Transnistria - Back in the USSR

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Transnistria - Back in the USSR

By Hi Moldova DMC

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Features

Free cancellation available
7h
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Selective hotel pickup
Multiple languages

Overview

Eastern Europe has never been easy: cultural diversity, ethnic conflicts, political tensions and very complicated history.
If you are bored with typical fancy architecture and monuments - then you definitely have to come to the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. Don't search it on maps - it doesn't officially exist, but it really exists!
How is that possible? Read first sentence)))

Here you can find anything you want: Painted goldish Lenin statues, unique plastic money, Russian military bases, huge Turkish fortress or biggest vodka museum in Europe. Transnistria can easily amaze you!

Feel in Transnistria like at home because local people are very nice and friendly.

So, enough to read articles and somebody's reviews about Transnistria. It's time to go there!

Activity location

Tighina Military Cemetery
- Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
- Bender, Moldova

Meeting/Redemption Point

Tighina Military Cemetery
- Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
- Bender, Moldova

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Transnistria - Back in the USSR in Multilingual

7h
Opening hours: Wed 10:00 am-5:00 pm
English

Pickup included

Travellers

Languages available

Price details

NZ$521.54 x 1 AdultNZ$521.54

Total

Until Tue, 31 Mar

What's included, what's not

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Professional guide
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Return transfer
Food and drinks
Souvenir photos

Know before you book

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialised infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel

Activity itinerary

Tighina Military Cemetery

First, stop after crossing the border. Tighina Military Cemetery.. This cemetery contains the graves of soldiers of many countries. In front of the monumental entrance, there stands a magnificent statue of General Potemkin, the lover-some say the husband-of Catherine the Great, who captured Bender fortress from the Ottomans.

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the capital of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). It is a beautiful, modern and hospitable city on the banks of the Dniester River. Every year it becomes more elegant and more comfortable as for the citizens as well as for the guests of the region. The city pays attention to improving the appearance of buildings and streets and infrastructure development, new places appeared recently for recreation for adults and children and for sports. Tiraspol is a city always open for tourism and travel. Lunch in the atmospheric cafe "Stolovka USSR", in the Soviet style. Lunch is optional, at the request of the guests.

Bender

Bendery is an ancient marvellous city of Pridnestrovie on the right bank of the Dniester River (PMR. History of the city is closely intertwined with the modernity. The city centre is very picturesque, where the quarters are primarily buildings of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. There are many historical and architectural monuments in the city, the pearl of the city is the Bendery Fortress.

Bendery Fortress

1h
Admission ticket not included

OPTIONAL We will visit the Bender Fortress, located on the right bank of the Dniester in the city of Bender. The Fortress is an architectural monument of the XVI century. Its construction started in 1538 after the town became part of the Ottoman Empire.

House of Soviets

Unlike many of the buildings of the Stalinist empire in the republics of the former USSR, this House of Soviets retained all its rich decoration and Soviet symbols. Today, the building keeps its original function and serves as a home for city authorities – the Council of People’s Deputies and local administration.

Green Market Center

Green Market is a landmark of the city, one of the most comfortable and well-equipped markets in Europe. It provides a wide range of food and industrial products. The vegetable market in Tiraspol has more than 220 years of history, during which its infrastructure has fundamentally changed. Today it is a modern shopping complex with air-conditioned rooms, lifts and travelators, ground and underground parking, an irrigation system in the hot summers and heated tents in the winter.

The Tank Monument

On the other side of the square is Memorial of Glory with a T-34 tank and a gold-domed chapel designed by Harry Fayfermaher (1942-2002). Buried here are liberators of Moldavia who fell in 1944 and the defenders of Pridnestrovie who protected from the troops of nationalistic Moldova in 1991-1992. Next to it is the monument to soldiers-internationalists who died in Afghanistan. Near the bridge are Francois de Wollant’s public garden and the Pridnestrovian Alley of Glory with the monuments to Catherine II and Francois de Wollant.

The Suvorov Monument

The hallmark of Tiraspol is the monument to Alexander Suvorov with which the grateful descendants immortalised the memory of their city founder. The monument was inaugurated over 40 years ago, on November 23, 1979, on the eve of great commander’s birthday celebration. The authors of the 9-meter bronze statue were brothers Vladimir and Valentin Artamonov, while the monument design was performed by architects L. Druzhinin and Yu. Chistyakov.

Location

Activity location

Tighina Military Cemetery
- Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
- Bender, Moldova

Meeting/Redemption Point

Tighina Military Cemetery
- Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
- Bender, Moldova

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