Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Uglich - Kostroma - Ples - Nizhny Novgorod - Cheboksary - Elabuga - Bolgar - Samara - Kazan - Makaryevo - Nizhny Novgorod - Gorodets - Rybinsk - Moscow (NRT) from 08.08.17 to 20.08.17, Ship «Ivan Krylov»
| Port | Excursions | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Uglich |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
2) Tour to the Leather Craft Workshop Museum. Learn about the history of one of the oldest crafts, the leathercraft of Uglich, the production of leather in Russia, the history of the legendary Russian calf leather. Visit an exhibition of antiques and see reconstructed ancient pieces, take a look at original models of leather making equipment of the 17-19th century. Learn about contemporary art: leather carving, embossing, sculptures. At the end of the tour, each of the visitors will be able to briefly become an artisan and create a magnet, take pics with the exhibits, or read his/her fortune on runes. Visit the Alexey Monastery. The tour lasts 2 hours (for groups of 15 people and more).
3) Walking tour to the Hydroelectric Power Museum. (Group size: 20+.)
4) Tour to the Vintage Scooter Bike Museum. Find out about the evolution of the bicycle. The museum displays the 19-20th century bicycles, sports bicycles and leisure bicycles, bikes for adults and kids, etc. Ride any of the museum exhibits! Visit to the Alexeevsky Monastery. Tour length 2 hours. (Group Size: 20+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Walking tour to the Hydroelectric Power Museum. (Group size: 15+.)
| Group from 5 pax: 1200 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 600 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 400 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Visit to museum “History of Russian Vodka”. You will hear the story of Peter Smirnoff, view different types of alcohol stills and see a display of antique bottles. Tour length - 30 minutes.
| Group from 5 pax: 450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Kremlin walking tour with a visit to the Сhurch of Prince Dmitry “On Blood”, the Palaces of the Princes (1st floors), and Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Cathedral. Tour length - 1.5 hours. (alternative to the main excursion)
| Group from 10 pax: 650 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Martynovo village. Tour length - 4 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 2500 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
A Visit to Daria in Ivashkovo Program. The program features a tour of an old farmhouse and a farmyard, an introduction of different equestrian equipment (sledges, carts, harnesses) and peasant linen crafts. You can feed animals at the petting zoo. The program concludes with a Russian tea ceremony and pancakes. Tour length – 2 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
How to milk a cow Tour.
Welcome to the Voshazhnikovo dairy farm – one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Russia. Find out about the farm’s legacy and main activities, enjoy the modern dairy farm experience, meet the calves at the “cow day-care” and get to know record-setting cows that can produce more than 60 liters of milk per day. Kids can learn about tractors, sit at the steering wheel and take lots of pics! Tour length – 3.5 hours. (Distance is 55 km. Trip duration is 1 hour, one way.) | Group from 10 pax: 2000 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 1600 rub. per person Group from 20 pax: 1400 rub. per person | |
| Kostroma |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
2) City bus tour Blessed Kostroma with a visit to the functioning Epiphany Convent of St. Anastasia, stores, farmer market, cheese stores, textile, linen and jewelry shops. Tour length – 3 hours. (Group size: 35+)
3 ) City bus tour with a stop at Kostroma Jewelry Factory. Tour length - 3 hours. (Group size: 35+)
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Bus Tour to the Kostroma Drama Theatre of A.Ostrovsky. The tourists can find out about the theatre’s set-up, check the props and scenery workshops, the sewing room, the wig department and wardrobe, view the auditorium from the balcony. Here at the theatre the visitors can discover many interesting facts about the history of the Russian theater costume – for instance, look at the costumes of boyars (court nobility), townsmen, streltzy (shooters), merchants, noblemen from the plays by Ostrovsky, Alexey Tolstoy, Chekhov, Lev Tolstoy and also by classics of world literature such as Lope de Vega and Sсhiller. Tour length – 3 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1200 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
City bus tour with a stop at “Snow Maiden's Fairy-Tale Mansion”. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 800 rub. per person Group from 35 pax: 650 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Sumarokovo Reindeer Farm. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 1 pax: 13900 rub. per person Group from 3 pax: 5500 rub. per person Group from 8 pax: 3000 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 2300 rub. per person | |
| Ples |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) City walking tour with a stop at The Landscape Museum.
2)Walking City Tour along the embankment, no uphill walking required. Stop at the Landscape Museum. Group size: 20+ people. Tour duration – 1 ½ hour.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
City walking tour with a stop at the museum of the famous artist Isaac Levitan.Tour length – 3 hours.
| Group from 20 pax: 600 rub. per person | |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Bus tour "City over the Volga and Oka"- story of the city in the 13th to 21st centuries.
2) City bus tour with a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and a stop at Maxim Gorky Museum House. Group size: 35+. Tour length - 3 hours.
3) Bus tour "Russian Orthodox Cathedrals and Monasteries" with a visit to Stroganov church, Saviour (Old Fair) Cathedral, Spassky Staroyarmarochny Cathedral, and Blagoveshchensky and Pechersky Ascension monasteries. (Group size: 35+). Tour length - 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Bus tour "Industrial Nizhny" with a visit to the Museum of City Transport. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the first cities of Russia that launched a railway tram, doing so in 1869. Rare trams of Nizhny Novgorod are exhibited in the useum of electric transport. Don’t miss wagons VDN-82, RV, HDP-6, and a replica of a pre-revolutionary open platform wagon at depot № 1. Hop into the operator’s cab and try the tram driver’s seat for yourself. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 5 pax: 2700 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 1400 rub. per person Group from 16 pax: 1200 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 800 rub. per person Group from 31 pax: 650 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Christmas ornament factory “Ariel”. You will visit a glass blowing workshop where you can watch the artists manually painting the Christmas decorations, following a tradition unchanged since the 19th century. You can also try to paint your own ornament as a souvenir. After the factory visit you can also stop by the factory museum (the tour to the factory doesn’t include a guided museum tour).
Check the factory shop for bargains.
Tour length - 3 hours. | Group from 15 pax: 3000 rub. per person | |
| Cheboksary |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Bus tour Cheboksary in Russia’s History. Tour length - 3 hours. (Group size: 35+).
2) City bus tour with a visit to the unique Russian Tractor History Museum. Tour length - 3 hours. (Group size: 35+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Folk program Let Your Soul Rejoice followed by a beer tasting. Tour length – 1-1.5 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Tikhvin Bogoroditsky (Mother of God) Women’s Monastery. Tour length - 3,5 hours.
| Group from 12 pax: 2100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Walking tour to the Embroidery Museum. Chuvash embroidery is a unique phenomenon of world culture, and a hallmark of this people. A requirement for authentic folk costumes, embroidery served as a symbol of ethnic origin, age group, and social class. The exhibit displays the history of the traditional embroidery up to the 19th century. There is also a hall at the museum called Silver Pantry where women's silver jewelry is exhibited. Tour length – 2.5 hours.
| Group from 5 pax: 1500 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 800 rub. per person Group from 20 pax: 600 rub. per person Group from 30 pax: 400 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Chapaev Museum. The exhibitions of the museum introduce visitors to the life and work of the legendary division commander, tell tourists about Chapaev’s studies at the General Staff Academy, his participation in wars, his battles against Kolchak, and his struggle for the establishment of the Soviet regime, and display his military decorations. The horse-drawn Machine-gun platform tachanka, Chapaev’s burka (traditional men’s coat), his sword, saber, revolver, pistol, rifle, Maxim machine gun , and horse saddles allow visitors to take an imaginary time machine back to the era of the Civil War.
Among the exhibits of great interest are genuine documents and photographs, four crosses and a medal of St. George, an Order of the Red Banner and a questionnaire personally filled by Chapaev.
After visiting the museum tourists are transported to the Akkond confectionery shop where they will participate in a candy tasting, as well as shopping at the Hosiery and Knitwear Factory. After completion of the itinerary, tourists will return to the River Terminal.
Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 8 pax: 2200 rub. per person Group from 12 pax: 1600 rub. per person Group from 18 pax: 1400 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 1100 rub. per person Group from 36 pax: 900 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to 2 capitals Cheboksary- Yoshkar-Ola. Tour length - 8 hours.
| Group from 25 pax: 3000 rub. per person | |
| Elabuga |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) City bus tour with a tour of the Bekhterev Museum of local medicine, the Shishkin House Museum and the Museum-Estate of the cavalry-girl Nadezhda Durova.
Tour length – 3-4 hours.
2) City bus tour “Tsvetaeva’s Elabuga» with a visit to the literary museum of Tsvetaeva, the Memorial of Tsvetaeva, the “Portomoynya” Museum (lit. “trouser washing”), and Pokrov Church. Tour length – 3-4 hours. (Group size: 35+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Bulgar |
Excursion package: Walking tour of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve. Visit the Bulgarian Civilization Museum, the Quran Museum, the Congressional Mosque, the Northern Mausoleum, the Eastern Chamber and Black Chamber. Tour length – 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Samara |
Excursion package of you choice
1.Bus tour “Getting to know Samara” with a visit to the “Stalin’s bunker” (Samara). Tour length – 3 hours.
2. Bus tour “Samara churches” with stops at Iversky Monastery, Pokrov Cathedral. Group size: 35+. Tour length: 3 hours.
3. Getting to Know Samara Bus Tour with a stop at the Art Museum. The largest art collection of the Volga region includes paintings by Repin, Surikov, Polenov and other prominent Russian painters. Group size: 35+. Tour length: 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Beer Brewing in Samara bus tour. Visit the brewery and taste beer at Maximillian’s, a Bavarian restaurant.
Tour length – 3 hours. | Group from 15 pax: 1900 rub. per person | |
| Kazan |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Historic downtown bus tour: The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Kaban Lake, Tatar Sloboda, Kazan Kremlin (The Annunciation Cathedral, Kul Sharif Mosque, Tower of Soyembika). Tour length – 3½ hours.
2) Sport in Kazan city bus tour with a stop at the Kremlin. During the tour you can visit the sports venues of the 2013 Universiade, the 2015 World Aquatics Championship and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Group size: 35+. Tour length – 3½ hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
City bus tour. Tatar Cuisine Secrets (master class and tasting). Tour duration – 3 hours.
| Group from 5 pax: 3000 rub. per person Group from 8 pax: 2000 rub. per person Group from 11 pax: 1700 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 1500 rub. per person Group from 19 pax: 1700 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 1500 rub. per person Group from 35 pax: 1300 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
City bus tour with a stop at Chak-chak Museum (excursion and tasting of chak-chak, a Tatar fried honey cake). Tour duration – 4 hours.
| Group from 35 pax: 800 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the nature reserve “Sviyazhsk Island”. Sviyazhsk is a fortress, built in 1552 as a military base during the siege of Kazan by the troops of Ivan the Terrible. Tour length - 6 hours. Travel time - 3 hours.
| Group from 5 pax: 4300 rub. per person Group from 8 pax: 2700 rub. per person Group from 11 pax: 2000 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 1600 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 1200 rub. per person Group from 35 pax: 900 rub. per person | |
| Makaryevo |
Excursion package: Excursion to the Holy-Trinity Makaryev Gheltovodsky Convent. Tour of the architectural ensemble of the 17th century and an introduction to the monastery’s history.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Excursion package
Bus tour to Gorodets. Trip to Feodorovsky Monastery and the fortifications. Tour to the Holy “Nicholas’ Spring”, where you will discover the history of popular beliefs, rites and celebrations.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Departure for the guided tour from Nizhny Novgorod. Bus tour "Semenov-the Capital of Golden Khokhloma". Visit to the "Khokhloma Painting" factory". Return to Gorodets by ship after the tour. Tour length - 7 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 4900 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 3450 rub. per person Group from 30 pax: 2500 rub. per person | |
| Rybinsk |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1)Historic downtown walking excursion with a tour of the Monument to the Barge Hauler, Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Cathedral, monument to Russian poet Lev Oshanin. Tour length - 1.5 hours.
2) Historic downtown walking excursion with a stop at Admiral Fyodor Ushakov Museum (the unconquerable Russian naval commander). The first exposition is dedicated to the Ushakovs family lineage, Fyodor’s childhood, his training at the Russian Marine Cadet Corps, his first combat experience, battles (none of which was lost), last years of his life. The exposition Memory and canonization is an overview of the landmarks and memorials dedicated to Admiral Ushakov, ships named in his honour, his military decorations. Life size figures, weapons, clothes, model of a sailing ship bridge, a ship bell are exhibited at the Sailor, Naval Cadet, Fleet Officer of the 17th century and At the flagship bridge exhibitions. (Group size: 25+). Tour length – 2.5 hours.
3) People Who Made the Great Cities Great Tour. During the walking tour, tourists will learn more about the history of the Nobel family in Russia and in Rybinsk, in particular. Find out about the relations between the Nobels and Rybinsk manufacturers and merchants, the Ludvig Nobel Monument, and the construction of the Nobel Boulevard in Rybinsk. (Group Size: 25+). Tour length: 2½ hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |