Cruise excursion program Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Samara - Volgograd - Astrakhan - Volgograd - Saratov - Ulianovsk - Cheboksary - Nizhny Novgorod - Yaroslavl - Moscow (NRT) from 04.09.17 to 20.09.17, Ship «Ivan Krylov» | Интернет-магазин круизов компании Мостурфлот

Cruise excursion program Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Samara - Volgograd - Astrakhan - Volgograd - Saratov - Ulianovsk - Cheboksary - Nizhny Novgorod - Yaroslavl - Moscow (NRT) from 04.09.17 to 20.09.17, Ship «Ivan Krylov»

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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
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
Usovka
 
Included in the price of cruise
Volgograd
Excursion package:Bus tour “Hero city Volgograd. Battle of Stalingrad Heroes Memorial on Mamaev Kurgan”. Tour length: 3 hours.
Included in the price of cruise
Astrakhan
Excursion package of you choice:
  1. Bus tour “Historical and memorial city sights”. Visit to the Astrakhan Kremlin. Fish market. Tour length: 3 hours.
  2. Bus tour “Where religions intersect". Visit to Orthodox churches, a Muslim mosque and a Catholic church (Group: 35+ people) Tour length: 3 hours.
  3. The Merchants of Astrakhan Bus tour. Tourists will find out about the rise of the merchant class in Astrakhan, learn about merchant families that were well known not only in Astrakhan, but all across the country. Explore the oldest street in Astrakhan with its surviving Indian, Persian, Armenian merchant houses and ancient mansions. Stop at the House of Merchant Tetyushinov and at the Art Gallery founded by Merchant Pavel Dogadin.
    Tour length - 3 hours.
Included in the price of cruise
Included in the price of cruise
Optional excursion
Excursion Astrakhan Nature reserve. Trip to the Volga Delta, including boat rides and a lunch of fish dishes. Tour length – 6-8 hours.
Group from 20 pax: 4500 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Excursion On the Golden Coast. Stop at the cultural complex dedicated to Kazakh composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev. Tourists will visit the museum, Mausoleum, a Kazakh yurta (portable tent used by nomadic people). They will enjoy a dastarkhan (traditional lunch), a folk ceremony and a concert of Kazakh music. Tour length – 5 hours.
Group from 25 pax: 2300 rub. per person
Akhtuba
Green stop.
Included in the price of cruise
Volgograd
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
  1. Bus tour “Tsaritsyn Old City: urban legends and true-life stories” with a stop at the Musical Instruments Museum. Excursion to the southern part of Volgograd. A history of colonial settlement and exploitation of natural resources in the area. Tour length: 3 hours.
  2. Bus tour “Tsaritsyn Old City: urban legends and true-life stories” with a stop at the Museum Reserve Old Sarepta. It is the largest surviving architectural monument built by Herrnhuters. The Sarepta colony was founded in 1765 by missionaries from the city of Herrnhut who settled here at the invitation of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. Sarepta became home to the first plumbing system, lift, museum, public library, day care center and many more innovations in the Volga Region. The settlers achieved great scientific progress in medicine, chemistry, physics, industrial technologies, development of new crops. Tour length: 4.5 hours. Group size: 35+
Included in the price of cruise
Saratov
Excursion package of you choice:
1)Introduction to Saratov bus tour with a stop at the open-air National Village Museum and lemon orchard on Sokolovaya Mountain. Tour length – 3 hours.
2) Symbols of the Saratov Province bus tour with a stop at the Saratov Harmonica Museum. Tour length – 3 hours.
3)Introduction to Saratov bus tour with a stop at the Museum on Falcon Mountain. The Military Hall of Fame site displays all types of military equipment: armored fighting vehicles, aviation, artillery pieces, both modern and dating from the Great Patriotic War period. Tour length: 3 hours.
4)Bus tour to Gorky City Park. Enjoy the excursion to the City Park of Culture and Recreation — a magnificent monument of landscaping art. It is an absolutely stunning park! The park’s alleys flow around the ponds, the flower beds are beautifully constructed, the views are splendid. Tour length – 3 hours.
Included in the price of cruise
Sea day.
Included in the price of cruise
Ulianovsk
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Bus and walking tour "Motherland of Lenin" with a visit to Simbirsk Classical Preparatory School Museum and the House Museum of Lenin. Tour length -  3 hours.
2)Bus and walking tour Charming Old Simbirsk with stops at the City life museum estate Simbirsk at the turn of the 20th century and the Simbirsk photography museum where visitors can have their pictures taken in vintage clothes of the 19th century. Tour length – 3 hours. (Group size: 19+).
3) Bus tour with a visit to Simbirsk Museum of Civil Aviation. (Group size: 35+). Tour length -  3 hours.
4)Domes of Simbirsk Bus & Walking Tour with stops at the Germanovskaya church, Simbirsk Chuvash school. Apartment of Ivan Yakovlev museum, Descent of the Holy Spirit Cathedral to the Apostles, the site of the Pokrov Savior and Ascension Monastery in the Name of All Saints. Tour length – 4 hours (group size: 19+).
 
Included in the price of cruise
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
Nizhny Novgorod
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
Yaroslavl Included in the price of cruise
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Rostov Velikiy (Rostov the Great) – one of the oldest cities of our country. This tour walks you through the city’s evolution. Don’t miss the Rostov Kremlin. (56 km from Yaroslavl). Tour length -  5 hours.
Group from 19 pax: 1600 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Linen King in Gavrilov Yam, a city located in 50 km from Yaroslavl. At the First Guild Merchant Lokalov’s Linen Manufacture Museum located in the building of a former parochial school you will discover the story of the linen industry development, find out about merchant Lokalov and his workers. There are many authentic exhibits and documents at the museum. A tea-drinking party “in the English style” concludes the tour. There are many linen products at the museum shop. Next stop is the Aurika’s Gardens pottery enterprise. Check the furnaces which are exact replicas of 18th century furnaces, visit the production facilities where a piece of clay will turn into a masterpiece right before your eyes. You can buy ceramic ware at the shop. Tour length – 5 hours.
Group from 15 pax: 1800 rub. per person
Group from 30 pax: 1400 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Group from 10 pax: 1600 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Bus excursion to the center of Yaroslavl City with a visit to the city zoo. The zoo area is more than 120 hectares – one of the largest in the world. The zoo is presented as a landscape park. The excursion time is 3 hours.
Group from 10 pax: 2900 rub. per person
Group from 19 pax: 2450 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Karabikha Estate. You will learn about the history of the estate and its owners.  You will be transported to the past and feel like a nobleman in a house where everything preserves the memory of the great Russian poet Nekrasov.
Tour length -  3 hours.
Group from 15 pax: 2600 rub. per person
Group from 25 pax: 2200 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Interactive program at the Emalis Enamel Art Museum. The three halls of the museum display exhibits made in the following techniques: painted enamel, cloisonné enamel, champlevé enamel, filigree enamel, jewelry enamel. During the excursion the visitors will find out about the evolution of the “hot enamel” technique and will admire the best works of the world’s leading master craftsmen. Each visitor has an opportunity to create his own art work and bake it in a muffle furnace at 850° under the supervision of master craftsmen. The program also involves the tour of the art gallery with a great selection of exclusive paintings, jewelry and souvenirs made with the use of hot enamel technique.Tour length – 2 ½ hours.
Group from 10 pax: 1500 rub. per person
Koprino

A new “green stop” on the bank of Rybinsk reservoir Yaroslavl Seashore. The nature of Yaroslavl Seashore is one of its main attractions. The endless expanses of the waters of the Rybinsk Sea, the picturesque bay framed by sandy beaches, the beauty of centennial pines and firs are such a treat for a stressed-out city resident. The majestic nature of central Russia is shown here in all its splendor.

You can rent sports equipment, adult and children's bicycles, roller skates, and electric cars.

There is also a mini-zoo (with ostriches, reindeer, lambs, sheep, goats, a camel, and a llama). There is a clean forest nearby where you can collect mushrooms and go on comfortable promenades - all at your leisure.

Included in the price of cruise
Myshkin
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
 1) Walking tour “Visit to the mice at the old mill” with an excursion to the old mill, the Museum of Russian Valenki, the artisans' house and Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral. Tour length -  2-2.5 hours.
2)Walking Tour for Kids and Their Parents. Visit to the Mouse Palace. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 1.5-2 hours.
3)Provincial Kaleidoscope Walking Tour. A city sightseeing excursion, including a tour of some interesting wooden houses (Shipbuilder’s Thomson House, Myshkin Sheremetyev’s Station), visit to the old mill house with the Barn Mice display, the Victory Memorial, the Dormition Cathedral. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 2.5 hours.
Included in the price of cruise
Optional excursion
Walking-tour “Myshkin People’s Museum” with a visit to the “Mice Museum”, the “Boat Pilot Museum”, (or “Smirnoff Vodka Museum”) and the museum of wooden architecture and open air exhibition of retro auto equipment. (Group size: 20+)  Program length – 1.5 hours.
Group from 20 pax: 500 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Meet the Avdotias Folk and Recreation Program.
Group from 15 pax: 450 rub. per person
Group from 25 pax: 350 rub. per person
Optional excursion
Folk show “Visit to the Miller for Pancakes»”
(Group size: 5+.)
Group from 15 pax: 350 rub. per person