Volgograd: where to go to relax from the city for the weekend? Top attractions
You came to Volgograd, and have already seen all the city sights, and now you want to plan a trip to the sights near the city?
Or do you live in Volgograd and want to go on vacation for a few days? So that it is easy to reach and interesting to travel to the whole family?
We have gathered top attractions, travel routes: where residents can govolgogradAnd vacation tourists?
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Alexander Graben
Alexander Graben - a geological monument of nature, a failure in the south of the Volga hills, occupies an area of 280 hectares. How the Geological Structure of Graben Originated About 30 Million Years
Alexander Graben is located 100 km north of Volgograd, drive 1.5 - 2 hours.
An amazing place, here you can meet the dawn and the sunset, and just swim and even with a tent to spend the night, fishing. In spring, the steppes are covered with tulips.
You can have a small picnic on a beautiful beach, the sand is white and large as the sea.
By car you can drive right up to the breakaway and go down either immediately to the beach, or go to the hill that leads to the robenu (red rock).
Pallasovka
Pallasovka is a small district center 283 km from Volgograd. On the way to Pallasovka you can drive to the village of Romashki (here are bred sheep-merinos of the Volgograd breed).
In Pallasovka you can see the embankment of the Bulbin River with houses for ducks and the only monument in Russia to the scientist Peter Simon Pallas on the station square (the city was named after the German scientist).
Near Pallasovka there are picturesque sights: Elton Reserve and Lake Elton, Mount Ulagan.
There is a mysterious legend about Khan Mamai, who hid his treasures in Lake Elton, and sometimes climbed Mount Ulu Khan to watch for the treasure. The water dissolved the Mongolian treasury, and so in the evening the lake shimmers with gold and silver. Khan did not take away his great treasures, but this does not prevent him and his loyal soldiers from defending Elton - Altyn-Nur ("Golden Bottom") - from the encroachments of strangers even centuries after his death.
Tourists travel to Lake Elton to feel the healing properties of its curative mud and brine.
Tzagan Aman village
The village of Tsagan Aman is translated from the Kalmyk language - "white gate" is the only settlement in Kalmykia with access to the banks of the Volga. The village is about 300 km from Elista, 207 km from Volgograd.
The Volga coast here is very beautiful, you can admire the beauty for many hours, and the local cuisine is tasty and fragrant. If you have never tried mahan sheligayan soup (beef (or lamb), onions, greens, potatoes), Kalmyk dumplings (bereks) and salted tea with the addition of milk and pepper.
Attractions of Tzagan Aman:
- monument to Ayuk-Khan - the first Kalmyk khan (under him, the Kalmyk kingdom reached its highest prosperity).
- Khurul with prayer drums is one of the religious attractions of all Kalmykia.
Pyatimorsk
The village of Pyatimorsk is 67 km from Volgograd.
In the Park of the History of the State of Russia there are many sculptures and posters telling about different periods of the history of our country and the biography of outstanding people, the monument “Connection of Fronts”.
What to do? There are beautiful walking paths, a lot of greenery, there are arbors and benches for relaxation, there is a beach where you can swim.
Together with children, you can walk along the alley of children's fairy tales, - see the famous hare and wolf from the cartoon "Well, wait!", Cheburashka's favorite from the cartoon of the same name and the postman Pechkin from "Prostokvashino".
Serafimovich
Serafimovich is a colorful, bright city of the Volgograd region, it is called the “capital of the Don” (founded in 1589, the former name of the village Ust-Medveditskaya).
What can I do? Walk, considering the architecture of cozy streets, go to the Cossack Museum and the House-Museum of the writer Alexander Serafimovich (the city was named in memory of the writer).
See what? The sights of Serafimovich are local churches. The main attraction is the Ust-Medveditsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery with 33 domes on the banks of the Don (founded in 1670) and the monastery caves. The main shrine of the underground passages is a stone slab on which the imprints of the abbess Arsenyya are left. According to legend, the abbess Arsenya prayed on him, and the Mother of God appeared to her. The nuns of the monastery insist that the imprints of the hands and feet left on the stone by the Virgin.
Thousands of pilgrims come to the small town to also see the snow-white Intercession Church with a beautiful green dome and the Resurrection Church in white and gray, the first stone building in the city.
Shcherbakov Park
Shcherbakov Park is 234 km from Volgograd, here, on an area of 35 thousand hectares there is a forest, a mountain river, an endless steppe, unusual caves.
Be sure to see the columns - unusual rocks on the banks of the Volga, which are similar to the towers of the castle of the Middle Ages.
Especially attracts tourists Shcherbakovskaya beam, where the river of the same name flows. Several streams flowing from steep slopes, like waterfalls. These lands for the amazing landscape received the popular name "Volga Switzerland".
How to get to Shcherbakovo Park? The road by car will take about three and a half hours through Kamyshin to the village of Upper Dobrinka. An alternative option is on a minibus from Volgograd to Kamyshin, and then you need to call a taxi.
Text: personalguide
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