City tour Yekaterinburg

Tour Duration: 3 hours
Season: all the year round
Vehicles: by bus or car
You’ll be taken to the City Pond, Prospect Lenina, the Hill of Ascension and its ancient church founded in 1792, the Historic Square, the Dam, monument of founders of the city – Tatischev and Gennin, Peter’s Court, the Church of Blood at the Romanov Death Site, the Chapel of St. Elizabeth, the Square of the Soviet Army, the Square of the 1905 Revolution. Visit one museum.

Special City Tour Yekaterinburg: Back in the USSR

Tour Duration: 3 hours
Season: all the year round
Vehicles: on foot

Do you want to be back in the USSR! It is possible and you don’t need the time machine for this. Have a city tour of Yekaterinburg in Soviet Style.

You will see a symbol of Soviet times, the residence of KGB, Gorodok Chekistov (CheKa officers’ cantonment), designed in the form of a Soviet symbol, a sickle and a hammer. Then you will make your way to the District Officers’ House, it was built in ‘Stalin Empire’ style on the Russian Army Square. You will see the open air museum of defence technology and the Afghanistan War Memorial. After this sightseeing tour, you may want more to taste Soviet life, the guide will propose you to eat in the restaurant ‘USSR’ (lunch is not included in price).

Trip to the border Europe and Asia obelisk

Tour Duration: 3 hours
Season: all year around
Attractions: The Ural Mountains are regarded as the border between Europe and Asia. To the west of the Urals lies European Russia, the cradle of the Russian culture and to the east lies the vast land of Siberia. You will visit the obelisk between Europe and Asia. You can put one foot in Europe and another one in Asia and take some unique photographs. On the way you will stop at the memorial complex, which was set up in 1995 in honour of the victims of Stalin’s repression.

The Romanov’s dynasty in the Urals (Ganina’s Pit) tour

Tour Duration: 3 hours
Season: all year around
Distance: 15 km from Yekaterinburg
For the whole world, Yekaterinburg is the location where the last Russian Emperor Nickolay II and his family, savagely lost their lives. This tour shows you the most dramatic period of Russian history, the time of the Revolution. The czar’s family was executed in the basement of Ipatiev house on the night 16-17th of July in 1918. Just after the well-known midnight tragedy the corpses were transported out of the city and put in an open mine (about 10 meters deep), called Ganina’s Pit or Ganina Yama. Hand grenades were thrown down the mine shaft by their executioners. Russian Orthodox Church insists on the version, that the bodies were taken out of the mine, dissected and burnt into ash. There is the monastery there founded in 2000 after the visit of Patriarch Alexij II – the Head of Russian Orthodox Church. The church in the Names of Saint Newly Martyrs and five wooden churches have been built in honour of different Russian Saints on the place where the remains of the Romanov’s were burnt. The churches were built with the local timber without the aid of any nails.

The Europe – Asia obelisk + Romanov’s Monastery (Ganina’s Pit) tour

Duration: 5 hours
Season: all year around
Attraction: This is a combination of both above tours in Yekaterinburg: The Europe Asia border and Romanov’s Monastery Ganina’s Pit for people who are limited on time.

City package Yekaterinburg 3 days/2 nights

• Transfers upon arrival and departure (from airport or train station)
• City tour Romanovs in Yekaterinburg by car
• trip to Ganina Yama – secret grave of Nikolaj the II and his family
• Accommodation in chosen hotel in double room incl. breakfast