traveling through russia while learning russian

Trans-SiberianRailway

Program

• Night:: Start at Moskow

• Morning: • Meeting with guide• Walking-tour of the city

center

• Noon: Departure to Ekaterinburg

• Afternoon: Lessons in train

Day 1

Day 2• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: Arrival in Ekaterinburg

Day 3• Night:: Night in Ekaterinburg

• Morning: Ekaterinburg tour excursion “The places of Romanov”:

• The youngest monastery in Russia “Ganina Yama” (the sacred place where the remains of the Romanov family were found in 1992)

• Lunch at Monastery (traditional house food)

• Noon: • Church on spilled blood• Walking-tour of the city

center

• Afternoon: Departure to Irkutsk

Day 4• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: Lessons in train

Day 5• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: Lessons in train

Day 6• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: 1. Arrival in Irkutsk2. Arrival at Lake Baikal (Listvyanka)3. Lessons on Lake Baikal

• Noon: 1. Excursion at Listvyanka:• Walking-tour of the center• The St-Nikolas church• Angara outlet: Shaman-

rock• Rice to Cherski Peak by

chair lift2. Lessons on Lake Baikal

• Afternoon: Russian banya

Day 7• Night:: Night at Baikal

• Morning: Excursion: Museum of national russian architecture “Taltsy”

• Noon: Excursion: Limnological Museum of Baikal

• Afternoon: Walk on the lakeside

Day 8• Night:: Night at Baikal

• Morning: Circum Baikal railroad tour

• Noon: Circum Baikal railroad tour

• Afternoon: Departure to Irkutsk

Day 9• Night:: Night in Irkutsk

• Morning: Irkutsk tour excursion “On the border of the times”

• Noon: Walking-tour of the city center

• Afternoon: Free time

Day 10• Night:: Departure to Khabarovsk

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: Lessons in train

Day 11• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: Lessons in train

Day 12• Night:: Night in train

• Morning: Lessons in train

• Noon: Lessons in train

• Afternoon: • Arrival in Khabarovsk• Tour excursion “Night lights”

Day 13• Night:: Night in Khabarovsk

• Morning: Children of Liceum “Stupeni” invite you to visit the performance: “Russian fairy tale ”

• Noon: Walking-tour of the city center

• Afternoon: Departure to Vladivostok

Day 14• Night:: Arrival in Vladivostok

• Morning: Car-tour of the city center

• Noon: Visit the museum “The military submarine”

• Afternoon: Walk along of the sea-front

Day 15

• Night:: Night in Vladivostok

• Morning: Airport: flight back to Moskow