Smolensk corners

10 unusual streets of the central part of the city: their history, residents and unusual places

“Nooks of Smolensk” is an amazing journey into the past of the ancient city, a conversation about its life and life for a millennium, about the ups and downs, joys and sorrows. This is an opportunity to see another Smolensk. After all, the beauty of our city is that here you can turn from the main street, easily get into the mysterious world of memories and stories. And this world is sometimes even more saturated than streets with front facades. Here dinosaurs hide between cozy houses, and retro cars to the music of Grebenshchikov dream about the past. Get lost in the nooks?

What do we do on the tour?

• Slowly walk along the oldest city streets within the fortress wall – and consider almost all cobbled ancient cobblestone Smolensk streets.
• We will take pictures of the Assumption Cathedral from the most unusual and profitable angles.
• We will walk along the paths, not even known to all indigenous Smolensk, and see real life in the ravines and hills of the city.
• Find out where the Red and Green streams merge, look for the Smolyanka River.
• Let’s count the hills and ravines of Smolensk, let’s figure out where the “cool boyar” is located.
• We will mark on the map the places where the fortifications passed before the appearance of the fortress wall.
• Let's go to the spring of St. Abraham.
• We will see the legendary former church dormitory.
• We'll see the house where Napoleon lived.
• We'll look for a dinosaur in the bushes.
• Disclose military secrets.
• We get lost at the Ho Chi Minh City Trail.

Price (from the whole group):

• 1-5 people - 7,000
• 6-10 people - 8,000
• 11-15 people - 9,000
• 16-20 people - 10,000
• 21-25 people - 11,000
• 26-30 people - 12,000
• 31-35 people - 13,000
• 36-40 people - 14,000
• 41-45 people - 15,000
• 46-50 people - 16,000

Organizational details:

The duration of the walk is 3 hours. The route is 3 km long. It's a walking tour. When visiting temples, ladies will need headgear. You need to wear shoes comfortably, there will be steep ascents and descents on the way.

Start: the platform at the stairs on the Cathedral Hill (the address of the cathedral is street). Cathedral Court, 5. Finish is an observation deck on Nogina Street (address near Nogina, 32B).

The tour is addressed to adults, but its material does not imply age restrictions.

Attractions on the route:

Cathedral Mountain, the Assumption Cathedral, the cobblestone pavement on the Red Creek, the source of St. Abraham of Smolensk, the remains of fortress buildings of the 15th-16th centuries, the cobblestone pavement on Furmanov Street, the best view of the Assumption Cathedral, the Lower George Church (the current church-dormitory), the building of the former theological seminary, the Saviour Church (the former church-dorium), the Kakhovsky house, the location of the house of Nikifor Murzakevich, under the clock, the ensemble of the street. Great Soviet, a memorial on the street. Kozlova, Tyrannosaurus in the bushes, cobblestone pavement on the street. Voikova, Resurrection Church, Tukhachevsky bunker, holy spring, commune house, observation deck on the street. Nogina.

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