Excursion to the Museum of the German colony of Sarepta
Description:
We invite you to take a trip to the southern parts of the city. The route passes through five districts of Volgograd. You will find yourself in the center of the square of a Western European town, surrounded by buildings of the 18th century, which tell a lot about the life of the German colony of Sarepta.
1. Sarepta was known among contemporaries as “a pearl on the banks of the Volga”, “an oasis of the Kalmyk steppes”. There was discovered and explored the Yergenin mineral spring with healing water. Many Russian aristocrats from Moscow and St. Petersburg came for treatment on the "Sarept waters". .
2. In 1989, the State Historical, Ethnographic and Architectural Museum – the Old Sarepta Reserve was opened. Get acquainted with the exposition of the museum-reserve. 3.
3. You will arrive at the Volga-Don shipping canal, from the observation deck at the 57-meter monument to Lenin there is a beautiful view of the Volga, the entrance to the first lock of one of the largest shipping canals in the world, you will get acquainted with its history and work. Duration: 4 hours. The cost of individual tickets to the museum is 250 rubles (each).