Tours and excursions of Volgograd → Extended tours in Volgograd

One-day Stalingrad Battlefield Tour

One-day Stalingrad Battlefield Tour 

10.00 Sightseeing city tour "Hero-city Volgograd" with visit all sights including main war memorial Mamayev Kurgan (height #102.0). Duration 3 hours.

13.00 During the excursion you will also visit the last headquarters of the 6th German Army and a place of general-field marshall Friedrich Paulus's surrender in the basement of central department store - Univermag.

14.00 Grain elevator. During the Battle of Stalingrad, one particularly well-defended Soviet strong point was known simply as "the Grain Elevator" and was strategically important. This imposing building in the southern part of Stalingrad became a graveyard for hundreds of soldiers on both sides in September 1942 when the Germans tried to take it and in January 1943 when the Russians retook it.

15.00 Visit of the panoramic-museum "The Battle of Stalingrad" and exhibition "Weapon of Victory" at the open air. This is one of the biggest WWII museums in the world with hundreds of unique exhibits, including Sword of Stalingrad - the gift of British King George the VI, Vasily Zaitsev’s rifle and a huge panoramic canvas. We comment on the most interesting exhibits and answer your questions. The museum is closed on Mondays, like most museums in Russia, and will be replaced by another sight if you visit on a Monday. 

17.00 Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

In the evening we can recommend restaurants with Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Italian, Georgian cuisine, as well as steak houses with dishes cooked at open fire.

The price includes:

• transportation services;
• skilled tour guide-interpreter;
• all entrance tickets.