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Transnistria - Back in the USSR

By Hi Moldova DMC
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is P 18,113 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • 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
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • Opening hours: Wed 10:00-17:00
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
P 18,112.65 x 1 AdultP 18,112.65
Total
Price is P 18,112.65
Until Tue, Mar 31

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Hotel pickup and drop-off
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    Professional guide
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    All taxes, fees and handling charges
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    Round-trip transfer
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    Food and drinks
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    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
  • Specialized 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

  • 15m
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

  • 2h
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

  • 1h
Bendery is an ancient marvelous city of Pridnestrovie on the right bank of the Dniester River (PMR. History of the city is closely intertwined with the modernity. The city center 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

  • 10m
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

  • 30m
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, elevators and travelators, ground and underground parking, an irrigation system in the hot summers and heated tents in the winter.

The Tank Monument

  • 20m
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

  • 10m
The hallmark of Tiraspol is the monument to Alexander Suvorov with which the grateful descendants immortalized 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

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    Tighina Military Cemetery
    • Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
    • Bender, Moldova

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Tighina Military Cemetery
    • Strada Zoia Cosmodemianscaia
    • Bender, Moldova

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