TRIP TO SIBERIA – 2017

Look at the route on google maps

А post-release at the RusDeutsch webpage

The collection of participants’ essays

2 July Arrival to Tyumen
3 July Transfer to Tobolsk by bus (4 hours)

City-tour “Tsar exile and the Decembrists”

Stay at the hostel “Prisoner” (former prison)
4 July Visiting the Museum of Siberian Exile

Visiting the Center of German Culture of Tobolsk

Night transfer to Khanty-Mansiysk (7 hours)
5 July City-tour around Khanty-Mansiysk

Lecture by PhD Alexander Ivanov “Deportation of the Kalmyks to Khanty-Mansiysk region during the Great Patriotic War”

Visiting the Russian Germans’ Association of Khanty-Manisyks: presentation of Y.Papanova “Wolga Germans deportation to Khanty-Mansiysk in 1941-1942”, conversation with the head of the Association E.Kizner

Meeting with the witnesses of the Wolga Germans deportation in groups
6 July Visiting the Human and Nature Museum of Khanty-Mansiysk: presentation of the virtual museum “History of exile and repressions in Khanty-Mansiysk region in 1920-s – 1950-s” by the Department of History

Lecture  by PhD Tatiana Moldanova “The Kazym Rebellion’s suppression of 1933 in memory of the indigenous people of Khanty”
7 July Trip to Lorba

Transfer to Nyagan: presentation of Natalia Kryukova “History of special resettlements of Oktyabrskiy district of the Ugra region”

Meeting with local activists of the NGO “Justice” and the repressed
8 July Trip to Oktyabrskoye, meeting with the special resettlers

Trip to Peregryobnoye
9 July 10 am – 7 pm – sailing to Khanty-Mansiysk
10 July Transfer to Surgut (4 hours)

Visiting Surgut Museum of Local Lore

 

Meeting the NGO “Our Memory”

Discussion with a representative of the organization “The Russian Spirit” standing for installation of the monument to Stalin

9 pm – take train for Novy Urengoy
11 July 10 am – arrival to Novy Urengoy, a bus for Nadym (4 hours)

Visiting the Exhibition on the Construction 501 at the local museum
12 July Field trip to the GULAG barracks and remains of the camp
13 July Visiting the Arctic Research Cente

4 pm – departure for Novy Urengoy, 10 pm – train for Surgut
14 July 1 pm – arrival to Surgut

Departure of participants