Day: March 31, 2014
-
Volgograd
EN Going up the Don, the ship crosses the Rostov Region boundary and goes on cruising in the neighbour Volgograd region till the city of Volgograd (former Stalingrad). Volgograd today is a big industrial, administrative, cultural and educational centre. Moreover, Volgograd is a monument city. Buildings of tsarist Russia, memorials of historic events, memorial places…
-
Romanovskaya. Volgodonsk
EN Romanovskaya’stanitsa is located just in several kilometres from Volgodonsk, an important industrial town emerging at the beginning of the 1950s due to construction of the Tsimlyansky waterworks facility. Here the Don Steppe nature is to admire, and tourists will also take part in an old wedding rite “Smotriny” (Bride-show, when bridegroom’s relatives come to…
-
Konstantinovsk
EN Many Rostov Region tourist routes pass through the Konstantinovsky Area. Local attractions are not only historic and cultural monuments, but also picturesque landscapes, Don Cossack hospitality and traditions which the Russians know from the “Gipsy” movie which was shot here in the 1 980s, after the novel of the same title by a well-known…
-
Starocherkassk
EN The tour program offered includes a walking tour in stanitsa Starocherkasskaya, one of the oldest Don stanitsas (Cossack villages), which was the Don Cossack capital in the XVII-XIX centuries. Tourists will visit Starocherkassky historic and architectural museum-reserve, the only XVIII-XX Century architecture ensemble in the South of Russia which remained intact; the museum was…
-
Taganrog
EN Taganrog is a port-town, fortress-town founded by Peter the Great in 1 898. Today Taganrog is a big industrial, scientific, cultural and tourist centre of the Rostov Region, and an open-air museum as well. A special bus tour has been arranged for the cruise people: the tourists will stroll in the historic and architectural…