Journey to the border with the "Wild Field" (Belev - Chekalin)

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Travel dates: January 18, March 1, 2025.

This is an opportunity to drive through the places where in the XVI - XVII century the Streltsy and Cossacks kept watch over the forest-steppe strip, from where nomads raided our state for many centuries.

After visiting two small ancient towns on the banks of the Oka River, Belev and Chekalin, with their strange streets and merchant houses, monasteries and temples, you will get acquainted with their rich history. Through interactive museum exhibitions, you will learn about the daily life of these settlements in bygone centuries, as well as about their heroic past

Why did they build a Large Zasechnaya line in the XVI century?
How did they serve on it and repel the raids of the Crimean Tatars in those turbulent years?
What exploits, centuries later, did the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army, as well as ordinary residents, perform during the Great Patriotic War?
What crafts and crafts were these lands famous for in peacetime?
Which city is the smallest in our country?

You will get an answer to these and many other questions by going on a Saturday trip that will envelop you in the peaceful atmosphere of beautiful provincial Russia.

The bus departs at 9.00 from the Tula Kremlin Tourist Information Center (Tula Kremlin, shopping malls, Pavilion 1)

Cost: 3000 rubles (age group 6+)

Phone numbers for recording: 8 (4872) 52-08-98, 8 (953) 995-85-91

9.00

Departure from Tula.Shopping malls, pav. 1;

9.00-11.00

Transfer from Tula to Belev

11.00-12.00

Excursion "Keeper of Time" (P.V. Zhukovsky Museum of Local Lore (114 K.Marx Street, Belev))

12.10-12.30

Sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery "Belev. A journey into the 19th century"

12.30-12.40