In the summer, many only dream about how to get out of town. Want to be in the shade of trees, in fresh water, alone with nature. To do this, there are many options. Someone goes into the forest hikes, others are going to conquer the mountain tops, many choose to picnics. We want to offer another great way to resist the call of nature and leave the heavy heat and bustle of city life. This is the river cruises, a wonderful pastime that allows you to enjoy the spectacular scenery of pristine nature, feel the richness and vastness of our country and see the most interesting monuments of Russian culture.
There is quite many different routes and directions, which differ in length, saturation, and comfort. We consider the most interesting of them.
Travel on the Moscow - St. Petersburg - Moscow will allow you to discover the current repository of national culture, the name of which - the Russian North. Your imagination will be impressed by the majestic northern monasteries and the golden domes of the churches. Steam-ship will pass through the expanses of the largest lakes in Europe - Ladoga and Onega. The real jewels of the Russian North are the islands of Valaam and Kizhi: it is not surprising that every year here tends more and more travelers. The culmination of navigation will visit the northern capital - St. Petersburg, the city has a rich cultural and historical heritage.
Russian North surprises and fascinates. Unhurried boat trip provides an opportunity to fully experience the beauty of not striking nature of the north, which again and again attracts the travelers.
One of the most popular routes - Cruise Moscow - Astrakhan - Moscow, leading to Lower Volga. The first ship will be a parking lot one of the most fabulous cities in the Upper Volga - Uglich, where you'll be shown the Kremlin, the Church of Demetrius "on Blood» (XVII cent.) Built on the spot death of the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, and other ancient monuments. You will also visit Kostroma, with its Ipatyevsky monastery - the cradle of the Romanov, where the first Russian tsar dynasty was married to the kingdom; see Nizhny Novgorod and its majestic Kremlin, visit the Tatarstan capital Kazan, with its ancient monuments.
; After a stop in Samara and Volgograd, with a visit to the memorial of the mother country, you will find yourself in Astrakhan, where you can see the Kremlin, Assumption and Holy Trinity cathedrals (XVII cent.) Cyril chapel (XVII cent.) Indian Compound and will pass on the central part of the city, where luxurious mansions have survived, banks, church eastern merchants.
On the way back you will get acquainted with the Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Cheboksary. Finally you take a tour of Yaroslavl, an ancient city with numerous temples and museums before returning to the North River station of the capital. This cruise ships make "Felix Dzerzhinsky", "Alexander Radishchev", "Nizhny Novgorod", "Zosimus checkers" and its minimum value of 35 thousand rubles.
One of the more saturated is the route Moscow - Perm, passing on Volga and Kama rivers. Kama nor beauty, nor in full-flowing almost equal to the Volga. Beginning in the forests of Udmurtia, describing a huge loop through two thousand miles, it empties into the Volga Kuibyshev Reservoir, being the fifth-longest river of the European continent.
Ship enters the Kama in the area below Kazan, so tourists, inter alia, a spectacular world of the Upper quiet towns. They measured the provincial life in the neighborhood with each other live the great Russian shrines and small private museums. Church of Dmitry "on the Blood in Uglich and museums of Russian vodka and boots in Myshkin, the cradle of the Romanov - Ipatyevsky Monastery in Kostroma, and the museum of musical instruments in Yaroslavl. And then - a place of pilgrimage for Russian artists Ples, cozy Kineshma and, finally, a former merchant capital of Russia - Nizhny Novgorod, the number of sites is comparable with Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Next followed by three adjacent to each other city: Nizhnekamsk, with its large petrochemical plant, Naberezhnye Chelny, the famous factory Kamaz and Yelabuga, which is called the "pearl of the Kama. This city is rich and history and views from the high right bank of the Kama. Not for nothing is created one of the best masters of landscape Shishkin.
The capital of the Western Urals city of Perm meets tourists domed churches on the Kama and the silhouettes of giant cranes cargo port simultaneously. So it is: a rich history of the region is intertwined with the grim history of the private industrial city. Having a unique hydraulic structure - shestikamerny Perm gateway, the ship enters the Kama Reservoir. In some places the width of the river reaches 10-12 miles - it's Kama sea. Do not look for signs of civilization here, taiga along the banks remained silent.
Tour cost depends on the duration of the cruise and the number of visited cities, and starts with 15 thousand rubles.
As you can see, the proposed program extremely busy and varied and allow a fairly detailed review of the cultural heritage and nature of the Russian provinces. Therefore, it may not necessarily spend a summer vacation for a long and tiring flights to distant countries when our own camp store as many treasures that can be opened with the board a river steamer.

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