Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Kostroma - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Samara - Volgograd - Astrakhan - Volgograd - Saratov - Ulianovsk - Cheboksary - Nizhny Novgorod from 01.09.17 to 17.09.17, Ship «Ivan Krylov» | Интернет-магазин круизов компании Мостурфлот

Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Kostroma - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Samara - Volgograd - Astrakhan - Volgograd - Saratov - Ulianovsk - Cheboksary - Nizhny Novgorod from 01.09.17 to 17.09.17, Ship «Ivan Krylov»

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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).
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
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
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 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
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