion to the Viceroy's Palace Museum. 

The exposition of the Governor's Palace reveals the theme of the 300-year rule of Siberia, starting with the victories of Ataman Ermak's detachment and the establishment of voivodeship, before the revolutionary events of 1917.

15:50-16:50 Master class "Nettle workshop".

At the master class, guests will get acquainted with the technology of making nettle thread and a unique collection of nettle cloth products brought from northern expeditions more than a hundred years ago.

17:00 Transfer to the hotel. 

Check-in. 

Free time.

20:00 Gala dinner (extra charge). Information about the banquet at the hotel and New Year celebrations in the city will be available later.

Breakfast at the hotel. 

Room release.

12:00-13:30 Guided tour of the Tobolsk Kremlin, which has become a special symbol of state power in Russia, the spiritual and administrative center of a vast and distant region, it is rightfully called the Pearl of Siberia. 

All the royal guests began their acquaintance with Tobolsk with a walk through the territory of the Kremlin, a visit to the oldest temple in Siberia – St. Sophia Assumption Cathedral.

14:00-15:00 Guided tour of the interactive open-air museum "Posad of Siberian old-timers". 

It is a rebuilt wooden town of the XVIII century with manors, a church, a marina, a windmill. 

The complex is located on the shore of the Irtysh at the foot of the Chuvash Cape, built in 2017 as a filming facility for the film "Tobol". 

Wooden pavements, Cossack ploughs, chambers of the first head of the Siberian province Matvey Gagarin, the estate of architect, chronicler and cartographer Semyon Remezov have been recreated on the territory of the museum complex.

15:20-16:20 Lunch at a cafe in Tobolsk.

16:30-17:30 Free time on the territory of the Kremlin. 

17:30 Departure to Tyumen.

21:30 Approximate arrival in Tyumen. 

Check-in at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Room release.

12:00 Departure for the tour.

12:30-15:30 Tamle Master class

Welcome tea with traditional pastries.

You will be welcomed in the Tatar house with warmth and comfort, as an old friend. 

Before the master class, over tea, you will discover the history of Bukhara yurts, learn about the way of life and traditions of the Tatars. 

And on the table for you will be delicious national pastries prepared by the hostess herself: urama, balan byalesh, kyakyash — and that's not all!

Tatar cuisine as a mirror of culture.

At the culinary master class, you will discover what an amazing ethnic group, like a layer cake, the Siberian Tatars, Bukharans and Volga Tatars made up. 

And in the process of cooking a traditional dish, you will understand how vividly the national cuisine reflects the history, customs, customs and interpenetration of cultures of the peoples of Siberia.

To get to know the Tatars of Siberia, you definitely need to try their gastronomic products, and even better, of course, cook them yourself! 

You will be offered a choice to do:

• echpochmak (triangular shaped Tatar pies with chicken fillet);
• tokmach (thin Tatar noodles);
• vak byalesh (round pies with potatoes and meat);
• or urama (festive Tatar firewood).

The forgotten history of Western Siberia.

Bukharians brought Islam to Siberia 700 years ago and significantly influenced the development of education, leather industry and carpet weaving. And then they disappeared, and now they are remembered only by Turkologists. 

In the old quarter of Yanavyl, Mrs. Almira will introduce you to this distinctive facet of Tyumen. 

Visiting her, you will hear about the origin of the Bukharians, their complex ethnic composition, the history of migration to Siberia, their contribution to local culture and the reasons for the disappearance in the population census in the 20th century.

Almira's warm welcome has already been appreciated by many travelers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Abakan and other cities. 

The participants of the master classes of the hostess were also distinguished guests - Fekla Tolstaya and Mikhail Kozhukhov.

16:00-17:00 Visit to the local produce market to buy gastronomic souvenirs.

17:00 Transfer to the airport.