Rakotyn Denis Vladimirovich

In 2000, I graduated from Volgograd State University with a degree in history. For more than 5 years I have been actively engaged in local history - the history of our glorious hero city of Volgograd, as well as other cities, villages and towns of the region. Favorite direction is the Battle of Stalingrad and the development of railways. I publish the results of my research in the community of VC "Stalingrad Frontiers". He traveled with a camera to the places of battle on the former contours of Stalingrad. I have been touring for over 4 years. I am a certified tour guide. Passed the training course "Organization of excursion services". He conducted many survey and thematic, individual and group excursions. I have many gratitude from my visitors. I will be happy to share with you my knowledge of our city and region with such an interesting history!

I conduct excursions on hiking routes, by personal car and by rented transport. The most popular routes are:

• Sightseeing tour "Volgograd - history and modernity". Three eras of the city. With a visit to the memorial complex on Mamayev Kurgan, the open exposition of the museum-panorama "Battle of Stalingrad", the historical center of Volgograd. Duration 3 to 4 hours. Walking or by car.
• Excursion route "Ludnikov Island" - HPP - Volzhsky. This route does not leave tourists indifferent. Strong impressions are made by the memorial "Ludnikov Island" and old houses of the lower village of the Barricades plant with traces of bullets and fragments on the walls. According to the diagrams of the headquarters of the 138th Rifle Division, we determine which houses were held by the soldiers of the 138th Rifle Division and which were occupied by the enemy. We get acquainted with the history of the emergence of settlements north of Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad. We visit two observation decks of the Volga HPP. The final part of the tour takes place in the historical part of the city of Volzhsky, built in the 1950s, as well as in the Hydrostroitel Park, which preserved the spirit of the Soviet era. Duration 4 hours. The tour takes place by guide car or on rented transport at the request of the customer.
• Thematic excursion "Southern regions of Volgograd". The route passes through the three southern districts of the city - Soviet, Kirov and Red Army. The purpose of the tour is to acquaint tourists with the history of the settlements of Elshanka, Beketovka, Otrada and the Hernguter-Lutheran community of Sarepta. We will visit the memorial to the soldiers of the 64th army "Bald Mountain", the oldest surviving buildings in the city built in the second half of the XVIII century - the church of Nikita Midiki and the Saxon-style buildings of the museum-reserve "Old Sarepta", the source of mineral water "Ergeninsky", impressive with its triumphant architecture of the construction of the first gateway of the Volga-Don shipping canal. Duration of 5 hours. The tour takes place by guide car or on rented transport at the request of the customer.
• Memorials "Rossoshinsky" and "Soldier's field". The tour takes place on the territory of Gorodische district of the Volgograd region. On the places of fierce battles of the Battle of Stalingrad. We will visit the memorial "Soldier's Field", where the famous monument to the girl Mila is installed, as well as the Rossoshinsky military memorial complex - unusual in its architecture, where former opponents - soldiers and officers of the Red Army who died at the borders of Stalingrad, as well as their opponents from the formations of Hitler's Germany and the army of Romania are buried. Duration up to 5 hours. The tour takes place by guide car or on rented transport at the request of the customer.
• Ecological route Lake Baskunchak and Big Bogdo Mountain. We go to the steppe village of Nizhny Baskunchak, historically known as the village of salt miners. Then there is a part of the excursion on the territory of the Bogdinsko-Baskunchak Reserve, namely on the tourist trail "Legends of the Holy Mountain" along the stunning natural beauty of the slopes of the Bolshaya Bogdo mountain, where the exits to the surface of the sediments of the ancient seas of the Triassic period (250 - 200 million years ago) form striking forms of weathering and landscapes reminiscent of Martian. From the observation decks open views for tens of kilometers around. At the request of the customer, the rented UAZ will take to the salt beach of Lake Baskunchak or mud springs. On the way back, we stop at the site of the second capital of the Golden Horde city of Sarai al-Jedid (New Saray). It lasts about 12 hours. The tour takes place by guide car or on rented transport at the request of the customer.
• Excursion support in the museum-panorama "Battle of Stalingrad" and the museum-reserve "Old Sarepta". By arrangement.