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Overview

You are welcome to the Solovetsky Archipelago at the White Sea. This place is famous for its monastery founded there in first half of the XV c. by monks-settlers Zosimus and Sabbatius. In the middle of the XVI c. Novgorod architects built magnificent cathedrals in stone. In the XVII-XIX cc. the Monastery a real advanced post of the Russian state in the North. Russian Tsars gave the monastery donations of not bells and icons but of gunpowder and arms. The unique system of canals made the largest islands of Archipelago navigable. Monks built railway, saltern and created a rich botanical garden on the islands. In 1920-1930s a concentration camp for political prisoners was set up on the largest island. During the tour offered you will visit the central architectural complex of the Monastery, Hill Sekirnaya with fantastic panorama of the Great Solovki Island, Big Zayatsky Island with its stone labyrinths, acquaint with history of Solovki GULAG.

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Itinerary

Day 1. Welcome to Solovki
10:53 Arrival at Kem by train. Meeting with the guide. Transfer to the pier. 12:00 Departure for Solovky by slow motor boat. 14:00 Transfer to the hotel Solovetskaya Sloboda. Lunch. Accommodation at the hotel. 16:00 Excursion around the Monastery complex.
10:53 Arrival at Kem by train. Meeting with the guide. Transfer to the pier. 12:00 Departure for Solovky by slow motor boat. 14:00 Transfer to the hotel Solovetskaya Sloboda. Lunch. Accommodation at the hotel. 16:00 Excursion around the Monastery complex. You will listen to the history of the legendary Solovetsky Monastery that once was one of the richest monasteries of Russia, visit its functioning church and go along its thick fortress walls that no enemy could overcome. 20:00 Dinner at the hotel. (LD)
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Day 2. Hill Sekirnaya and Island Zayatsky
Breakfast. 10:00 Hill Sekirnaya tour. Today you will visit the highest point of Big Solovetsky Island. On the top of the hill one of the strictest skits of the island with a unique lighthouse church is situated. During the GULAG time the skit was one of the cruelest of all the detention places for the inmates of the concentration camp. Today it is a living skit again; a very tranquil place that offers a fantastic panorama view over the island.
Breakfast. 10:00 Hill Sekirnaya tour. Today you will visit the highest point of Big Solovetsky Island. On the top of the hill one of the strictest skits of the island with a unique lighthouse church is situated. During the GULAG time the skit was one of the cruelest of all the detention places for the inmates of the concentration camp. Today it is a living skit again; a very tranquil place that offers a fantastic panorama view over the island. 13:30 Lunch after the end of the excursion. 15:00 Motor boat excursion to the Island Zayatsky. Stone labyrinths of Big Zayatsky Island are rare and valuable archaeological monuments. You will have a chance to observe the impressive monuments of the past and admire a special beauty of this small island. Climate here is so severe that the island is covered mostly with a variety of moss species and berries. 20:00 Dinner. (BLD)
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Day 3. Solovetsky concentration camp (GULAG)
Breakfast. 09:30 Excursion to the exposition devoted to the history of the Solovetsky concentration camp (GULAG). 12:00 Lunch. Free time on Big Solovetsky Island. 16:00 Transfer to Kem by slow motor boat. 19:00 Dinner. Transfer to the railway station. 20:38 Departure for St. Petersburg by train. (BLD)
Day 1
10:53 Arrival at Kem by train. Meeting with the guide. Transfer to the p...
Day 2
Breakfast. 10:00 Hill Sekirnaya tour. Today you will visit the highest p...
Day 3
Breakfast. 09:30 Excursion to the exposition devoted to the history of t...
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Day 1. Start Tour

Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km).

Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km).

Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km). Accommodation at a hotel, rest. In the evening - excursion to Paratunka resort center, swimming in thermal water poolMeeting at the airport, transfer to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (25 km)

Dates & Rates

*Price per person, EUR:
Dates any, June-September
Group, pax 1 2 4 6 8
Price per person, EUR 2140 1120 715 560 485
 
  • All the costs are valid at the date of publication and are subject to reconfirmation at the time of booking.


    The order of the excursions might be changed and some excursions might be changed for equivalent.

What is included

  • TWN/ SGL (for 1 pax group) accommodation
  • meals per program
  • service of English-speaking guide
  • excursion per program;
  • all transfers per program
  • visa support

Supplements & Discounts

  • SGL accommodation +75
  • train tickets
  • insurance
  • service of left-luggage rooms
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