Stepanenko Natalia Nikolaevna

My name is Natalia Stepanenko, certified guide – included in the unified federal register of guides (guides) and guides-interpreters of the Russian Federation. She conducted excursions at the International Exhibition-Forum “Russia” in Moscow. Member of the Don Tour Guides Club. In tourism all my life. Winner of the Grand Prix and three times winner of the All-Russian professional tourist award “Route of the Year” and “Routes of Russia”, diploma of the I degree in the Regional Tour Guides Competition. For five years she was a member of the jury of the Regional Professional Competition "Tour Industry Leaders" in the nominations "Best Tour Guide", "Best Tour". Practitioner and at the same time teacher - twelve years engaged in training guides-guides of the Rostov region. Most of the graduates I trained successfully work as guides and are present on this portal.
I like to fall in love with my tourists in Rostov-on-Don and impress not only the Don expanses, but also the rich history! All the main excursions in Rostov and Rostov region, both classical and thematic author, are interactive. Excursions on foot and transport - how convenient for you.

All routes have been repeatedly honed and tested in practice. I will be glad if you turn to me and are ready to share your knowledge and love for your native land!

1. Walking through Rostov
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 hours
7000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

Author's walks-excursions with different options of the route through the historical center of the city. Take a walk along the main street of the city of Bolshaya Sadovaya with its architectural diversity; along the quiet, cozy Pushkin Street; go down to the underground passages and enjoy the beauty of mosaic panels; see monuments associated with various historical events. During the tour, the originality of the multifaceted, multifaceted Rostov, which managed to preserve its originality and special color, opens.

Overview City

2. His name is Rostov-on-Don.
Rostov-on-Don transport 3 hours
7000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

For 3 hours of excursion we will pass through the main streets of the city, visit its ceremonial squares, on the two embankments of the Don River, in the Armenian city that has gone down in history - Nakhchivan-on-Don; in the Old Bazaar, the air of which is filled with the aromas of Don abundance. Admire the ancient mansions, the creators of which were famous metropolitan architects. We will see interesting and unusual monuments. We will hear the names of talented Rostov residents who glorified the city. Overview City

3. With curiosity about the Great Garden
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 hours
7000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

"Our Great Garden will do honor to any European city" - so boasted in the old days Rostov merchants. In buildings, mansions, monuments of the central street - the chronicle of Rostov-on-Don.

Overview City

4. Legends, secrets, were, were not Pushkinskaya street
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 – 2.5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

From Ostrovsky Lane at the intersection with Pushkinskaya Street to Voroshilovsky Prospect.

Author's excursion along the pedestrian boulevard of Pushkinskaya Street - one of the most beautiful streets in the center of Rostov and at the same time quite quiet and cozy. Old houses hold many secrets. Each mystery is connected with the life of famous Rostov residents and ordinary citizens. In which house did the most august persons stay? What magnificent palace house did a lawyer get for winning a case? Where and who treated the teeth Anton Chekhov? How was the mansion brought from Italy to Rostov? What is hidden behind the facades of ancient mansions, what are the walls of buildings and monuments silent about, what mysteries is the silence of a cozy pedestrian boulevard? Legends, secrets, there were, never were, interesting, unexpected events and cases will tell Pushkin Street.

Thematic Historical Urban

5. Unboring and amazing stories of Pushkinskaya Street
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 – 2.5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

From Theatre Prospect of the intersection with Pushkinskaya Street to Voroshilovsky Prospect.

Excursion-walk on another part of the pedestrian boulevard of Pushkinskaya Street. Old houses, "Kvartal-garden", modern buildings, monuments of Pushkinskaya street - a reflection of the life of Rostov in various historical times. What is hidden behind the facades of ancient mansions, what are the walls of buildings and monuments silent about, what mysteries is the silence of a cozy pedestrian boulevard? The answers to these questions, step by step walking along the boulevard, you will hear on excursions and you will be able to feel the special charm of this street.

Thematic Historical Urban

6. Adventurers of Old Rostov
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 hours
8000 R for an individual tour for a group of up to 8 people

Rostov in the nineteenth century grew rapidly and became rich. In pursuit of luck with one ruble in his pocket came to the city enterprising people, including fraudsters of all possible shops. Tales about the dexterity, audacity and charm of Rostov adventurers still live in Rostov, just like such definitions of Rostov: “Russian Chicago!” and “Rostov-Pope”. Excursion about inventive, resourceful usurers, detectives, gentlemen of luck, noble inhabitants, adventurers. Passes through the most interesting old district of the city with its colorful courtyards and courtyards, which have several passages.

Thematic Historical Urban

7. Where did the life of Rostov come from?
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 hours
7000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

Author's tour of the historical coastal part of the city - the embankment, which runs on the right side of the Don River. An excursion begins on the embankment in the area of Khalturinsky Lane, in the park, near the monument in honor of the foundation of the Temernitsky customs, from which the history of Rostov-on-Don takes its official beginning. During a walk along the beautiful, cozy embankment with its sculptures, monuments, legendary old buildings "Paramonic warehouses", we will understand what this land was so attractive and who created Rostov, which has now become a large, modern city.

Thematic Historical and Local History City

The beginning of the tour: Monument to Temernitsk customs on the street Beregova opposite the house No. 15.

8. The Origins of Rostov
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 3-3.5 hours
Price on request for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

Author's fascinating, informative interactive tour-walk on the right bank embankment. With quests. You will learn the main origins that gave the development of R-on-Don. It begins on the site near the sculptural composition “Rich Well” on the Bogatyanovsky descent. The memorable places of the embankment will allow you to “see” the whole history of Rostov-on-Don from the bank of the Don, as well as to get acquainted in more detail with the biography of famous people who glorified the Don region. Great and powerful were the original vital forces that gave birth to Rostov-on-Don, but the main source of development of the city are its creative inhabitants, Rostov-Rostovites.

Along the route, quests are held and all of them differ from each other in semantic load and mechanism: from non-trivial riddles to sports orienteering called Ancient Scrolls.
The excursion route is the winner of the All-Russian tourist award "Route of the Year" in 2014 in the nomination "Best cultural and educational tourist route".
Thematic Local History Interactive City

9. Old merchant Rostov
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 10 people

In the old days, Rostov was called the “merchant city”, since Rostov lived in trade, breathed it. The merchant was here "both king and god." About merchants, as well as construction contractors, industrialists, small merchants, well-known, little-known and completely unknown citizens who had energy, business acumen, trade sense and the desire to change not only their lives, but also the whole city for the better will be discussed on excursions. An excursion begins on the Cathedral Square near the monument to St. Dimitri of Rostov. Walking through the old Rostov quarters, we will see family merchant houses, preserved colorful Rostov courtyards, apartment houses, religious buildings of various religions and confessions of multinational and non-conflict Rostov.

Thematic Historical Urban

10. Rostov's Golden Ball
Rostov-on-Don transport 3 hours
Price on request, for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

The author’s tour tells about football and about those who love the number one sport, gives it intelligence, strength and health. He meets the author of the “golden goal”, Rostov citizen Viktor Monday, who brought one of the most important victories in the history of domestic football – victory in the final of the European Cup in 1960 – until now the only team won by our country of the European Championship. The concept and the key idea of the tour: showing football through personalities. Did you know that the first female arbitrator in our country is a Rostov citizen? Hear curiosities from the lives of footballers, coaches, administrators and fans. An interactive part is integrated into the route. The excursion route is the winner of the All-Russian professional award “Routes of Russia” in 2018 in the nomination “Excursion Route” and the holder of the diploma of the Grand Prix of the All-Russian tourist award “Route of the Year” in 2018 in the nomination “The best route dedicated to the World Cup in football”.

Thematic Historical Interactive Urban

11. Rostov-on-Don - the city of military glory
Rostov-on-Don transport 3 hours
Price on request, for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

This tour is a tribute to the heroism, fortitude and courage of the defenders of the city. What events of the initial period of the war occurred in Rostov and inspired Alexander Tvardovsky to write such verses: "And the glory of the first blow - Rostov forever behind you"? Excursion about the difficult military fate of Rostov-on-Don, how twice the city was occupied by German troops, and four times the Don capital became the arena of fierce battles. Visiting memorial complexes related to the events of the Great Patriotic War.

Thematic Military and Historical City

12. Mius-front – the frontier of military valor

Rostov-on-Don – People’s military-historical museum complex of the Great Patriotic War “Sambek Heights” by transport 6 hours
Price on request, for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

The history of the Great Patriotic War, despite the past decades, continues to preserve numerous “white spots”. This is unfair to the memory of the soldiers and commanders who died defending our homeland from a powerful and dangerous enemy.
The excursion route runs along the city of Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog highway. During the tour, we will consider the fighting that took place in Rostov-on-Don and on the Mius Front line from autumn 1941 to August 1943. At the end of November 1941, the 1st Panzer Army of the Wehrmacht was forced to leave the “gates of the Caucasus” a week after their capture. However, the further offensive of the Soviet troops stopped at the approaches to Taganrog, to which they were only eight kilometers away. Here grew a powerful German defensive line, called the Mius Front after the name of the Mius River. Hitler called the Mius line “Germany’s new frontier, inviolable and inviolable.” The Mius Front broke out in August 1943. About the stubborn battles of Soviet troops, almost continuously storming the Mius Front for fifteen months in 1941/1942 and in 1943 and why the feat of our fighters was undeservedly forgotten by historians, this tour tells. People's military-historical museum complex of the Great Patriotic War "Sambek Heights" created for the 75th anniversary of the Victory. This is the largest regional memorial complex erected in the Rostov region, near the village of Sambek in honor of Soviet soldiers who fought on the Mius Front line.
The territory of the complex occupies almost 14 hectares. At the highest point in the place where there were trenches, machine-gun nests and dugouts on the outskirts of the village of Sambek stands the memorial of Glory to the Heroes of the Mius Front and the Liberation of Taganrog with the Eternal Fire. The complex includes: "Alley of Memory" - the resting place of soldiers of the Red Army, the monument to the Soviet Soldier-Victor, the River of Life, the Height of People's Memory with the sculptural composition "Cranes", the interactive platform "Breakthrough" with the technique of the belligerents and fortifications, the exposition of the museum "Don in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1943", the information and exhibition center with two halls.

Thematic Military-Historical Countryside

13. Don's reserved beauty

Rostov-on-Don - State Natural Biosphere Reserve "Rostovsky" by transport 14 hours
Price on request, for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

Excursion trip to the southeast of the Rostov region to the valley of the Western Manych River. The endless steppes with a bottomless blue sky, carpets of flowering irises and tulips in the spring, ringing trills of larks, the running of free wild horses with manes fluttering in the wind, the purest air is all in the wild steppe protected, untouched by the plow.

Thematic Natural History Countryside

14. Unique city of Azov
Rostov-on-Don - Azov on transport 5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

Azov is the oldest city of the Don region. For more than 950 years, all forms of urban civilization have passed through. When we pass through narrow, winding streets, climb the rampart - Azov, keeping traces of bygone centuries, eras, will reveal its secrets to us.

Oversight Country

15. Aksai: Cossack Stanitsa-city
Rostov-on-Don - Aksai by transport 4 - 5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

Excursion to one of the oldest Cossack settlements - the former center of road and postal tracts since the end of the XVIII century, the most important transportation through the Don. How our ancestors traveled in antiquity, what difficulties they encountered in the way, on what wagons they moved, what signaling means they used, you will learn about all this and much more during the trip.

Thematic Historical Countryside

16. Old Cherkassian
Rostov-on-Don - Stanitsa Starocherkasskaya by transport + pedestrian 5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

Stanitsa Starocherkasskaya, the former main city of the Don Cossacks Cherkassk, has preserved its identity. Walking through the old streets, you will see the Cossack Kureni, the first Orthodox stone church on the Don, the Maidan, the Atamana farmstead and in the current measured rural life you will feel the spirit of long-gone times and events.

Thematic Historical Countryside

17. World Capital of Cossacks - Novocherkassk
Rostov-on-Don - Novocherkassk by transport 5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

Excursion to the last capital of the Don Cossacks, as well as Cossacks of Russia and abroad. In Novocherkassk, with the preserved original layout of the nineteenth century, we will see the “second sun of the Don”, triumphal arches, mansions with typical Cossack hens, the Ataman Palace, the guardhouse and monuments to the legendary Cossack heroes, stand on the pavers of the main square and the steppe wind turns the pages of the history of this glorious city.

Oversight Country

18. Light filled with Taganrog on transport 7 hours
Price on request

Excursion to the city-museum, in which everything is filled with the light of glorious history. Did you know that Taganrog is an all-Russian pioneer? What is it? You'll find out on the tour. The attraction of Taganrog is not only in its history, but also in the names of famous people: Chekhov, Peter the Great, Kuindzhi, Kukolnik, Garibaldi, Ranevskaya and others, etc. And Taganrog, is a resort city with beautiful seascapes.

Thematic Historical Countryside

19. The ancient city of Tanais
Rostov-on-Don - Tanais Archaeological Museum-Reserve by transport 5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 15 people

So what is this town, Tanais? What do ancient peoples have to do with us, modern representatives of the Russian people: Meots, Scythians, Sarmatians, ancient Greeks? Did the Amazons really live here, or were they all myths? Is it true that there was once a thriving ancient city at the mouth of the Don? You will find out the answers to these questions during the tour.

Thematic Historical Countryside

20. The Heart of Don - Disputes and Pukhlyakovsky
Rostov-on-Don - Pukhlyakovsky farm and village Razdorskaya from 8 to 12 hours
Price on request for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

Excursion to the first capital of the Don Cossacks of the 16th - 17th centuries. stanitsa Razdorskaya and Pukhlyakovsky farm - the center of Don viticulture. They are located on the territory of the Ust-Donetsk district, which is poetically called the “heart of the Don”. Why is that so? You'll find out on the tour. Along the way we will see the stunning landscapes of the Don Valley, a magnificent panorama of the winding ribbon of the Don River.
In the farm Pukhlyakovsky lived, the writer Anatoly Kalinin worked. According to his works “No Return”, “Gypsy” in the farm were filmed the eponymous feature films. On the territory of the farm there are excursion-interactive complexes. In the ethno-archaeological complex "Lost World" you can make a fascinating journey into the past, to the settlements of the Stone and Bronze Ages with huts, a sanctuary, workshops of primitive people and an ancient steppe mound. In the interactive museum "Cossack Stan" to get acquainted with the economic and household way of the Cossacks, you can try your hand at military art: archery, chopping a vine with a checker, throwing a lasso, as well as show dexterity and the ability to conduct households: bring water in buckets on a bucket; kick cereals in a stupa and the like. Visiting complexes of your choice and desire.
The village of Razdorskaya is associated with the fate of the participant of the Patriotic War of 1812 cavalry maiden Nadezhda Durova. You will see the monument to the squabbler Maxim Grigorievich Vlasov - the last Don ataman of the ancestral Cossacks in imperial Russia. To this day in Razdorskaya preserved the spirit of the Cossacks, the old way of life and a special way of life.

Thematic Historical Countryside

21. Donskoy Souvenir - Semikarako Faijan
Rostov-on-Don – Semikarakorsk – Stanitsa Kochetovskaya from 8 to 14 hours
Price on request for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

Excursion to the homeland of the Don faience in the city of Semikarakorsk is one of the earliest settlements of the Cossacks on the Don. Semikaracor ceramics is a bright phenomenon of the folk art culture of the Don. Excursion to the workshops of the Semikarakor Faience Enterprise "Aksinya", participation in a master class on faience painting. The originality and uniqueness of Semkarakor ceramics in the preservation of the historical traditions of the Don region, its nature with a steppe rift. After visiting the faience enterprise "Aksinya" we ferry across the Don River and visit the Cossack village of Kochetovskaya, which the writer Vitaly Zakrutkin called "Floating Stanitsa". Inspection of the embankment and the Kochetov hydroelectric complex, a visit to the house-museum of V.A. Zakrutkin.

Thematic Production/Historical Countryside

22. The revived paintings of the “Quiet Don” in the farm Starozolotovsky
Rostov-on-Don - farm Starozolotovsky 10 hours
Price on request for an individual tour for a group of up to 15 people

If you want to immerse yourself in the historical atmosphere of the novel “The Quiet Don” by M.A.Sholokhov, feel the Cossack spirit of the main characters, feel the touch of the bygone era and try to understand the special lifestyle of the Cossacks You definitely need to visit the farm Starozolotovsky.

It houses the open-air ethnographic museum “The Quiet Don”, its main exhibits are the Kureni – the dwelling of the Don Cossacks, which were used in the television art series based on the novel of the same name by M.A. Sholokhov “The Quiet Don” directed by Sergei Ursuliak. Machine houses with farmsteads are recreated "one in one", made according to the most Cossack technologies of the upper Don of the beginning of the last century. The house looks like it was left by the owners for a moment. There are clothes at the entrance, shoes. Along with the original exhibits: items of clothing and everyday life present in the film, the museum repeats the exact copies of prototypes of a century ago. The time spent on the farmsteads and in the homes of the Melikhovs, Astakhovs and Korshunovs is the time of immersion in the atmosphere of Cossack life at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries.

Starozolotovsky is also attractive because it is a member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Russia and is itself an open-air ethnographic museum.

Thematic Historical Countryside

23. What they ate and drank, how the Rostovites lived and live!
Rostov-on-Don pedestrian 2.5 hours
8000 R for an individual excursion for a group of up to 6 people

Gastronomic tour of the city center with the opportunity to learn about the taste preferences of residents of Rostov-on-Don throughout its history. Today, going to a restaurant or cafe is a common thing, but how did the culture of public catering appear in Russia and, of course, what was it like in Rostov-on-Don? They loved eating before the revolution as much as they do now. Mere mention of dishes in the classics of literature often causes an appetite. Some people cooked at home, some preferred ready-made meals to buy and consume in public places. What are these public places, what are they called and how have they changed over the centuries? On the street B. Sadovoi we will get acquainted with a typical representative of street food: Korobeinik is the first distributor of street food in Russia. You will find out where Rostov dined and dined, what dishes were in the menu of pre-revolutionary restaurants, coffee houses, tea and confectionery. Favorite in our time fast and convenient service delivery of various dishes directly to your home has its analogues in the distant past. We will understand how such a service was carried out two hundred years ago in Rostov-on-Don. You will find out what is kukhmeistersky and how they differ from canteens. A unique phenomenon on the culinary map of our country is Rostov cuisine and it differs from Cossack cuisine! What is the difference and why it happened to learn during a tour of the old streets of the city. Public food is not only food, it is also a variety of drinks. The history of drinking culture, its transformation over many centuries and its place in our time, is also quite an interesting part of the tour. The tradition of eating well yourself and feeding guests with dignity has lived on the Don for centuries. During the tour, we will understand what taste preferences Rostov residents had and whether they coincide with the taste preferences of modern Rostov residents.

Thematic Gastronomic Urban