Individual arrival and check in at the hotel "Park Inn by Radisson,Ekaterinburg".    Things can be left for free in the hotel Luggage room until check-in.

09:45 - 10:00    meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

10:00    Sightseeing tour of Yekaterinburg.

Historical square, Church on spilled blood, the murder of the family of Emperor Nicholas II, St. Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin women's monastery, the monument to Marshal of Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov, the monument to the First President of Russia B. N.    Yeltsin, the square of 1905 fun fact!    23 Oct 1721, the next day, when Peter the great was proclaimed Emperor, signed the statement, which was ordered to build a city on the Iset river, and establish there "the Board of Siberian mining".    So the capital of the Urals has become the first project of the Russian Empire

Excursion to Ekaterinburg Museum of fine arts.

A visit to the hall of the Ural artistic casting (Kasli iron pavilion), hall of stone carving art.  Today Kasli cast-iron pavilion – the centrepiece of the Museum collection, registered in the International directory of UNESCO as a rarity - the world's only architectural structure made of cast iron, located in the Museum's collection.

14:30    transfer to the hotel.    Free time. 

Breakfast    buffet.

08:30    departure from the hotel.

Moving to  Polevskoy   .

It is the scene of many tales of P. P. Bazhov ("Mistress of copper mountain", "Danila-master", "Silver hoof", "Sinyushkin well", etc.)

Excursion to Museum complex "Seversky blast furnace" - a masterpiece of industrial architecture of Ural of XIX century.

Attention!    A private Museum.    If the Museum can not accept, then will be replaced by one of the museums next on the program within    the tour   .

The basis of the Museum complex "Seversky blast furnace" blast furnace is the only  in Europe    the masterpiece of the Ural industrial architecture of the mid XIX century, located in a high degree of integrity and giving a complete picture of production process of iron smelting in the nineteenth century.    In the form of blast furnaces impress with adjusted proportions and scale of industrial buildings.    An octagonal building with a domed roof and foundry yard resembles a temple.    When the building was used techniques, elements and masonry, characteristic of the erection of churches.

Lunch   .

A trip to Nizhniy Ufaley.

Excursion to the Museum  of Nizhniy Ufaley   .

Holiday concert "the Bashkir tradition in our day" with participation of ensemble "Laysan".

During the  celebration    guests get to know the traditional Bashkir games, hear the sound of national instruments, Kubis and twigs, fragrant tea with steppe herbs, chak-chak, firewood, honey, baursaks.

Transfer to the town  Miass   .

18:00    Check in to  a hotel    of economy class "Neptune" (bathroom in the room, the hotel is after repair).

The visit of the lake  Turgoyak   .

Recommend to take beach equipment for swimming!

In good weather, swim in the lake, a sandy beach.    Lake Turgoyak is the best pearl necklace from lake in Chelyabinsk region.    Turgoyak called the younger brother  of Baikal    for its amazingly delicious and clear water.    Due to the special plankton, the water in the lake under the rays of the sun shines silvery on the inside.    The lake is not very large, its length not more than 8 km and width 6 km.

Free time.    Overnight at the hotel.

 

7:30 Breakfast    a La carte on the 9th floor of the hotel. 

09:30    departure from the hotel.

Excursion to the Museum of the Ilmen reserve.

Museum of the Ilmensky reserve is the fifth largest mineralogical museums in the country.  The wealth of Ilmen copies bewitched a generation of geologists.    Here for the first time in the world was opened on the 15th of minerals.    Impressive diorama of the nature  of the southern    Urals – the largest  in Russia   .

Transfer to the town Zlatoust.

Lunch   .

A visit to the factory painted edged weapons, tour of "Kirovskoe settlement."

"Arouca" – a kind of historical and technological reconstruction that is closely connected with the traditional and modern manufacture of weapons.    Today in Russia such tourism objects, forging weapons topic is relatively.    In the Blacksmith's yard of the Armory settlement established authentic bloomery furnace, the current model nizhnevolga hammer driven by a water wheel, a stone forge with a boost from the wedge bellows.    Internal entourage Blacksmith's courtyard created in the likeness of the ancient forges that existed in the city of Zlatoust in the nineteenth century.    Interesting fact!    The pride of the Company air - mech-record "Svyatogor", which was recorded in the Russian Book of records as "The world's longest sword of damask steel.    After a tour of the Armory Sloboda are given time to souvenir shop where you can buy branded knives.

 

Tour of Chrysostom.

 

 

You will visit the district of red hill, Central square, mountain Park of a name of P. P. Bazhov.    Mining Park of a name of P. P. Bazhov  in Zlatoust    dedicated to his work. However, his sculptural content is not limited to tales of the writer.    Except the Mistress of copper mountain and lizards here you can discover the fairy glade with a wooden hut of Baba Yaga, the throne and other compositions, and also see the monuments of John Chrysostom, Yuri Gagarin.    Central sights — high stone fountain and bell tower with a height of 53.4 meters, it is also an observation deck with views of city, mountain Kosotur and ridge Taganay.

 

Tour the tower on red hill.

Departure to the city of Ufa.

Dinner   .

23:00    check in to the hotel "Holiday Inn Ufa" (time approximate depending on the movement on the Federal highway M5 "Ural" (repair, mountain passes)).

Breakfast    buffet.

10:00    Sightseeing tour of Ufa.

Interesting fact!    During the tour learn about one of the most beautiful mansions of Ufa of the beginning of XX century in art Nouveau style, owned by Elena Alexandrovna Ponosova-Mollo.    It was a bright personality, socialite, a sort of Ufa Madame Bovary.    But became famous for her two grandson's, John and Andrew.   One of them became a famous archaeologist, and the second a specialist in  historical    costumes.    And that Andrew is the author of the costumes for the films "Star wars" and "Alien", for which he received Oscars.   In particular, the costume of Darth Vader was invented just Andrew Mollo.

Tour of the Racecourse "Actobat".

For several years voted the best Racecourse in Russia.    In the case of competition, a tour of the Hippodrome is replaced by  a guided tour    in Ufa Limonar.    On the racetrack, is the signature store "House of honey".

If you wish    for an additional fee you can ride on horse (150 rubles/person).

Lunch.

Excursion to the national Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan with a visit to the halls: an Ethnography of Bashkir nation with a hall of bortnichestvo, the caves of Bashkortostan.

Interesting fact!    The most famous caves of the southern Urals - Shulgan-Tash (Kapova cave) with cave paintings of ancient man, which has at least 15 thousand years.   The paintings in Kapova cave, Russia's only and Eastern Europe cave paintings of Paleolithic times.    A number of drawings of the cave ahead of the same in Western Europe.

16:00    Free time in Ufa.

Breakfast    buffet.

09:00    Departure from Ufa.

Departure to the city of Krasnousolsk.

You can take a bathing suit.

Excursion around the sanatorium Krasnousolsk and in the virgin-Tyminski convent.

Krasnousolsky is a large Bashkir village, which is famous for its resort and place of the appearance of the Tabynsk icon of the Mother of God.    The glory of these places brought one of the most mysterious and revered Orthodox shrines – the Tabynsk icon of the Mother of God.    According to legend she was found on the stone near the salt source by the monks of the ascension the desert in the year 1597.    Soon, the icon began to work wonders, it was moved  to Ufa    but later was moved again to the monastery on the place of finding.    In this area there are several baths, including a Holy spring of our lady of Tabynsk.    The water in the healing springs is very cold, but those who want to plunge – more than enough.  In Krasnousolsky    you can swim in the mineral springs (temperatures of 16 degrees), you must take a bathing suit.    To be able to change.

Lunch   .

Travel to Sterlitamak.

Visit the Museum of stone named after Ivan Squina  in Sterlitamak   (paleontological collection) and visiting Shihan (low single  mountains   ).

Low isolated mountains near Sterlitamak formed 230-260 million years ago at the bottom of a tropical sea and represent an ancient coral reef.    Shikhany is invaluable to science, as are composed of the fossilized remains of ancient creatures.    With some luck on the Shihan you can find the perfect home samples for paleontological collections.

20:00    the hotel of economy class in the city of Sterlitamak.

Free time.

Breakfast    at the hotel.

08:00    Departure from Sterlitamak.

Moving to the village of Voskresenskoe.

Excursion in resurrection art gallery.

Founded in 1970 as the people's gallery at the initiative of the artists  of Moscow    – famous Russian artists, former art students of the Moscow special school of the Moscow state art Institute.    V. I. Surikov, evacuated during the great Patriotic war in 1941-1943, in the village of Voskresenskoe.    The idea of creating a gallery belongs to the Moscow artists-"voskresyntsi" V. A. Babycino (1926-2000) and R. A. Kobozeva (1927-1997).    Opened on 6 November 1971, 1979, branch of the Bashkir state art Museum im.    M. V. Nesterov.

A trip to the national Park "Bashkiria" (village  of Nugush   ).

Lunch   .

Water 2 hour boat trip on Nugushskoe the reservoir to the gorge where the views are spectacular.    While walking, passing the spurs of the mountain range, Baekto.

Interesting fact!    In the Bashkir epos Nugush is a legendary hero who was possessed of prowess and great strength.    He saved his people from the flood, kill the snakes, kill the baddies.    To provide his people with water, he cut a sword mountain, where the gushing river that bears his name – the Nugush.

Stay    on the banks of the reservoir.