Arrival to Krasnoyarsk railway station.
The day begins with Krasnoyarsk city tour visiting of all basic sights: the monument to Andrey Dubensky, the founder of the city, where you can enjoy a breathtaking view; Karaulnaya Hill where Paraskeva Pjatnitsa chapel (1855) is located; Annunciation temple, Intercession cathedral and Catholic church in the program. During the excursion you’ll see Mira Avenue, Drama Theatre, Opera and Ballet House, Yenisei quay. The bus stops at an Egypt building of Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum where we will spend 2 next hours. This Museum located in the very city center, on the quay, it is considered to be the best Russian provincial Regional Ethnographic Museum (Siberian indigenous people, first Russians in Siberia, Siberian merchants, Tunguska explosion, Orthodox icons, items from Soviet Russia).
After a short rest in a city restaurant you’ll go to Krasnoyarsk surroundings. This is an excursion for those who want to see all the best sights of our city in one time. You will have a golden opportunity to go by the picturesque forest road to Krasnoyarsk Hydro Power Station built in 1972, then visit an observation place Tsar-Fish, where you can enjoy picturesque scenes of the city and the Yenisei river. Our guides will not stop telling you interesting legends about a powerful king Yenisei and his daughters, because a lot of different peoples have inhabited the region and they all have created their own legends and stories about splendid Yenisei. According to the legends of primordial inhabitants of the Yenisei region, the mainriver of Siberia – Yenisei - is a reflection of the Milky Way to the ground. Being one of the longest rivers not only in Russia but in the world (4092 km. length), it is longer than a distance from London to Moscow.
Whoever comes to Krasnoyarsk, either Russians or foreigners, everybody is impressed by the powerful Yenisei and the boundless taiga, near the very city. The group enjoys the majestic river, on the banks of which ancient Siberian villages and unique natural monuments are located.
The way ends in Divnogorsk which was just the camp of the builders of the Hydro Power station in 1957. It took its name after the mountains situated around the city.
Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station takes the second place among all hydroelectric power stations in Russia. Its power is 6000 megawatt. The new technology of high concrete dams' construction, temperature regulation of a dam, blocking a big river during severe winter and many other innovations of Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station allowed to build a safe construction which has become the energetic heart of Siberia.
Coming back to Krasnoyarsk.
09:00 meeting at the railway station
09:30 Krasnoyarsk city tour
12:30 excursion in the Regional Museum
14:00 lunch in a restaurant
15:00 way to Divnogorsk town
16:00 observation point Tsar-Fish
17:00 arrival to Divnogorsk, excursion to Krasnoyarsk hydro electric power station – outside sightseeing
19:00 return to Krasnoyarsk, end of the program
Time may be changed according to your arrival/departure time
Hotel accommodation is not included
Lunch in a restaurant
about 100 km by car
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