Soviet Epoch Isles

Itinerary: Minsk | Duration: 4 days/ 3 nights

Soviet Epoch Isles - Minsk - Belarus
Soviet Epoch Isles - Minsk - Belarus
  • Sightseeing tour of Minsk
  • The museum of the I Congress of the Russian Socialist Democratic Party
  • The museum of Sculpture of Z. Azgur
  • “Stalin (Stalin epoch) flats"
  • The museum of Great Patriotic War
  • The Galery of the outstanding Belarussian artist V. Shchemelev
  • “Khrushchov (N. Khrushchov epoch) flats"

DAY 1.

Arrival in Minsk. Check-in at a hotel.

Lunch.

Sightseeing tour of Minsk, including the main avenues (Independence avenue with - Victory square, Pobediteley avenue) and architectural monuments of the 17th - 20th cents (Upper Town with the St Spirit Cathedral, temples and monasteries and old streets of Trinity Suburb). Tourists will visit the «Isle of tears» and see the monument, that commemorates the soldiers who were perished in different times in different centuries, will see the Victory Monument, the National Library.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Time at leisure.

DAY 2.

Breakfast.

Visit to the museum of the I Congress of the Russian Socialist Democratic Party. Getting acquaintance with the history of the first communist leaders and societies on the territory of tsar Russia.

Visit to the museum of the Great Patriotic War.

Visiting families residing in "Stalin (Stalin epoch) flats". Lunch with a family.

Time at leisure.

Dinner in hotel.

Visit to the Opera and Ballet theatre or to a Concert Hall (typical Soviet epoch building which is considered to be the architectural monument of the Soviet epoch).

DAY 3.

Breakfast.

Visit to the Museum of Sculpture of Z. Azgur, the famous Soviet epoch sculptor.  The life,  activity, creative work (sculptures, monuments, busts to the well-known soviet statesmen and politicians, public figures, cultural workers) of the great author.

Proceeding to the Galery of the outstanding Belarussian artist V. Shchemelev, devoted almost all his multiple works to the Soviet people and events or visit to the estate and studio of the famous Belarussian artist, F. Yanushkevich, who dozens of years ago left Minsk for Rakov, a very small town not far from Minsk. Felix  Yanushkevich and his cultural heritage.

Visiting families residing in "Khrushchov's (N.Khrushchov epoch) flats". Lunch (or  dinner) with a family.

Time at leisure.

Dinner.

DAY 4.

Breakfast. Check-out

Departure.