CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES | EDUCATION IN RUSSIA

/The participation is optional. Tours would be organised if at least 6-8 participants indicated their wishes to take part. Accompanying persons may join any tour for the same fee/.

On-site orientation. Main Building of the University. Faculty of Basic Medicine.

We will help you in accommodation, instruct concerning living rules and facilities. Since the Main Building is very large, a special guide-tour is offered throughout the building. Some time is reserved to introduce you to the Faculty of Medicine including its laboratories, halls, libraries, computer rooms, etc. The cost of participation is free of charge.

Attention! All other tours are subjects to additional payment. The Organising Committee designs the tours using an access to discount system of hotels and tourist companies. Each tour is available if at least 6-8 persons have applied for.

Moscow sightseeing. Red Square. St Basil Cathedral. Kremlin inside.

Duration - half a day. Moscow subway - metro. Red Square - the center and one of the most beautiful places of Moscow. Lenin Tomb. Kremlin buildings. Fee – about US$ 10 (includes transfer by metro, St Basile museum, entrance to Kremlin area, assistance of English-speaking students; does not include Kremlin inside & Kremlin museums). 2 hour tour "Kremlin inside" (Kremlin museums with a professional guide) is for about additional USD 18. The exact fees depend on a number of participants.

Virtual Kremlin tour

Three-night, two-day trip to St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg is one the most beautiful cities in the world. In 2003 it celebrated its 300-year anniversary!

1st night: transfer Moscow- St.Petersburg (night train with sleeping facilities, 8 hours). 1st day: arrival to St.Petersburg, accommodation in a hotel. City sightseeing: Nevsky prospect, St Isaak Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Neva embankment. “Channels and Rivers” excursion on a boat. Dinner time. Visit to the Hermitage Museum - one of the world's richest repositories of art, continuously enlarged with Czarist treasures and acquisitions. 2nd day: trip to Peterghof - summer residence of tsars. It is the location of one of the world’s grandest palaces and one of St.Petersburg's most popular attractions (transfer by bus, 50 min, total time - 5 hours). Dinner time. Excursion to the Russian Museum of Arts /or free time/. Evening: leaving a hotel, train to Moscow. Fee – depends on the number of participants (includes costs of Moscow- St.Petersburg-Moscow transfer, room reservation and accommodation in a hotel, museum admission, transfer to Peterghof and back, assistance of English-speaking students or professional guides).

! One day prolongation of the tour is possible upon the request of at least 6 participants.

!! Please, could you inform us about your wishes to take the tour in advance: we need time to reserve room in a hotel and train tickets.

The tour to Vladimir & Suzdal'

Two day trip to VLADIMIR and SUZDAL.
Set on the steep and picturesque banks of the Klyazma River, Vladimir is one of Russia's oldest cities. This 1,000-year-old city owes its name to the Kievan count Vladimir, who founded the city around 990. He styled this beautiful city after Kiev, which was widely considered an architectural masterpiece at the time.The middle of the 12th century - the years when Vsevolod Big Nest and his older brother Andrei Bogolyubsky reigned in the city - was the height of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality. Vladimir was the capital of Russia in the twelfth century before the Mongol invasion; Moscow was its successor. The Assumption Cathedral and Golden Gate are examples of white stone, pre-Mongolian architecture.
Suzdal, a town only 35 kilometers away from Vladimir, also has a long history. Along with Rostov and Murom, this is one of the oldest and most romantic cities in Central Russia. It derives its name from the name of the land it was built on and is famous for its Kremlin, Pokrovsky and Spasso-Yevfimiyev Monasteries, as well as the church of Boris and Gleb in Kideksh. All have been included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.

1st day of the tour: transfer to Vladimir (train, 3 hours), accommodation in a hotel. Vladimir sightseeing: Golden Gates (1164), Uspensky Cathedral (1160) with its gold plated domes and frescoes by Andrei Rublyov, Dmitrievsky Cathedral (1197) wit a stone carving. Lunch time. Church Pokrov-on-Nerl' sightseeing (bus, 30 min). Supper time.
2nd day of the tour: transfer to Suzdal' (bus, 40 min). Visit to old monastery and its museums. Bells concert. Lunch time. The museum of wooden architecture. Transfer to Vladimir. Leave a hotel. Transfer to Moscow. Fee - depends on the number of participants (includes costs of Moscow-Vladimir-Suzdal'-Vladimir-Moscow transfer, room reservation and accommodation in a hotel, museum admission, assistance of English-speaking students).
! Please, could you inform us about your wishes to take the tour in advance: we need time to reserve room in a hotel and train tickets.