DAY 1 MOSCOW Fri Arrival to MOW and meeting with English speaking guide TRF to hotel for accommodation Dinner at Indian restaurant Coach & guide for TRF Overnight at hotel DAY 2 MOSCOW - BOROVSK - MALOYAROSLAVEC KALUGA SatBreakfast at hotel :30Departure to Borovsk (100 km~2h) 9: :30AM: Arrival in Borovsk, city tour + exc. to The Tsiolkovsky memorial apartment Departure to Maloyaroslavec (30 km ~ 40 min) 12:30City tour + Panorama of battle :30Lunch at restaurant 14:30Departure to Kaluga (40 km~40 min) 16: :30PM: exc. to Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics 18:30Accomodation and dinner at hotel 19:00Overnight at hotel DAY 3 KALUGA MOSCOW Sun8:00Breakfast at hotel, check out :00AM: city tour 10:30Departure to Moscow (200 km ~ 3,5h) Lunch in the Indian restaurant PM: Space museum free time without coach&guide Dinner at Indian restaurant Coach & guide for trip from Kaluga and for city tour in Moscow DAY 4 MOSCOW - St. Petersburg Mon Breakfast at hotel AM: exc. to Star City: rocket "MIR", "SOYUZ", International Space Station (all from outside) Lunch in the Indian restaurant TRF to the r/w station, departure to SPB by Sapsan train at 17:40, arrival at 21:30. Arrival to SPB, meeting with ESG Dinner at Indian restaurant Coach & guide from 09:30 till 19:30 in MOW, for 4 hours in SPB Overnight at hotel DAY 5 St. Petersburg Tue Breakfast at hotel :00 AM: City tour: Nevsky Prospect, State Hermitage Museum (outside), the Admiralty (outside), St.Isaac's Cathedral (outside), Fine Arts Square, Church of Resurrection on Spilled Blood, Smolny Cathedral, Bronze Horseman. 13:00Lunch in the Indian restaurant PM: Hermitage (main building) Optional Folkshow 19:00Dinner at the Indian restaurant Coach and guide from 09:00 till Overnight at hotel DAY 7 ST. PETERSBURG Thu Breakfast at hotel, check out till 12: TRF to airport Coach & guide for TRF End of services Day 6 ST. PETERSBURG Wed Buffet breakfast AM: Peterhof (Park&Palace) Lunch in the Indian restaurant PM: mini-cruise along canals Dinner at the Indian restaurant Coach and guide from 09:00 till 21.00 THE TSIOLKOVSKY MEMORIAL APARTMENT AT BOROVSK At the end of 1960s in Borovsk in 49, Tsiolkovsky street (the former Kruglaya street, in the house that had formerly been owned by M.I.Pomukhina where K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky rented an apartment occupying the whole of the upper floor from April 1887 through fall 1888) the Tsiolkovsky Museum was set up and opened by some public organization. After some time it closed down. At the beginning of the 1980s the Borovsk city council, some pubic organizations in Borovsk and the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics came to the decision to reconstruct the museum. On the 19th of September 1997 the Tsiolkovsky Memorial Apartment (as a division of the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics) was opened in the reconstructed house. This is how K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky came back to Borovsk, where he had spent his earlier years and where he had started his career as a teacher. The display of the Memorial Apartment familiarizes its visitors with the life and work of Tsiolkovsky, a founder of theoretical astronautics. Before coming to Borovsk Tsiolkovsky lived in Ryazan, Moscow and Vyatka. The museum display features the scholars childhood, youth and tells about the family he came from. Visitors to the museum learn why Kostya Tsiolkovsky was not able to graduate from Vyatka high school, why he was so lonely and isolated, why he had to self-educate. In September 1879 in Ryazan Tsolkovsky passed the exam as an external student to qualify as a school teacher of math, and in January 1880 he got his first job teaching math in a district school in Borovsk. This is how Tsiolkovsky found himself in Kaluga land. Tsiolkovsky lived in Borovsk from January 1880 through February This period is presented through 19th-century pictures of Borovsk and the map of Borovsk. There are thirty places in Borovsk associated with Tsiolkovsly. Many remarkable architectural monuments known and seen by Tsiolkovsky are still preserved. When Tsiolkovsky first came to Borovsk in January 1880, he stayed in the rooms of the local hotel located in the central square (the building is still preserved). One can still see the sublime Gospel Cathedral where K.Ed.Tsiolkovvsky went to. He admired the wooden Pokrov Church in the village of Vysokoye, built at the turn of the 17th century and the famous monastery founded by the saint Pafnutiy in The nature and town landscapes have not practically changed since the time when K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky lived there. The young teacher loved the picturesque environs of the town which were beautiful in any season. In winter he used to skate on ice drawn by the wind and to ski down from Visokaya hill. In summer he went boating (in home-made boat) with his wife, friends and pupils. The display also tells about Borovsk-dwellers who were good friends and acquaintances of the young teacher and who were helping him. They were: the merchant N.P.Glukharyov, the inspector N.K.Fetter, who had a home library. Several advanced people in Borovsk had clubbed together to buy books for it. Tsiolkovsky participated in it too. Together with I.V.Shokin Tsiolkovsky took up photography, made and flew kites over a steep and deep precipice of Tekizhensky ravine In Borovsk K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky got married. He rented a room in the house of his future father-in-law and here he met his wife-to-be Varvara Yevgrafovna Sokolova. They got married in the Virgins Church in the village of Roshcha on the 20th of August The brides father Ye.Ye.Sokolov and her brother Ivan, the teachers I.I.Chistyakov and N.A.Tolmachov were present at the ceremony. In Borovsk the Tsiolkovskys had their four children: Lubov (1881), Ignatiy (1883), Alexander (1885), Ivan (1888). The reconstructed Tsiolkovskys creative laboratory of 1880s-1890s is the focus of the museums display. It was restored on the basis of Tsiolkovskys autobiographies, his wifes and elder daughters memoirs, memoirs by his contemporaries. Here the visitor can see the scholars writing desk with books from Tsiolkovskys library on it, some manuscripts, drawing and writing materials, a home-made tin lamp and the aerodynamic device called vertushka. Different devices and models made by K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky are also on display. As Tsiolkovsky confided later: in Borovsk I resumed my funny experiments in physics and serious works on math I wrote, calculated, soldered, planed, fused. The division Scientific ties presents Tsiolkovsky as a member of the scientific community of the 1880s-1890s. His hard intellectual work resulted in major scientific papers, which were known to P.M.Golubitsky, A.G.Stoletov, I.M.Sechenov, D.I.Mendeleyev, N.Ye. Zhukovsky, the Russian Society for Physics and Chemistry, the Emperor Russian Technical Society, etc. World space (as it was seen by K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky) with the tracks of humans presence resulting from the development of astronautics, is presented with the three groups of ideas: Eternal youth of the universe, On the Moon, Life in free space. The first group is presented with some pages of the paper Duration of the sun radiation and Gravitation as a source of the world energy revealing the scholars ideas on inexhaustibility of energy sources (heat and light), on the infinite number of hearths of life in the universe, on possible participation of higher extra-terrestrial intelligence in humans life on the Earth. It was his conviction that humans ought to be ready to face extraordinary inexplicable phenomena. In 2003 on the second floor of the Memorial Apartment there was a display opened dedicated to Tsiolkovskys career as a teacher. It features what kind of teacher Tsiolkovsky was and familiarizes with his teaching methods. The visitor to the Memorial Apartment learns about the educational institutions, where Tsiolkovsky worked. The unique archive documents associated with Tsiolkovskys teaching career, like students notes of his physics lessons, their exercise-books with Tsiolkovskys marks in them, drawings of instruments for experiments in physics are on display. Visitors to the museum can see the interior of the study of the ladies parish school head mistress and the classroom. In Tsiolkovskys classroom one can see a school desk, which does not look like a modern one at all, the schoolgirls uniform, the spyglass, which Tsiokovsky used to watch the stars with his students, different instruments for experimenting at physics lessons in technical high school and ladies parish school. The visitor will be surprised to see tissue paper kites and balloons made by Tsiolkovsky for his students. A matchbox is tied to one of them. Tsiolkovsky put a cockroach in it to see how he would endure the flight. This is how Tsiolkovsky began his scientific experiments in Borovsk. Here he flew the kite in the shape of the hawk. The kite looked so much like a bird of pray that real birds flew away as soon as they saw it, and Borovsk-dwellers kept on asking what the teacher fed the bird with. K.Ed.Tsiolkovsky retired from his teaching post in October For his contribution as a teacher he was decorated with Order of St.Stanislav (third class) in 1906 and Order of St.Anna (third class) in 1911. The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration..[1] It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city. The driving force behind the creation of the museum was Sergei Korolyov, chief designer of RKK Energiya.. The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year and has 127 employees, of whom 43 are curators. Main exposition The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket. Tsiolkovsky house In the outskirts of Kaluga is the wooden house in which Tsiolkovsky lived. In 1936, one year after his death, this house was turned into a memorial house museum and is now part of the museum organization. The museum also incorporates a scientific effort to study the life and works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The Annual Tsiolkovsky Readings and Conference is organized by the museum. Tsiolkovsky house SPACE MUSEUM AT MOSCOW Space Museum Space Museum is located underneath the monument "To the Conquerors of Space" and is unquestionably one of the most interesting museums in Moscow. It has opened its doors after a full reconstruction a couple of years ago and is now an interesting underground space with an exhibition dedicated to the launch of Sputnik and the flight of a man into space. The exposition begins with a demonstration of the first artificial earth satellites and the story of how people have started to conquer the outer space. It reveals the story of aeronautics, aviation, rocket and space technology. In the same place stuffed dogs Belka and Strelka are exhibited, which were the first living creatures has been in space. The most spacious room is given to to the museum's exhibition on human flights to the moon and space. You will be able to go to the layout of the base unit of orbital station "Mir" and other orbital stations and learn how life was organized for astronauts who lived and worked on the station for months. Visiting the museum will show you how a magnificent dream of space has become a reality. PANAROMA OF BATTLE 1812 AT MALOYAROSLAVEC MUSEUM-PANORAMA THE BATTLE OF BORODINO Opening hours Open daily a.m. 6.00 p.m. Booking office till 5.15 p.m. On Thursday 10 a.m. 9 p.m. Booking office till 8.15 p.m. On third Sunday of each month the entrance is free. Closed on Friday, the last Thursday of each month. General information There are events in any countrys history that remain fixed forever in peoples memory. The Russian victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 is one such event in the history of Russia. The hundredth anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 was approaching. Russia was preparing to celebrate the jubilee. Some progressive-minded intellectuals decided that a panorama about one of the events of 1812 should be built. The government supported this idea and commissioned Franz Roubaud to work on it. Panorama Borodino (as it was then called) was opened on August 29, 1912, in a wooden pavilion on Chistoprudny Boulevard in the center of Moscow. By 1918, the building was completely beyond repair. The canvas was removed, rolled up and carefully stored away. In 1962, the 150th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, a new museum building was opened. The location chosen for it was not a chance one. The village of Fili, on the outskirts of Moscow, was a place where Field-Marshal Kutuzov held his historic Council of War in the peasant hut (izba). It was there that the fate of Moscow was decided. Now near the hut, an obelisk stands over the common grave of three hundred Russian soldiers who died in Moscow from wounds received during the Battle of Borodino. Not far from the museum, there stands the Triumphal Arch erected in honour of the victory over Napoleon. The statue of Mikhail Kutuzov by N.V.Tomsky was also set up near the museum in The highlight of the museum exposition is the panorama Borodino painted by an outstanding Russian artist Franz Roubaud. Canvas (115 meters in length and 15 meters in height) depicts the decisive episode of the battle between the Russian and French armies near Borodino village at a.m. on September 7, Franz Roubaud presented the high point of the battle when "all the infantry, cavalry and artillery were fighting desperately". In 2012 the museum brings forward an updated museum exposition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Russian victory in the 1812 Patriotic War. The exposition named the Honour of the Borodino Day consists of two halls. The dominating idea of the exposition is man and war. history of 1812 War with all its drama. The tour around the museum is accompanied with special audio-visual effect. Current exhibitions Christmas Eve. The Novel by Nikolai Gogol in books and cinema art December 19, February 21, 2016 At the end of the Russias Year of literature the exhibition invites to remember Christmas Eve by Nikolai Gogol, a wonderful story from his famous Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka story collection. The wide range of Christmas Eve book editions are on display, from the oldest one dated back to 1832 up to the rich-illustrated one issued in In 20th century well-known Gogols characters and their adventures were represented in the Soviet cinema art. The exhibition demonstrates the preliminary designs for the movies and cartoons which were based on Christmas Eve and came out in s.. MUSEUM OF HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Opening hours Open daily a.m. 6.00 p.m. Booking office till 5.15 p.m. On Thursday 10 a.m. 9 p.m. Booking office till 8.15 p.m. On third Sunday of each month the entrance is free. Closed on Friday, the last Thursday of each month. TSIOLKOVSKY STATE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF COSMONAUTICS AT KALUGA The Hall of Space Technology inside the museum. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian inventions: the first satellite, Sputnik 1 the first spacesuits the first human spaceflight module, Vostok 1 the first Molniya-type satellite the first space rover, Lunokhod 1 the first space station, Salyut 1 the first modular space station, Mir The building of the museum. On the left, a part of the rocket park is visible. The prices includes: Accommodation TRPL Meals as per program (6 buffet breakfasts at hotels, 4 lunches at Indian restaurant, 1 lunch at local restaurant, 1 box dinner, 4 dinners at Indian restaurant, 1 dinner at the hotel); All sightseeing including entrance fees (The Tsiolkovsky memorial apartment, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Star City (Gagarin Space Training Centre) : rocket "MIR"(outside), "SOYUZ" (outside), International Space Station (outside), Space Museum, Hermitage, Peterhof, mini-cruise along canals; English speaking guide for all the TRF-s and excursions as mentioned in the program; A/C bus (max 49 seats) for all the TRF-s and excursions; Registration fee at hotel in SPB. Economy class Sapsan train tickets MOW-SPB (one way) in case passport details are sent in 60 days prior to trains departure (Visa fees (Rs per passport) Intl airtickets BOM-MOW-BOM) The prices dont include: Porterage services at hotels, airports, r/w stations; Meeting with the cosmonaut Entrance into the MIR rocket Hotels: MOSCOW-Ibis*** / Kolomenskoe ****/ Aerostar **** or similar hotel KALUGA-Four points by Sheraton 4*/ Hilton Garden Inn Kaluga 4* or similar hotel SPB-Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya / Park Inn Pulkovskaya / / Moskva **** or similar hotel Heera Star Holidays Pvt. Ltd. "THE AFFAIRES" 1901, 19 th Floor, Palm Beach Road Plot No. 9, Sector 17, Sanpada Navi Mumbai. Contact: 022 / //