Independent travel and view of the city of Great Lukes!

Veliky Luki is a small city in the south of the Pskov region with a rich history and a difficult fate.

“Velikie Luki is a city with a beautiful location, rich and commercial, the key to the ancient southern possessions of the Novgorod state,” Karamzin said in the “History of the Russian state.” Here you can not only calmly and safely relax, but also discover the city where Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Peter I, Empress Catherine II, by decree of which the city was granted the coat of arms, Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna. Over the centuries, the city has not lost its patriarchal slowness, calmness and attractiveness. Fishing as a city-forming river, washing the island of Dyatlinka in the historical center with two arms, is still a natural decoration of the city that stretches along its banks.

Within the city and picturesque areas there are comfortable hotels, bases, public food outlets that meet modern requirements. On the territory of a small city there are more than 40 objects of historical significance, 7 of which are objects of cultural heritage of federal significance.

The southern city of the Pskov region and its surroundings is distinguished by the presence of numerous unique museums:

• MBUK "Museum of Local Lore" (Matrosov Square, 1), whose funds make up collections on archaeology, numismatics, weapons and ethnography.
• The Memorial House is the museum of Academician I.M. Vinogradov (48 Stavsky Street), included in the list of historical and cultural heritage of federal significance, the only and unique of its kind.
• The Museum of Sports and Olympic Movement of the Pskov Territory (Jubileinaya Square, 4), whose experience is presented at international, all-Russian and regional scientific conferences, received a positive assessment at the meetings of the Olympic Education Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee.
• Regional Museum of Postal Communications (Nekrasova St., 1), which owns the idea of balloon mail during international meetings on aeronautics in Veliky Luki. The fact of flying a letter in a balloon increases its value among philocardists at times. During the All-Russian Pushkin holiday, the exhibits of the museum are used for the stylization of the post office of communication of the XIX century.
• The Veliky Luk Health Museum (Gornaya Street, 3) and the Museum of the History of the Operational Locomotive Depot (street). Coal, D.1

Near Velikie Luk there are memorial museums, one of which - the museum-manor of S.V. Kovalevskaya is listed in the international directory "Museums of the World", the museum-manor of M.P. Mussorgsky in the composer's homeland is the only one in the world.

Be sure to visit the drama theater, one of the oldest cultural institutions, numerous exhibitions or concerts. Get acquainted with the city of Great Lukes-City of Culture.

Travel agencies The cities of Velikie Luki will offer their services and organize tours and interesting excursions for travelers.