Highlights of Trans-Siberian Private Tour Russia 2020/2021

Tour overview

Day one

Arrival to Moscow

Moscow is one of the ten largest megacities in the world and the largest city in Europe and Russia. More than 12 million people live here. The city is named after the eponymous river flowing through it.

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Day two

Tour to the Kremlin and the Armoury Chamber

Today you will visit the unique tourist, spiritual and political place in modern Moscow - the Moscow Kremlin, which is the largest medieval fortress in the world and the oldest building in Moscow.

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Day three

Moscow City tour and the Tretyakov Gallery

The 3d day of the tour is dedicated to visiting Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral, GUM. A pleasant end of the day and its highlight will be a visit to the Tretyakov Gallery, where you should definitely see the most famous works of the Russian painting - Malevich's Black Square, Shishkin's Morning in a Pine Forest, Vasnetsov's Heroes, Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan 16 November 1581 by Repin and many others.

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Day four

On Board the train

You will board the midnight train and spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world.

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Day five

On Board the train

You will spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world

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Day six

On Board the train

You will spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world.

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Day seven

On Board the train. Arrival to Irkutsk

You will spend this day on board the train and arrive to Irkutsk in the evening. Your personal driver will meet you at the train station and transfer to a hotel for check in.

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Day eight

Listvyanka Village Tour, Baikal Museum and “Taltsy” Museum

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Day nine

Irkutsk City Tour and visit to the Znamensky Monastery

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Day ten

On Board the train

You will spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world.

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Day eleven

On Board the train

You will spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world.

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Day twelve

On Board the train

You will spend this day on board enjoying fantastic scenery passing by your window and a company of your fellow travelers from all over the world.

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Arrival to Vladivostok. Vladivostok City Tour

Having made a journey of 350 kilometers, you arrive in the coastal city of Vladivostok.

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Departure from Vladivostok

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Arrival to Moscow

Departure from Vladivostok

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Day 14

The route on the map is approximate and presented for nformational purposes only.

Day one

Arrival to Moscow

Your personal driver will meet you in the airport and transfer to a centrally located 4-star hotel for check in.

The rest of the day is your leisure time. You can start discovering Moscow city centre, enjoy the local food in one of the traditional restaurants.

Hotel

Courtyard by Marriott Moscow City Center, Moscow 4*

Day two

Tour to the Kremlin and the Armoury Chamber

After breakfast, you will start your guided tour to the Kremlin, passing its main entrance - the Spassky Gate, which is located opposite to the St. Basil's Cathedral and face the Red Square.

You will also visit the Armory Chamber which collection has begun to form in the 15th century as a private treasure trove of the great Moscow tsars. The basis of the museum collection consists of precious objects made in the Kremlin workshops and received as a gift from the Embassies of foreign countries.

The rest of the day is your leisure time. Enjoy the local cuisine in one of the centrally located restaurants or continue exploring Moscow on your own.

Hotel

Courtyard by Marriott Moscow City Center, Moscow 4*

Meals

Breakfast

Day three

Moscow City tour and the Tretyakov Gallery

After breakfast and check-out from the hotel, local English-speaking guide will meet you at the hotel lobby to start the fascinating tour of Moscow sights. During this day you will visit the Red Square - the main square of the capital of Russia which is located at the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Then you will discover a picturesque St.Basil's Cathedral built in the middle of the 16th century under Tsar Ivan the Terrible order to commemorate the conquest of the Kazan Khanate.

Further your guide will introduce you one of the largest stores in Europe – GUM, which has been operating since 1893.

After lunch (not included) you will explore the Tretyakov Gallery - the world's largest collection of Russian painting, drawing and sculpture which grew out of private collections of the brothers Pavel and Sergey Tretyakov. Currently the gallery features over 180 thousand exhibits.

After visiting the Gallery, you have free time before boarding train to Irkutsk.

Lunch and dinner are not included in the price.

Hotel

Courtyard by Marriott Moscow City Center, Moscow 4*

Meals

Breakfast

Day four

On Board the train

During the first day, you will travel 1,400 kilometers from Moscow to Perm, with several stops, the largest of which are Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and Kirov.

Day five

On Board the train

.During the second day by train, you will travel 1300 kilometers from Perm to Omsk with the main stops in Yekaterinburg and Tyumen.

Day six

On Board the train

During the third day, you will travel 1,600 kilometers from Omsk to Kansk with the major stops in Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk.

Day seven

On Board the train. Arrival to Irkutsk

This day you arrive in the capital of Siberia - the city of Irkutsk. During the fourth day you will travel 830 kilometers by train and make several stops, the main of which are Nizhneudinsk and the city of Zima.

Meals

Breakfast

Day eight

Listvyanka Village Tour, Baikal Museum and “Taltsy” Museum

After breakfast, you will enjoy a guided tour around Listvyanka Village. During the tour, you will visit the Baikal Limnological Museum and Aquarium that houses an interesting display of the unique flora and fauna of the lake.

Then you will take a chair-lift to the nearby viewpoint to take some magnificent panoramic pictures of Baikal, view the Chersky Rock and visit the 19th century wooden St. Nicolas church.

The rest of the tour is dedicated to the exporation of “Taltsy” Museum - an open-air museum of wooden architecture located in Taltsy Village.

The museum retrospectively recreated four historical and cultural zones: Russian, Buryat, Evenki and Tofalar. The funds of the museum "Taltsy" has more than 20 thousand exhibits.

After the tour, you will be transferred to Irkutsk for a check-in to a centrally located hotel and have the rest of the day as your leisure time.

Day nine

Irkutsk City Tour and visit to the Znamensky Monastery

After breakfast and check-out from the hotel, you will start Irkutsk city tour – also known as “Paris of Siberia”.

You will visit Angara embankment, the Monument to Jacob Pokhabov – the founder of the city. Then you will proceed to the Catholic Cathedral, also known as the Polish Roman Church.

Further you will move to the one of the oldest monasteries in Siberia - Znamensky Monastery - founded in 1689.

The rest of the tour is dedicated to the Block 130. The Block 130, also known as Irkutskaya Sloboda, is a historical zone with many wooden houses constructed in the 18th century.

After the tour, you will have several hours as your leisure time. Then you will be transferred to the train station to board an evening train to Vladivostok.

Day ten

On Board the train

Within 24 hours, you will travel 1200 kilometers from Irkutsk to the Karymskaya train station with the main stops in Ulan-Ude and Chita.

Day eleven

On Board the train

This day you will make a journey of 1000 kilometers with the longest stops in the cities of Chernysh, Pavlov and Magdagachi.

Day twelve

On Board the train

This day, another 1,400 kilometers of landscape awaits you outside the window with the main stops in Belogorsk and Khabarovsk.

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Arrival to Vladivostok. Vladivostok City Tour

This morning you will arrive in Vladivostok and start your meeting with the city from the railway station, which building is more than 100 years old. Your driver will meet you at the train station and transfer to a centrally located hotel for a check in. After breakfast and 2-hours rest, your guide will meet you in the lobby to start a fascinating tour around the most significant city’s sights.

You will drive across the Russky and Golden bridges and visit the Russky Island with its glorious and attractive bays. You will also visit Primorsky Aquarim located on the island and meet the inhabitants of the Russian water zones.

Further you will go back to Vladivostok and visit the oldest street in the city “Svetlanskaya”, Tsarevich Embankment and Golden Horn Bay. The highlight of this day is a visit to the Memorial Submarine Museum S56.

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Departure from Vladivostok

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Tickets & Transfers

Airport transfers
Transfers according to the itinerary
2nd class coupe train tickets from Moscow to Irkutsk, from Irkutsk to Vladivostok
Entrance to the sights according to the itinerary in Moscow - the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Kremlin, the Armoury Chamber, St.Basil's Cathedral
Entrance to the sights according to the itinerary in Irkutsk, Listvyanka and Vladivostok

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