Sightseeing bus tour of Samara "Discover your Samara" we get acquainted with Samara, its sights, climb Tsarev Kurgan, admire the Volga River from the observation decks. Check-in at the hotel.

Kuibyshev - chronicles of the reserve capital. Visit to Stalin's Bunker. In the autumn of 1941, the rear city of Kuibyshev became the center of the country's political life. By the decision of the State Defense Committee (GKO), our city was designated the reserve capital of the USSR. The property and personnel of foreign embassies, which had their residences in Moscow, began to be urgently exported here. Almost simultaneously, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, a number of People's Commissariats and headquarters, as well as many defense enterprises also moved to us. Nowadays, most of us only know from school textbooks what happened that disturbing autumn. At that time, Kuibyshev, compared with Moscow or Leningrad, could well be called a patriarchal hinterland. And so imagine the shock that ordinary citizens experienced when, quite unexpectedly for them, high–ranking leaders from the capital, led by the "all-Union headman" M.I. Kalinin, famous Moscow artists, writers and composers, factory specialists, but most importantly, hundreds of foreigners who were for a provincial city, suddenly began to settle in neighboring neighborhoods. very rare. During the summer and autumn of 1941, the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, the Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, the All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra and other world-famous art groups were evacuated to Kuibyshev. When a vacation is approaching, sometimes you want to break up: mountainous Dagestan beckons, and the lights of Baku, and Yerevan is certainly interesting. But time and money are limited, you have to choose one thing, and then, perhaps, regret the missed opportunities. In this regard, the Peoples' Friendship Ethnopark in Samara is unique: in one tour you can get acquainted with the architecture of several republics and countries, learn about the way of life and the history of the different peoples who inhabit the Samara Region.

Let's start our acquaintance with the art spaces of Samara from the classics - from the regional art museum. There are more than 35 thousand exhibits here, from the end of the XVI to the beginning of the XXI century, including works by masters Aivazovsky, Bryullov, Repin, Shishkin, Kuindzhi.… The list of famous names can go on for a long time, so just take a note of the location and devote a few hours to the permanent exhibition. By the way, temporary exhibitions in the museum deserve no less attention: at one time, works by Chagall, Dali and Andy Warhol were exhibited here. We suggest moving from the classics to modernity, because this is how the word "modern" can be translated from French. The Samara Art Nouveau Museum, by the way, is the only one in the country located in a merchant's estate of the early twentieth century. This building itself is already an Art Nouveau exhibit. Both permanent and temporary exhibitions are equally strong here, and it is also often possible to see the works of Samara artists. The museum is also rich in events, so if you prepare in advance, you can easily get to lectures, concerts, walking and cycling tours and festivals.