Our Chinese department:
08:10 Meeting at the airport.
08:45 Transfer by minibus.
09:00 Solemn ceremony of crossing the Arctic Circle with the presentation of personal certificates.
The 66th Parallel stele is a geographical feature of the city, as the only city in the world on the Arctic Circle.
09:30 Accommodation at the Arctic 3* hotel (double rooms).
12:30 Lunch at a cafe/restaurant in the city (additional charge).
14:15 Sightseeing tour of Salekhard.
- Obdorsky Ostrog is the place where the Obdorskaya fortress was founded, which later became Salekhard.
- Victory Park is a large–scale cultural and historical complex featuring military equipment from different eras.
- The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was designed by the German architect Gottlieb Zinke.
- Open-air Aviation Museum.
- The stele of the "Romantics of the 70s".
- Urban street spaces, murals.
- Objects of the 501st Gulag construction site (optional, for an additional fee).
16:00 Visit to the I.S. Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex.
The most important museum in Yamal, which houses a unique exhibit well preserved in permafrost, the baby mammoth Lyuba.
The ethnographic hall presents the culture and way of life of the indigenous peoples of the North, and in the hall of archaeological finds you can get acquainted with the history of the famous first Russian polar city – Mangazeya.
17:20 Visit to the museum of the modern history of Yamal.
In its halls, one can trace the most important historical milestones of Yamal's development up to the present day.
19:00 Dinner at a cafe/restaurant in the city (additional charge).
Meals: not included, self-paid.
