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SAMPLE TOURS

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SAMPLE TOURS

Here we suggest the best optimized routes unless you have your special plans for sightseeing. We shall consider your suggested itinerary and work out the best solution together.

Below are ONE,  TWO and THREE day best sample tours. See the LIST of most frequently requested sites.
The usual duration of sightseeing is 5-6 hours/day.

TOURS

Normally include:
- Working out of your program
-Pre-tour consulting and preparations for your program
-Airport-Hotel  transfers /on request for extra fee of 20Euro/one way/
-Transport
-Guided tour/English language/
-Printed materials/maps, pictures and documents to illustrate the tour/

RATES
 

Individual customized programs that require special preparations and research have special negotiated rates
The programs that have been designed for our original routes and narration plans have the following     RATES

Tour companies and organized groups are welcome to negotiate special programs with special rates.
All tours must be reserved and deposited .

POSSIBLE SIGHTSEEING DESTINATIONS

Downtown of Stalingrad

-The "Red Square"-Fallen Heroes' Square - Univermag Department Store (6th Army HQ capitulated in the cellars of the building)
-Railway Station "Stalingrad-I", Dancing Girls fountain location, Memorial post
-Tsaritsa River Gorge/Asrakhansky Bridge/Ferries in the Battle
-Sergeant Pavlov's House
-Rodimtsev/13th Guards Division Street-former Solnechnaya str./The Division HQ in sewerage pipe
-Stalin's Embankment -Fire ship "Gasitel"
-Mamai Hill Memorial Ensemble/Changing Guards, Chuikov's Grave, Common Grave, German Pill-Box, The Brook (Zaitsev's position, Water Tanks and history of the Mamai Hill ensemble
-Stalingrad Panoramic Museum
Flour Factory ruins/Field Arms Exhibition
 

South-West Frontline

-Voroponovo /Alexeevka/Karpovka-Marinovka-Dmitrievka/Kalach-Sovietsky/the Don Heights, bridge/
-Golubinskaya settlement(6th Army HQ)
-Joseph Stalin (JS) Memorial Tank
-Soviet Troops Reunion(Nov.23) Memorial
-Concentration Camp# 205 site
-Austrian Memorial in Peschanka. Meeting concentration camp prisoners.
-Airport "Pitomnik"

 

City Northern Frontline

-Tractor Plant district./"Mokraya" Mechetka Gorge/Spartanovka/Latoshinka/Rynok-German first penetration to the -Volga river on August 23
-Civilians' Common Graves.
-Orlovka Sandpit/The river gorge

Out-of-town site seeing

 -Gumrak/Airport, Railway Station, 6th Army HQ/
 -Cemetery of Rossoshka/Reconciliation Ensemble
 -WWII Museum of Rossoshka
 -Height 137,5
 -Soldiers' Field Memorial

 -"Red October" Steel factory Museum
 -"Barrikady" Gun Factory, Gully of Death.
-Lyudnikov's Island,138 Rifle Guards dv Command Post/ruins/
-Grain Elevator 
-NKVD Museum
 -Elshanka /Kuporosnaya balka/
-Lysaya Gora (Bald Hill)
-Beketovka (64th Army HQ)/the house where Paulus was first interrogated on January 31,1943/
 

Southern Frontline/Outskirts of Stalingrad

-Tatyanka settlement
-Tsatsa/Barmantsak lakes
-74th km. railway junction
-Chervlenoye settlement/1942 memorial
-Stalingrad Front (Eremenko's) survey position
-Regional Historical Museum

 

Photo tour
Monuments and Memorials:

"Chelyabinsky Kolkhoznik" memorial tank
Memorial to M.Panikakha
Monument to NKVD troops, Civilians, Komsomol/Young Communist League/ members
Memorial to Marshal Zhukov and many more