On September 3, the head of Rostourism, Oleg Safonov, at the round table of the Eastern Economic Forum 2015 proposed developing tourism at the Vostochny cosmodrome. He said: “On the basis of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region, it is possible to create a tourist facility, including one accessible to foreign tourists.” According to Safonov, cosmodromes can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and this uniqueness makes the facilities attractive to the tourism industry.
Roscosmos showed interest in this idea. Partly with the help of tourism, it is planned to compensate for the future loss of contracts with NASA.
There may indeed be interest in visiting such unique industrial sites as cosmodromes. According to one of the co-owners of the travel company, interest in educational tourism is great: hundreds of thousands of people have visited the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant over the past couple of years. Baikonur has no less potential; it can become the Mecca of Soviet history. During a recent visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the reason for the high interest: “because people want to see the process of launching spacecraft.”
The tourism opportunities of Baikonur are largely limited by the infrastructure (hotels) and the fact that the cosmodrome belongs to a foreign state. At the moment, tourism already exists at Baikonur, but it is expensive. For example, tours of the spaceport in Kazakhstan are offered to British citizens by the website SkyAndSpaceTravel.com. A six-day tour to observe the satellite launch costs 300 thousand rubles (£2,890) per person without the cost of a flight to Moscow, a week-long trip to observe the manned launch will cost 332 thousand rubles (£3,190) per person. Tours are not organized systematically, but on a one-time basis under contracts with enterprises involved in servicing launches. Without investment in hotels, developing tourism is extremely problematic. Tourists willing to pay thousands of dollars for the opportunity to watch the launch with their own eyes can only be accommodated in two hotels in Baikonur. On the days when a new crew is sent from the cosmodrome to the ISS, they are already completely full.
In 2017, the capital of Kazakhstan will host the world exhibition Expo 2017. 2-3 million guests are expected from more than 100 countries. Some people will want to visit, at that time, what is still the only cosmodrome in the world from where people are launched into space. In case of emergency, you can return to the familiar Soviet-era practice of allocating not rooms, but beds. Some organizations (TSENKI, Khrunichev Center) have their own hostels and hotels. Acting General Director of TsENKI Ranokhon Juraeva states that discussions of plans with the Kazakh side are already underway. After this, contacting tourism operators will begin.
At the moment, the Vostochny cosmodrome is being built in Russia. In the future, the cosmodrome in the Far East will give independence to space activities - the lease period for Baikonur is expiring. Including manned launches from Vostochny. Although the cosmodrome is located on Russian territory, the situation with tourism there is more complicated. Now all the efforts of the builders are devoted to work on the launch complex, the pace of completion of which is lagging behind. Housing is in the background. Vostochny does not yet have the developed transport infrastructure tourists need.
NASA is buying seats on Soyuz spacecraft for its astronauts. Each American launch brings Roscosmos about $70 million. NASA does not yet have its own ships to launch humans into space: the shuttles have already served their purpose and exist as museum exhibits. But that will change in the future: Commercial spacecraft from Boeing, SpaceX and other private players will be built, and the first example of the super-heavy rocket SLS - the family of launch vehicles that will carry the Orion spacecraft - will be built and launched after 2018. Roscosmos will compensate for the drop in demand by working more closely with space tourists, and also partly by organizing tours to cosmodromes.
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Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, USA
Kennedy Space Center is one of the main spaceports in the world. In terms of the number of launches per year, it is ahead of Baikonur. A rocket park and a museum complex with space attractions are open to visitors, but most of the territory is a secret facility, but outsiders can explore the surrounding area from the window of a branded bus. During the 1.5-hour tour, a garrulous guide tests passengers' erudition and talks about each building they see. There is only one stop - at the giant boathouse, where the largest (110 meters) and powerful launch vehicle on the planet, Saturn 5, stretches out to its full height. About once a month, another rocket is launched from Canaveral - you can watch it directly from the Center. The next one is scheduled for March 16 (Atlas V rocket).
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
A trip to Baikonur is perhaps the most accessible opportunity to see the launch of a spacecraft with your own eyes. As a rule, the tour lasts 3–4 days, and the program includes a sightseeing tour of the city of Baikonur. The main reason why tourists come here from all over the world is the opportunity to see the removal of the Soyuz launch vehicle from the assembly and testing building and its installation on the launch pad, attend the crew press conference and greet the cosmonauts on the way to the rocket and during an official report to the Chairman of the State Commission. The highlight is watching the launch of the ship, which soars into the sky with a roar just a couple of kilometers from the observation deck (at other cosmodromes they don’t allow you to get so close). The next manned launch to the ISS is scheduled for March 27.
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
This is the home launch site for the European Space Agency. Its convenient location relative to the equator adds an additional 460 m/s to take-off rockets. Several launch vehicles soar into the sky from the cosmodrome: heavy Ariana, medium-load Soyuz, and light Vega. Visiting the Guiana Space Center with its technical facilities and the cosmonautics museum and even seeing the launch of a spacecraft from a distance of five kilometers will be allowed for free - by prior agreement with the administration and subject to availability. If an agreement cannot be reached, you can watch the start from the beach and hills of the city of Kourou, located 15 kilometers away. The launch schedule is regularly posted on the official website - for example, the launch of Ariana with satellites on board should take place in the first quarter of 2017.
We invite you to visit the space harbor - the Vostochny cosmodrome.
An excursion to the museum has been organized for you, where the entire history of the previous cosmodrome and the village of Uglegorsk, which was once a small military town, is collected.
The tour lasts an hour, and everyone leaves the museum delighted, especially the children. Schoolchildren are also interested in rocket models, a descent module capsule, astronaut clothing and “space” food. All this is in the museum.
Then you will drive through the territory of the cosmodrome and see the scale of this project, the launch pad tower, and the workshops where spacecraft are assembled. Unfortunately, today it is not possible to visit the cosmodrome facilities directly, but seeing them from a distance of 500 m is an impressive sight.
The duration of the entire event is 10 hours, along the way we have prepared educational information and several interesting stops that you will enjoy.
2 hot meals a day and a comfortable bus are provided.
Plan of an excursion to the Vostochny cosmodrome
8.00 gathering of excursion participants
8.15 - departure to Tsiolkovsky
11.00 - arrival in Tsiolkovsky
11.00 - 11.30 passport control, lunch in a cafe
12.00 - 13.30 visiting the museum, taking photographs, purchasing souvenirs
13.30 - 14.30 travel through the territory of the cosmodrome, Tsiolkovsky
14.30 - 15.00 lunch
15.00 - 16.00 transfer from Tsiolkovsky - through Svobodny, Moskvitinsky Utes
18.00 arrival in Blagoveshchensk
The cost of the event is 3500 rubles per child and 6500 per adult.
Recently, excursions and tours around the Khabarovsk Territory, organized for children and teenagers, have become especially popular. With the help of such tourism, young residents of the region learn more about their small homeland, the potential of the region and its development through personal experience.
In addition, the peculiarity of such tourism is that it immediately affects the mind, soul and body of a growing person, said Victoria Komarovskaya, chief specialist of the department of analytical work and organization of tourism activities of the tourism department of the Ministry of Culture of the Khabarovsk Territory.
— Regular tourism and local history classes shape a person’s spiritual image, his character, life guidelines, attitude towards other people, his homeland, nature, and work. At the same time, there is an awakening of a sense of a beautiful, aesthetic attitude towards the world around us,” the specialist noted.
These are the tasks that regional tour operators set themselves when developing routes for children and teenagers, which come in various themes and directions. Thus, cultural and educational excursion programs, military-patriotic routes, as well as educational and career guidance tours are organized.
— Thus, children’s and youth tourism is a means of harmonious development of adolescents and young men in the form of recreation and socially useful activities. This is achieved through hiking, travel and excursions,” noted Victoria Komarovskaya.
Today, schoolchildren not only of the regional capital, but also of various regions of the region are involved in such tourism: Amursky, Verkhnebureinsky, Nikolaevsky, Sovetsko-Gavansky, as well as Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This allows us to get a complete picture of the development of the region. We present to you some tours that are popular among the growing population.
Tour to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur
Tours are carried out by a Khabarovsk company with the support of the administration of the Nikolaev municipal district. A system of subscriptions has been developed here, which are special sets of events for schoolchildren: museum classes, master classes, various excursions, quests and out-of-town trips.
The program lasts two days, not counting travel time. On the first day, schoolchildren, as part of a sightseeing tour of the city, will visit one of the very first Sovetskaya streets, the monument to G.I. Nevelskoy, city square, various memorials, Victory Square, St. Nicholas Church and many other attractions of the city.
Next in the program is a sightseeing tour of the halls of the Museum of Local Lore named after V.E. Rozova and watching a film about the history of Nikolaevsk. The children will also visit the Center for the Culture of Minority Peoples of the North and the interactive open-air complex “Nivskaya Estate”, where they can make a souvenir from fish skin, or take part in the search for the treasure of an old shaman.
The second day includes a visit to the farpost for the protection of the Amur region - the “Chnyrrakh Fortress”, a tour of the fish processing plant, an ethno-tour with immersion in the culture of the Nivkh people. On the third day, students go home.
A tour for a group of 10 people will cost 11,600 rubles, for a group of 15 – 10,300 rubles, for a group of 20 – 9,450 rubles. This price includes transport services, excursions, hostel accommodation, meals, entrance tickets and master classes.
Please note that transfer to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur and back is carried out independently and at your own expense. There are two options here: either by plane from Khabarovsk, or by bus to Komosomolsk-on-Amur, from where the tour participants go to Nikolaevsk on a “meteor”.
A round-trip air ticket will cost 19,310 rubles per person and 10,440 rubles for children under 12 years old.
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur
Tour "Khabarovsk - Amursk - Komsomolsk-on-Amur"
During the two-day bus tour, young Khabarovsk residents will have time to visit two cities: Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Amursk.
On the first day, the guys arrive in Amursk, where they are met by a guide and given a short sightseeing tour of the city. Next, participants go to the Botanical Garden. Children are taught about plants in a playful way and given various quizzes. In addition, the children are offered to plant a plant themselves, which they can later take home.
On the second day, there is an excursion to the ESKPO center of the KnAAZ plant, where the children are told about aircraft manufacturing, shown models and various exhibitions. Afterwards, a visit to the Python Zoo Center, which is home to leopards, bears, bers, roe deer, eagles, as well as a crocodile, snakes and spiders. Next, participants visit a shipbuilding plant, where they have the opportunity to see submarines, corvettes, and also learn the history of shipbuilding.
The age of the tour participants is from 8 to 18 years. Cost – 3900 rubles per person. Typically, a tour group consists of up to 40 people. The ticket price includes transfer, accommodation and meals. There are also separate tours to the Amur region, where participants are invited to take part in hikes throughout the region.
Tour to Sovetsko-Gavansky district
This is an interesting historical and educational route for children with visits to historical places along the G.I. Nevelsky and N.K. Boshnyak. The tours were developed by a Komsomol company, but they can be visited not only by children from the city of their youth, but also from the regional capital. The cost must be clarified with the tourism department of the Ministry of Culture of the Khabarovsk Territory.
Sovetskaya Gavan
Linguistic camps
Another area of activity of travel companies is the organization of linguistic camps in the region where children learn English and Chinese in a playful way using modern interactive technologies.
Thus, on the basis of the tourist complex “Zaimka” the language tour “ENGLISH VILLAGE” is held. Khabarovsk travel agencies are also organizing a children's educational camp under the “English Fun” and “English career focus” programs on the basis of the “Energetik” country health camp.
Shifts take place not only in the summer. So, for example, the next shift will be held from October 30 to November 5. The cost of the tour is 20,000 rubles. It includes accommodation, meals, and entertainment. But the main emphasis is on learning the language. The age of the shift participants is from 7 to 15 years.
Summer camps of local history
At the base of the camp named after. Oleg Koshevoy tour operators are organizing a children's camp with a tourism and local history focus called “Robinson”. Shift duration is 10 days.
Camp Robinson
The program includes rock climbing, shooting with airsoft weapons, sailing on catamarans and river expeditions, freerope, “Tourist School”, quest game “Gold Rush”, desmurgy and valeology, exercises, multi-race “Zarnitsa” and other camp events.
Another camp “S.P.E.C.N.A.Z.” for high school students with a military training program and a “young fighter course.” It is better to clarify the cost at the beginning of next year.
Programs for high school students
Tours are carried out in Khabarovsk and Komosomolsk-on-Amur with quests and master classes from leading entrepreneurs of the region. In close cooperation with the administration of the Verkhnebureinsky municipal district, the company is implementing a program for schoolchildren to visit the region of the Uralugol enterprise and the Bureinsky state reserve, located in the single-industry settlement of Workers' Village Chegdomyn.
— Tours to the Vostochny Cosmodrome
There are two program options. The first is Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Khabarovsk - Tsiolkovsky - Svobodny. On the first day, participants arrive from Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk, where they visit the KnAAZ EXPO Center on an excursion. For an additional fee you can visit the roller skating rink.
Afterwards, the participants return to Khabarovsk, where they take a tour of the confectionery factory and taste the products. Next - a sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the bridge over the Amur. From Khabarovsk, tour participants go to the cosmodrome by train. Upon arrival, there is a tour of the city of Tsiolkovsky, the Museum of Cosmonautics and the facilities of the Vostochny cosmodrome.
From there, schoolchildren go to the city of Svobodny, where they are given an excursion and return to Khabarovsk.
The cost of a tour in a group of 10 people is 8,700 rubles per person, for a group of 15 - 7,650 rubles. The price includes a hostel room, bus rental during excursions, escort in cities, meals, excursion services. Additionally, train travel to all cities on the tour is paid.
The second option will cost Khabarovsk residents less due to the fact that it excludes a visit to Komsomolsk-on-Amur from the program. Participants go straight from Khabarovsk to the cosmodrome by train. Upon arrival, there is a tour of the city of Tsiolkovsky, the Museum of Cosmonautics and the facilities of the cosmodrome. Then the participants travel to the city of Svobodny, where they conduct another excursion. And they leave for Khabarovsk.
The cost of the tour for a group of 10 people is 3,200 rubles per participant, for a group of 15 people – 2,700 rubles.
The price includes excursions, bus travel, meals. Rail travel is paid separately.
Vostochny Cosmodrome
— Tour « Komosomolsk-on-Amur is the industrial capital of the region"
Program for high school students. There are one-day and two-day tours.
The first option includes a sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the Gagarin Aviation Plant and the EXPO CENTER. Afterwards, participants are offered excursions to choose from: to the Local History or Art Museums, or to the Python Zoo Center. The cost of the tour for a group of 10 people is 2400 rubles per participant, from 15 – 2200 rubles. There is an additional charge for round-trip railway transportation.
"EXPO CENTER"
The second option also includes the above excursions. And on the second day, high school students will visit Amursk. The program includes an excursion to the botanical garden, greenhouse complex and Amur arboretum.
The cost of the tour is 3,800 rubles per person in a group of 10 participants and 3,600 rubles in a group of 15 participants. Round trip travel is also paid separately.
— Tour “Chegdomyn – the land of black gold”
The tour lasts two days. On the first day, participants are given a city tour by bus with a guide, as well as an excursion to a confectionery factory and a visit to Soya JSC, where high school students get acquainted with the organization and intricacies of work at agricultural enterprises. Then everyone leaves for Chegdomyn.
There, schoolchildren will have excursions to the mining and processing technical school, the Chegdomyn processing plant, and the Bureinsky-2 open-pit mine, where the business game “Getting a Job” is held. Next – a sightseeing tour to the village of New Urgal and departure to Khabarovsk.
The cost of the tour is 2800 rubles per person in a group of 10 participants and 2300 rubles in a group of 15.
— Program “Strategy and Business Development in Khabarovsk”
This program includes a visit to Soya CJSC, as well as business training with the head of the Khabarovsk branch of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Russia and a quest game.
The cost of the program is from 2250 to 2700 rubles per person.
Tours in Russia
This year, as part of the national program of children's cultural and educational tourism “My Russia”, 396 students from the Khabarovsk Territory will travel along 5 routes: “My Russia: Petrov City”, “Moscow - Golden Ring”, “Russian Estates. Literature”, “Crimea Culture for Children”.
Tours in Khabarovsk
City excursions include routes through historical and memorable places of the city, along the first street - Shevchenko, and park area. Travel agencies also offer excursions to museums, theaters, the regional philharmonic, kindergartens and schools.
In addition, during industrial excursions you can learn a lot about television centers, the development of small aviation, and fish hatcheries. An excursion to the confectionery factory will not leave anyone indifferent.
Country and nature excursions offer a closer look at the nature of the region. So, you can go to the Priamursky Zoo, the Bolshekhehtsirsky Nature Reserve, the Utes wild animal rehabilitation center, and the Sikachi-Alyan petroglyphs.
Costs and age restrictions can be clarified with travel companies in the regional capital.
Khabarovsk
It should be noted that in the Khabarovsk Territory, a total of 29 tour operators are engaged in organizing the recreation, recreation and employment of children, which offer 40 tourist routes and more than 100 excursion programs of cultural, educational, career guidance, military-patriotic, educational and sports orientation in the Khabarovsk Territory, Russia and abroad.
Currently, work is underway to include in the program of children's cultural and educational tourism “My Russia” for 2017 an ecological and educational route for children “The Dersu Uzala Path” with a visit to the cities of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
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Baikonur is the world's first and largest cosmodrome, located on the territory of Kazakhstan. And the Soviet secret services called it that, trying to confuse the “potential enemy.” The fact is that there really is a town in the country called Baikonur, but it is located about 350 km from the actual location of the cosmodrome, the village of Tyuratam. But this name has become generally accepted with the help of newspapers, radio and television.
From the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the first artificial Earth satellite and the first human flight into space were launched, manned spacecraft of the Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz series were launched. Orbital stations of the Salyut and Mir series, the reusable Energia - Buran system, interplanetary spacecraft and artificial Earth satellites.
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Excursion to Baikonur
Now tourists have a unique opportunity to take a tour of manned and unmanned spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In three days they will take a sightseeing tour of the cosmodrome, an excursion to the Gagarin Launch, and visit the Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, memorial houses of Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev.
They will also explore the launch pads and famous historical sites of the cosmodrome. For example, the Soyuz and Proton complexes, the Proton and RSC Energia installation and testing buildings.
Such “space tours” are carried out infrequently (like the flights themselves); applications must be submitted at least 2 months in advance. The approximate cost is around 800-1200 USD. Prices on the page are as of September 2018.
