Winter trip to the heart of Siberia

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An informative sightseeing tour combines three Siberian cities – Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk. Interesting pages of the history of the development of Siberia from the 17th century to the present day will open before us. The highlight of the tour will be exciting master classes, interactive excursions and original Siberian dishes.

Location

city of Tomsk

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Tour highlights

Mining glory of Siberia

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

Siberian meal

Let's taste the dishes of traditional Siberian cuisine

Wooden lace of Tomsk

Let's take a walk along the Tomsk streets, which have preserved real masterpieces of wooden architecture. We will see a house with firebirds, a house with dragons, a Homich mansion and much more

Itinerary

Day 1 - Sightseeing tour "The city above Tom..."
Arrival in Tomsk.
Transfer from the airport or railway station to the hotel, early check-in, breakfast (hotel "Sport Hotel 3 ***").
When the first Cossacks crossed the Ural mountains, numerous troops of the local khan Kuchum met them belligerently.
The development of Siberia was difficult, a lot of effort was spent on the establishment of the first Cossack prisons. And you will start your journey by visiting one of the first Cossack prisons of the Siberian land.
10:00 Excursion "Visiting the Governor!" to the interactive open-air museum Semiluzhensky ostrog. 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 great-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.
13:00 Lunch at the Siberian Meal restaurant.
14:00 Tomsk History Museum.
Tourists will learn how the city of Tomsk was founded, what the Tomsk prison looked like, get acquainted with the life of the Tomichi and enjoy the panorama of the city from the observation deck.
15:00 Sightseeing tour "The city above Tom...".
The tour tells about the life of the city for 4 centuries, flips through the pages of the history of the city from 1604 to the present day, 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 innovative center.
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 first brought tea from China to the table of the Russian tsar?
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 "NKVD Investigative Prison" – visit to the first memorial museum in Russia.
16:30 Free time.
Additionally, for a fee, you can visit:
A 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 Museum of Slavic Mythology.
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.
11:30 Check-in at the Kuzbass Hotel.
12:00 Transfer to d. Pisanaya (55 km).
13:00 Hunter's lunch at the Yurt cafe.
Excursion to the museum-reserve "Tomskaya Pisanitsa". (Shorsky ulus "Kezek", rock, master class on making petroglyphs.)
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 museum introduces the main milestones in the development of the territory.
We will find out who the inhabitants of the Tom region were in the prehistoric period and in ancient times, the interactive tour "Hunting tales" will introduce the history of the development of commercial hunting in Siberia in the XVII-XX centuries.
16:00 Transfer to Kemerovo (55 km).
17:00 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 on the territory of the Shestakov Archaeological Complex, the largest dinosaur site in Russia.
Nowhere in the There are no similar mass graves in Russia 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 place it among the most unique locations in the world.
18:30 Free time.
For an additional fee:
Dinner at the Zaboy restaurant (additional fee), the average check is 2500 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 tour program includes a performance and a creative meeting with the director of the theater. (from 1500 rubles per person. when recruiting a group of 10 people or more) – booked when booking a tour, paid on the spot.

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Day 4 - Miner's glory
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
09:30 Transfer to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve.
Excursion to the Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve. (expositions of 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 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.
12:00 Transfer to the coal mine.
Excursion to the coal mine with lunch in the canteen of the enterprise.
You have a unique opportunity to see the large-scale production of open-pit coal mining. You will visit the "coordination heart" — the control room, where you will get acquainted with the work of the mining dispatcher and see on the monitors the work of mining equipment in real time; you will visit the observation deck, from where a large-scale panorama of the section and its activities opens.
16:30 Bus and walking tour of the city center.
Getting acquainted with the history, main sights and modern life of the regional center.
18:30 Free time.
On arrival 03.01-08.01, the Kedrovsky section is not visited, it is replaced by a visit to the Zaboy restaurant, an excursion – inspection of trolleys, the office of the director of the mine. Lunch consists of local cuisine (consists of a main course and dessert). Soups, salads, snacks, drinks are optional.

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Day 5 - Bus and walking tour "From the factory to the garden city"
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:30 Transfer to Novokuznetsk (225 km).
11:30 Visit to the Kuznetsk Fortress Museum-Reserve.
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".
The tour introduces the story that inspired the poet — the stories 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 the KMK./ Or the Local History Museum of Novokuznetsk. Excursion "industrial formation of the city".
19:00 Check-in at the Novokuznetsk 3* hotel.

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Day 6 - Departure
05:30-06:30 transfer to the airport Novokuznetsk (23 km) / to the railway station.

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
40 400	46 400

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, Molodosti 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 (breakfast and lunch);
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.

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 (booked in advance, paid on site), master classes, theater entrance tickets, etc.

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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3 – 8 Jan, 2025 6 days 5 nights

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