* We offer you a guided tour of the city, which will cover the most notable locations.: - an unusual chess City with a special status of an administrative-territorial entity. City Chess is often referred to as a "city within a city"; - monument symbolizing a tragic page from the history of Kalmykia and its people: monument to victims of political repression "Exodus and Return", - the "calling card" of the capital of the republic is the pagoda of Seven Days, it is the visible embodiment of the exit from samsara and the achievement of nirvana, - The Kurde prayer drum, filled with 75 million mantras, is considered the largest in Europe. We will also make a wish under the Golden Gates of Altn Bosch and walk along the central alley of Heroes to the picturesque Druzhba Park. The culmination of our acquaintance with Elista will be a visit to the main attraction of the city — it is rightfully considered the "Golden Abode of Shakyamuni Buddha": the largest Buddhist temple in Europe with an impressive statue of Buddha Maitreya. On the territory of the architectural complex there are 17 pagodas with bronze sculptures of the great Buddhist scholars of Nalanda, the Buddhist University of antiquity and the Middle Ages.