Tours around Volgograd

Welcome to the Tourist Company "Maya Tours" Volgograd.
We are a tour operator for the reception of individuals and organized groups in the hero city of Volgograd. In the market of tourist services since 2000

Travel agency Maya Tours is the winner of the competition "RAITING "Five Stars" of the Union of Consumers" in the nomination "Best Tourist Organization".

Our company employs guides with extensive experience.

There are children's guides who bring very interesting and informative information to children.

We accept individual groups from 2 people, as well as organized school and corporate groups.

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"Maya Tour" offers you excursions to Volgograd and the region: - Bus tour through the city with a visit to Mamayev Kurgan During this tour, tourists will get acquainted with the main memorable places of the hero city of Volgograd, located at the historical crossroads from Asia to Europe. Visit the Central embankment of 62 Armies - the gate to the city from the Volga, the Alley of Heroes - the Volgograd Arbat, the memorial square, the square of the Fallen Fighters, the zero kilometer, post No. 1, the Eternal Flame, will pass along Mira Street - a symbol of the revived post-war city, will visit the House of Sergeant Yakov Pavlov - one of the bastions of soldierly glory, on the square named after V. I. Lenin, near the ruins of the Gergard mill, will get acquainted with the history of Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad - Volgograd - the Eternal Flame - a symbol of the restored post of the post of the post-war city of Russia, will be able to visit the Great Victory 102-1010-1945 in 1941, the Great Victory, the Great Victory in the Great Victory in the Great Victory of Russia.

Bus Excursion to the Southern Districts of the City with a Visit to the Museum - Reserve "Old Security" During the excursion to the southern regions of Volgograd you will learn about the colonization of the region, its settlement and the development of natural resources. Tourists will visit unique architectural and religious monuments: Nikitskaya Church is a unique cult building that remained to us from Tsaritsyn of the second half of the XVIII century. - the house church of Count N. A. Beketov, the museum-reserve "Old Sarepta" - part of the old German colony, founded in 1765, will see the largest hydraulic structure - the Volga-Don shipping canal.

Bus Excursion "In the Guest at the Fairy Tale" (designed for junior classes) One-day excursion: during the tour you will see the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain natural park and the lotus lake, the museum of the Russian fairy tale, Sarai-Berke - the second capital of the Golden Horde.

You will visit an amazing corner of the South of Russia with a rich history, original culture and traditions - Kalmykia. The capital of Kalmykia is Elista, a city where multilingual speech sounds. It is the most peaceful and peaceful city in the whole North Caucasus. You will see and visit the Buddhist Khurul. Here you will learn the four noble truths, as well as the biography of Gautama Buddha and the foundations of his teachings; the Goddess Kaisi. Visit the chess town - City Chess; Ostap Bender and 12 chairs. Be sure to take a picture nearby. Ernst Unknown. His sculpture "Exodus and Return" was brought to Elista from America. Kurde is a desire drum. In it you will put notes with your wishes. Jombo is Kalmyk tea. The natives drink it as white wine. We'll take a sample, too. The descendants of Genghis Khan. So when did they come to these steppes from Dzungria? This is also the story on the way to the Republic of Kalmykia. The cost for 1 person. 900 rubles. During the tour you will visit the soldier field. Inspection of the Tsaritsyn guard line - Petrov shaft, where "in 1718, the great Tsar Peter Alekseevich for protection from unintended Tatar raids ordered from Tsaritsyn to the Don to make a considerable line of shaft, laying turf, and along that line in decent places to make small fortresses." Visit to the Holy Trinity Belogorsk Kamennobrodsky Monastery with its chalk caves, 12th century. Visit the grove of centuries-old oak trees planted more than 600 years ago.

Serafimovich – A sightseeing tour of Serafimovich awaits you, you will visit the women’s Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery, the main shrine of the monastery is a miraculous stone, on which, according to legend, the Mother of God herself left prints of her hands and knees. It is believed that if you pray and touch the stone, you can heal many diseases and ailments. On the way to the monastery we will visit the Parish of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. A few years ago, a lithographic icon of the Mother of God was bleeding there. Kneel before miraculously travel from all over Russia. Also during the tour you will visit the temple, which was built in the name of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Virgin Mary; St. Nicholas, Archbishop of the Peace of Lycia, miracle worker; Holy Royal Martyrs. A wooden log house for the temple was brought from under Yekaterinburg, skillful craftsmen collected it from logs. You will be able to put candles and order trebs at the icons with particles of relics of Orthodox saints.

Bus Excursion to the Soldier Field (3 hours). During the tour you will visit the Soldier Field, where, from the working village of Gorodishche to the village of Orlovka, 20 kilometers long, bloody battles were fought both in the defensive and offensive periods of the Battle of Stalingrad. The tour introduces the memorial "Soldier's field", which is dedicated to the fallen defenders of Stalingrad. The main composition of this memorial is a bronze sculpture of a girl rushing to the mass grave of Soviet soldiers, whose remains were found during mine clearance. In the center of the memorial is a funnel in the form of a five-pointed star, from the bottom of which an “explosion” of soldered shells and fragments of bombs, shells and mines rises. It is a symbol of the last explosion of the 2nd World War. Bus Excursion to the village of Rassoshki (duration 3 hours-4 hours.) Military Memorial Cemetery of German Soldiers The central figure of the Soviet cemetery is a 6-meter concrete sculpture “The Grieving Mother”, made by sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov. The sculpture is a stylized figure of a woman holding a bell over her head with her tongue torn out. The cemetery of German soldiers consists of 2 parts. The first rectangle-shaped unit contains the remains of 1,639 soldiers. The second part has the shape of a large bowl with a diameter of 120 meters. More than 50,000 German soldiers and officers are buried in this cup. Their names are written on a concrete ring surrounding a common grave. Next to this mass grave are granite cubes, on which the names of 120,000 soldiers and officers who are considered missing are stamped. Cost for 1 person. 400 rubles. Excursion to the ostrich farm A fascinating excursion to the ostrich farm for the breeding of the Black African ostrich (varieties of the African ostrich, biology, history of ostrich farming and their breeding, cultivation). Interesting facts from the life of ostriches. As a gift, you will receive a piece of eggshell and ostrich feather, photos for memory from your camera. Near the ostrich farm , 5 km. at the comfortable tourist base "Stupinskaya" will be treated to each visitor with an ostrich egg omelet and tea party!!!! You can buy souvenirs on the farm (decorative egg on a stand, ostrich feather, ostrich table egg) The price includes: travel, guide on the farm, lunch

"Holy Sources." During the tour, tourists will visit four healing and holy springs. The healing spring of John the Theologian, in which three springs are reunited into one; The source of Holy Paraskeva Friday is considered miraculous (Gorodishchensky district); the Source of Grandfather Taran. (M. Gorky); Yergeninsky source (Kiriv district). Visit 2 temples: the Temple of Nikita the Confessor (in Beketovka), the Church of St. Paraskeva Friday.

Excursion to Dubovka Excursion program: Archistratig Michael Temple, "Ancient monuments - sites of the Stone and Bronze Age" - Yerzovsky beam and pos. Chelyuskinets - in the course of movement, the women's "Holy Ascension Monastery", the holy spring, the old Dubovka, the people's museum of the history of Dubovka, the oak - a giant, the Vodiansk settlement, a picnic in the "camp" beam. Old merchant houses and trading houses, coastal labases and warehouses, piers, fishing boats, boats - Dubovka is old and new. A small town on the banks of the river, many of which are scattered throughout our vast homeland. But this is only at first glance, here from every house, street, even name blows history. Here everything is entangled with legends and secrets, something is true and something is not. On the territory of the current sanatorium "Dubovka" stands oak, now it is more than 500 years old. In fact, he remained alone in this town, but earlier on all the land of the city and villages adjacent to it, a huge oak tree grew. Although the oak tree is alone, it is special. If he wants to make a noise, he will make a noise, he will make a noise with branches, and it will be fulfilled. According to legend, under him sat and thought and Stenka Razin, and Emelyan Pugachev. Since then, his wisdom and free-thinking ideas have passed to him.

Route: village Elton - Mount Ulagan - Lake Elton - Smorogdinsky mineral spring - Elton village. This route passes near the village of Elton. Having made this excursion, you will get acquainted with the main unique natural objects of Prieltonje. Mount Ulagan offers a beautiful view of Lake Elton and its surroundings. Driving by road from Mount Ulagan to the lake and Smorogdinsny mineral spring. You will see a kind of halophilic steppes, where among the green (spring) and yellow (summer) cereals and silver wormwood tower dark green pillows of Sarsazan and spiny bushes of Shober nitraria. In the dry, aromatic steppe grasses, the air is heard trilling larks. You can also see beautiful cranes grazing and eagles soaring in height. 2 ecological trails have been created and are constantly working in the natural park, where excursions are conducted by members of the children's environmental organization "Hope", which was created at the natural park.

Bus Excursion to Lake Baskunchak

Excursion "Baskunchak - All-Russian salt shaker at the Sacred Mountain".

In the boundless steppes of the Astrakhan region, in the Akhtuba district, there are three villages - Upper Baskunchak, Middle Baskunchak and Lower Baskunchak. The upper iron is suitable, in the middle gypsum is mined, and in the lower - salt. The threads of their life force lead to the Salt Lake and the Sacred Mountain, and as long as there is Lake and Mountain, the villages will not disappear from the face of the Earth.

During the tour, you will hear a story about the highest relief element in the Caspian lowland - Mount Bolshaya Bogdo (absolute mark of + 152, 5 meters) and plunge into one of the largest salt lakes in Russia - Baskunchak, whose healing properties exceed those of the Dead Sea.

During the tour you will visit the Salt Museum, swim in the Baskunchak lake, take salt and mud (ilosulfide) baths.

Saray Batu. Capital of the Golden Horde. On the territory of the Kharabala district of the Astrakhan region there is a monument of archaeology of federal significance "Literary settlement", which is the remains of the city of Sarai (Saray-Batu) - the capital of the Golden Horde. Studies of the monument have been conducted since 1964 by the Volga Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The nitrate settlement is one of the largest archaeological sites in Eurasia. The archaeological potential of the monument and natural landscapes are of interest not only to specialists, but also to the unprepared viewer-excursor.

In 2010, in the immediate vicinity of the archaeological monument, a historical feature film was filmed under the working title St. Alexis. It was released in September 2011 under the name “The Horde”. The plot of the film develops in the capital of the Golden Horde - the city of Sarai Batu in the middle of the 14th century. The film was shot by specialists of Mosfilm and the film studio “Orthodox Encyclopedia” by order and under the patronage of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

After the end of the filming process, the scenery for the film - the central part of the city of Sarai-Batu became the object of a tourist show, where you can visit the site "Literary Fortress - Decorations".

During the tour you will see:

Selitre settlement - decorations "Saray-Batu", inspection of excavations on the ancient capital of the Golden Horde; a visit to the cultural and entertainment center "Saray-Batu" you can buy souvenirs.

Veschenskaya

Stanitsa Veshenskaya (view tour, visit to the memorial museum "House-estate of Sholokhov M.A.") Kruzhilinsky (House-estate of the Sholokhov family, with a show of the Cossack farmstead); Visit to the Memorial Estate of M.A. Sholokhov. Excursion to the Museum-Reserve

"Into the Cossack Kuren"

Historical and local history bus tour. About traditions, customs, life of the Don Cossacks. The road to the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life ran from the Volga to the Don. Along the way, you will learn about the creation of the Volga-Don wire of the times of Peter I, visit the memorial complex on the Soldier Field, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

In the museum you will be greeted with bread and salt, will be held along the Cossack farmstead, then a concert of the ensemble "Cossack Kuren", well-known and popular in Europe. The most courageous will pass the rite of initiation to the Cossacks and take with them the certificates signed by the Cossack ataman.