Arrival to Krasnoyarsk railway station, transfer, check-in in a hotel*.

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.

We invite our guests to 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).

Visiting souvenir shops.

In the continuation of the excursion tourists will visit Surikov’s house-museum – wooden house of the beginning of the century, keeping all the features of that period (furniture, design, utensils, service buildings). At the end of 19^th century a young boy Vasia Surikov left this house to win world-wide glory of one of the most prolific painter of that period.

Returning to the hotel, rest. Dinner independent. Free time.

11:00 Krasnoyarsk city tour
13:00 lunch in a restaurant
14:00 excursion in the Regional Museum
16:00 excursion in Surikov’s house-museum
18:00 coming back to the hotel

The second day will be devoted to the Krasnoyarsk surroundings. The tourist-bus goes along the forest road to Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station (outside sightseeing), the second one in Russia. Visiting of observation place Tsar Fish. According to the legends of primordial inhabitants of the Yenisei region, the main river of Siberia – Yenisei river - 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.

A typical Siberian village Ovsyanka is the next point of the excursion. It is a motherland of a famous Russian writer Viktor Astafiev. You will visit a museum of Astafiev’s grandmother, house-museum of the writer, you will learn about his life and works. Then you will visit a local church and go down to the riverside.

In the end of this excursion you will visit to the Krasnoyarsk Hydro Power Station (outside sightseeing), the second one inRussia. 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.

The next point of the program is visit to the natural reserve Stolby (7 km by bus up to the point).

Short stroll to the forest hut and you are in the heart of the reserve. Picnic, walking around the central group of rocks (about 2-3 km). According to the results of the TV survey managed in 1980^th, the reserve was considered to be “the 8^th Wonders of the World”, more exciting than such natural and architectural masterpieces as Kizhi, Baikal Lake, Golden Ring and Suzdal’s palace. It was founded in 1925 and now it is the main sight of Krasnoyarsk – the great natural stone work.

Returning to the city, dinner by a request.

10:00 trip to Divnogorsk, visiting Tsar Fish observation point
11:30 visiting museum in Ovsyanka village
13:00 arriving to Divnogorsk, excursion to the Krasnoyarsk Hydro power station
14:30 arriving to a forest hut in the natural reserve Stolby, picnic
15:30-18:30 hiking around rocks escorted by an experienced guide
20:00 arrival back to the city

Time may be changed according to your arrival/departure time.