Soviet Tours

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's the #Ekranoplan! See it with your own eyes on our trip to #Dagestan at soviettours.com/dagestan

Happy Victory Day from Almaty! The eternal triumph of the #USSR over the nªzi beasts belong to all #Soviet people and ethnicities: Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, Tuvins, Buryats, Armenians, Ossetians, Russians, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Kalmyks, Chuvash, Yakuts and each of the180+ ethic groups inhabiting the endless territory of the bygone Soviet Motherland. No one can monopolise this sacred victory. No one should abuse this common memory to justify a war of aggression and crimes against humanity. #NOTOWAR WWW.SOVIETTOURS.COM

TUVA | soviettours.com/tuva Traditional Tuvan throat singing as seen in a #Soviet-era documentary about the Republic of Tuva and its people. Travel to #Tuva with #soviettours and unveil a fascinating land of steppes, deserter and mountains where shamanic rituals, nomadic roots, horse culture and #USSR heritage come together.

USSR | soviettours.com Soviet kids painting Soviet apartment blocks in the heydays of the #USSR. What most people (but not us) perceive today as grey and drab was modern, radiant, and full of hope: a not-postcard-like postcard of a different future that now lies in the past. One of the most common feelings while travelling in the former #SovietUnion is, indeed, that sense of being amongst the ruins of a future humanity that in the end never was. Discover the past, present, and future of the fifteen former Soviet republics, from Estonia to Moldova, from Tajikistan to Georgia, on a cultural trip with #soviettours at SOVIETTOURS.COM

Serbia • soviettours.com/yugoslavia The 10m tall and 17m long "Courage" #spomenik honouring the memory Cacak Partisan Detachment illuminated by a lighting storm during our recent #Yugo-heritage tour we organised in collaboration with Roberto Conte / Il Conte Photography. Visit it with #soviettours at SOVIETTOURS.COM Video shot by our guest Irina Petrova.

Tuva | soviettours.com/tuva The mesmerising sound of the khoomei (Tuvan throat singing) recorded for a #Soviet-era documentary film about the Tuvan ASSR. Travel to #Tuva with #soviettours and lose yourself in the mystic atmospheres of this remote patch of Northern Asia. Info and bookings at info@soviettours SOVIETTOURS.COM/TUVA

Caucasus • soviettours.com/caucasus Down the memory lane to the wild post-Soviet 90s in the #Caucasus: years of chaos, conflict, political turmoils and unique musical trends… Enjoy the track and travel to the post #SovietCaucasus with @soviet_tours at SOVIETTOURS.COM PS. These three won’t be the guides, alas.

A raw drone footage from our ongoing #Baikal and #Buryatia group tour 🤩

Siberia • soviettours.com/siberia Winter season in Soviet Siberia be like. Excerpt from a 1976 Soviet tv film on #Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia. Visit post-Soviet Siberia with #soviettours at soviettours.com/siberia 🐻❄️🇷🇺 #siberia #sibirien #siberian #wintertrends #winterreise #reizen #reisen #voyager #wanderlust #afar #snow #winter #russia #russie #russland #soviet #sovjet #sowjet

#Nature — soviettours.com/nature The mesmerising intro theme of “In the Animal World”, a #Soviet tv program dedicated to zoology and wildlife research. Visit the many national parks of the former #USSR at soviettours.com/nature

Adolf Hitler and a few other top Nazi officials gaily sharing a fine example of German confectionary art: a geopolitical cake featuring a rather detailed map of the Caspian Sea and its riparian lands. This special gâteau was crafted to celebrate the Third Reich’s plan to conquer the strategic oilfields of Soviet Azerbaijan, a vital target to fuel the success of Operation Barbarossa. Well, things didn’t go down as expected as Hitler’s disillusioned ambitions were thwarted by the heroic defence and counterattack of the Red Army. This over-sugared meal was the only piece of Soviet Caucasus Nazi Germany would ever get its blood-soaked hands on. #adolf #germany #ussr #cake #cakeart #torte #lecker #caucasus #redarmy #indigestion

Oil baths in Soviet Azerbaijan > soviettours.com/azerbaijan #oil #oilbath #petrol @teslamotors

Soviet Freddy Mercury #freddymercury #soviet

#Chechen Traditional Song from Pankisi - an excerpt from a video shot by @soviet_tours’ founder @gianluca_pardelli in the #pankisigorge > soviettours.com/pankisi

And after #Almaty, #Yekaterinburg, #Moscow and #Volgograd, our livestream walks have brought us to #Kyiv | #Kiev. Today our clients enjoyed a terrific 2-hour livestream walking tour around the capital of (post) #SovietUkraine with #Mila, our local guide in the city, and Eleonora (@painderoute), our splendid moderator and master puppeteer behind this new project of ours. Feedbacks were über-positive and we can’t wait to see travellers returning to physically explore #Ukraine and the former #EasternBloc on our tangible multi-day tours at soviettours.com In the meantime, while we wait for #covid to be extirpated by #sputnikv, #pfizer and other vaccines, we invite you all to attend our next virtual walks across and beyond the former #USSR. The list of upcoming destinations includes: #Grozny, #Tbilisi, #Yerevan, #Minsk, #Tiraspol, and even #Damascus!

Today's livestream walk around post-Soviet #Almaty with Dennis Keen was a blast! We enjoyed every minute of it and so did our audience of interested travellers who asked many stimulating questions during Dennis' gallivanting across his adoptive city. Thanks a lot to Eleonora Sacco for the moderation. Reserve your slot now at only 25€ per device on our upcoming livestream tours to #Yekaterinburg, #Kyiv, #Minsk, #Tbilisi, #Grozny, #Volgograd, #Tiraspol, #Yerevan and #Damascus > soviettours.com/soviet-walks

Dear Passengers, our train is arriving in the Hero City of Moscow, capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Excerpt from Love and Privileges (1989).

Soviet Minsk