On June, 7 one-day tours will be organized for the participants of the Conference. You may choose one of the tours and register for it on our web site. It is necessary to confirm your choice on June, 6 during your registration at the Conference. Due to the Conference budget reduction some of the excursions will be organized on a charged basis. Please be careful while choosing the tour!
Please note, that you should register individually, one time and choose only one tour. If you would like to alter your choice, please be so kind to inform Marina Zaluzhskaya, person responsible for the excursions, using the following e-mail address: cit2@gpntb.ru.
Number of people who can take part in each tour is restricted. When an excursion group has been formed for a tour, registration for this tour will be closed.
Tour 1 Sevastopol
Route: Sudak – Simferopol – Sevastopol – Simferopol – Sudak
Departure: 7.00
Duration: 14 hours
Excursion type: coach tour
Excursion price: 260 UAH,
admission fees included:
Chersonese: 40 UAH
Panorama museum: 40 UAH
The World War II Hero City of Sevastopol is a magnificent city of military honour, founded in 1783 on the shores of the Akhtiarskaya Bay. Your acquaintance with the city will begin with the visit to the monument of ancient and medieval Crimean history – “Chersonese Tavrichesky” National Nature Reserve, included by UNESCO in the list of 100 most crucial landmarks of the world culture. You will see the remains of the city which had existed for more than two thousand years, ruins of the defence walls, dwellings, public places, as well as cellars, wells, country estates, an ancient theatre, basilicas, the place where prince Vladimir was baptised, Vladimirsky (St. Vladimir’s) cathedral.
You will see such marks of the heroic events of the Crimean war, as Historical Boulevard, Malakhov Kurgan (barrow) and the world-known Panorama Museum “Sevastopol Defence 1854-1855” – a unique work of Russian battle painting. You will also visit Grafskaya (Count) Pier, Admiral Nakhimov Square and Primorsky (Marine) Boulevard, where the famous Sunken Ships Monument is situated. Sevastopol’s rich culture will show you its most interesting pages during the tour.
Tour 2 Palaces and Parks of the Southern Coast
(Park of “Ayvazovskoye” Health Center in Partenit, Massandra Palace, Yalta)
Route: Sudak – Rybachye – Alushta – Partenit – Massandra Palace – Yalta – Alushta – Rybachye – Sudak
Departure: 7.30
Duration: 14 hours
Free time in Yalta: 2 hours
Excursion type: coach tour
Excursion price: 260 UAH
admission fees included:
Park of “Aivasovskoye” Health Center in Partenit: 40 UAH
Massandra Palace: 40 UAH
Yalta, small cableway “Darsan – Embankment”: 30 UAH
We invite you to visit the park, which is a monument of garden art. It is situated in “Aivazovskoye” Health Center in the Partenit Valley between Ayu-Dag and Cape Plaka. In the park there are over 7000 conifers and 200 exotic plants, and its real gem is a grove of 200-year-old olive trees. You will see ruins of an ancient Greek castle, pithoi, amphoras, a stream with a whole system of natural reservoirs, a rotunda, a pergola, walls of a medieval fortress, a fountain, arches, a waterfall; Italian, Japanese, Mexican landscape gardens, living statues and many other picturesque fragments of the park.
The next stage of the tour is the visit to one of the best architectural sites of the Crimean Southern Coast – Massandra Palace of the Emperor Alexander III. Built in the 19th century in the style of Louis XIII castles according to the project by M.E. Mesmakher, the palace is situated in a secluded place near the mountain range and is surrounded with a park. It will astonish you not only with its unique architecture and originality of its fine interior design, but also with its harmony with the surrounding nature. Former governmental residence, now it is an art and architecture museum with a permanent exhibition “Family of Alexander III”.
We also invite you to Yalta – capital of the Crimean Southern Coast. We suggest that you descend to Yalta embankment by the cableway from Darsan hill, the altitude of which is 110 m. above sea level. You will enjoy the view on the city and its outskirts from the top of the hill.
Discover marvellous Crimean parks and palaces!
Tour 3 On Novy Svet Secret Paths
(Karaul-Oba, Golitsyn’s Trail)
Route: Sudak – Veseloye – Novy Svet – Sudak
Departure: 8.00
Duration: 7 hours
Excursion type: coach and walking tour
Novy Svet secret paths await sturdy, inquisitive tourists, longing to ascend the Crimean mountains, to triumph over themselves and to see REAL Crimean nature. Karaul-Oba Mountain protects Novy Svet bays and juniper groves on the west. On the western ridge of Karaul-Oba, over 70-meter-high precipice you will see the remains of walls and dwellings of an ancient fortress, built by Bosporus tsar Asandre.
Having walked the winding stairs cut in the mountain by taures over 2000 years ago, you will discover one of Novy Svet miracles: “Adam’s bed” gorge. This narrow cleft is overhung with ivy, it is cool there even on a hot day as the sun does not reach in there. A short ascent of a stony slope leads us to a rocky terrace 340 m. above the sea-level, which is the top of Karaul-Oba Mountain. It is often so windy there that you involuntarily lean to the only pine tree on the top. From Karaul-Oba you can enjoy a broad view: from Meganom Cape to Medved (Bear) Mountain, blue in the haze of a hot day. You can see Novy Svet amphitheatre, Capchik and Coba-Kaya Capes and three bays named according to the colour of their water: Blue, Dark Blue and Green spread before your eyes.
On descending the mountain you will find yourself on the famous Tsar’s Beach with crystal-clear transparent blue water. Skirting coastal capes and hanging over the Black Sea, Golitsyn’s Trail will lead you through Skvoznoy (Open-ended) and Estradny (Variety) grottos to Novy Svet settlement.
Tour 4 Feodosia
Route: Sudak – Feodosia – Sudak
Departure: 9.00
Duration: 7 hours
Free time in Feodosia: 1 hour
Excursion type: coach tour
Admission fees:
Ayvazovsky National Picture Gallery – 40 UAH
Grin Literary and Memorial Museum – 20 UAH
Feodosia is one of the most ancient cities in Europe, which was thriving at the time when there was yet no London, no Paris, no Kiev and no Moscow. In the 6th century B.C. merchants-seafarers from the Ionic city of Miletus founded a settlement and named it “Feodosia” – “Given by God”. Now it is the administrative, industrial and resort centre of the South-Eastern Crimea, a large commercial port, a city with 25-century-old history and rich cultural traditions.
Feodosia is well worth visiting, as there you can learn about the frescoes by the great icon painter Theophanes the Greek, covering the walls of the ancient St. Stefan temple, about the famous Roxolana having been traded, about the Empress Catherine the Great having visited the place after the conquest of the Crimea, about the Feodosian lumper Ivan Poddubny having become the World Wrestling Champion and about lots of other interesting things.
We invite you to walk the ancient city streets and to have a look at the main places of interest: the Genovese Constantine Tower (14th century), Ayvazovsky Fountain, Mufty-Jami Mosque (Turkish architectural monument of the 17th century), St. Sarkis Armenian Temple (14th century), in the churchyard of which there is the tomb of Feodosia’s honorary citizen – I.K. Ayvazovsky.
Among the attractions of the city are its museums with their unique collections. You will visit the Ayvazovsky National Picture Gallery, having the largest collection of paintings by the famous marine painter, whose works are exhibited in a lot of world museums. Among the holdings of the Gallery there are paintings by M.A. Voloshin, K.E. Bogaevsky, L.F. Lagorio, A.I. Kuindzhi and other artists. Visitors to the Grin Literary and Memorial Museum will make a tour around the imaginary country “Grinland”, known by the books written by this great romantic.
Tour 5 Novy Svet – St. Anastasia’s Spring – Wine Tasting at “Golitsyn’s House-museum of Winemaking and Winegrowing”
Route: Sudak – Novy Svet – Sudak
Departure: 9.00
Duration: 5 hours
Excursion type: coach and walking tour
Admission fees:
Tasting – 60 UAH
We invite you to ascend to St. Anastasia’s Spring. The route goes along an ancient road, which used to link Sudak and Novy Svet. In some places great walls fortifying the picturesque road can still be seen, and the road leads over an old bridge over a shallow ravine. St. Anastasia’s Spring got its name due to a Orthodox Christian monastery that was situated not far from it in the Middle Ages. At the beginning of the 20th century a 3200-meter sluice was made, linking Novy Svet to the spring.
The tour will end by tasting famous sparkling wines in the house of the father of Russian sparkling wine making – Golitsyn. Enjoy marvellous nature beauty spots together with the taste of the most noble and romantic drink – Novy Svet Champagne – a true combination of pleasant and useful!
