General Director/owner – Natalie Kalachinskaya:
I think there is nothing in the world like travelling!
Probably, that is why my hobby has become my profession at one time.
18 years ago I opened my own tourist bureau. And as far as it is surprising, it is still alive and successful!
Now my company’s turnover is 20 000 tourists per year. And up till now I am thrilled to meet every new visitor – would he like the tour program? How does he like the hotel accommodation my managers chose for him? Has he accomplished all his points during this business trip?
The most exiting in my job are the moments when after some time I receive congratulations and the words of gratitude and acknowledgment from my customers in different countries of the world. When my guest or partner come up again with the request “I arrive next month, please arrange my visa and hotel…” For me it means that previous time we’ve met your expectations. Thank you that you appreciate the work we do and you trust my company over again.
Vladivostok, where I live, is a wonderful city. The edge of Russia, from where the morning starts for the whole country. Thanks God, now the region is safe for visitors. Especially I like Vladivostok in autumn, when taiga is picturesque in red and yellow, still warm sea invites to the beach, remote islands and fishing. This time of the year usually celebrate many festivals – rock, film, folklore, and the sea is colored with regatta sails and the hotels are full of guests.
We operate individual and group tours in Russia – from cold Kamchatka to beautiful Saint-Petersburg and Moscow, as well as to the other countries of the former USSR. If you do not see a package that interests you, please email us – we can easily customize the trip for you! Have you decided already where you spend your vacation?
Have a blessed day, Greetings from Russia!
Natalie Kalachinskaya
Vladivostok
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Did you have a feeling that, driving in a car on the way down the main avenue of the city you will fall... into the ocean? Have you inspected the underground tunnels dug under the city center and connecting the key administrative and military facilities? Are you puzzled which side to sit beside the driver in a taxi, and wondered whether the product of the Russian automobile industry, as overseas miracle? Have you eaten fresh dived scallop right on the boat? No? So you've never been in Vladivostok - the capital of Primorsky Area, a young and very fast-growing city in Russia.
Vladivostok is the main city in Russian Far-East and one of the most beautiful towns all over Russian Far-East, the biggest sea-port located on the Pacific Ocean shore. On July 2nd 1860 the first settlers landed here and established military post to defend Russia from its East side.
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Originally built as a fortress, Vladivostok has grown, got a status of porto-franco, and accepted thousands of immigrants, businessmen, and just deadbeats, mixing East and West in the small town on the hills of the former powerful Asian empire Manchuria. In April 1880 Russian outpost officially was got town rank. In the last quarter of 19th century around the shores of the “Golden Horn Bay” and on the nearest islands the first defense structures and coast gunnery battery were built. In 1889 Vladivostok gained the sea military fortress rank.
In 1922 warmly welcoming free port closed its administrative borders for foreigners as well as for the most of Russians, as it housed a number of secret objects of the Soviet Union. In 1992 after breakdown of Soviet Union Vladivostok was officially opened.
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Today our city is an open port, and a terminus of the Great Transsiberian railroad again, having 17 foreign embassies, being situated on the border with four countries, having sister-cities in different states (for example, Juno, San Diego, Tacoma in the USA, Niigata, Akita and Hakodate in Japan, Dalian in China, Manta in Ecuador, Wonsan in DPRK).
Being a cultural center of the region Vladivostok will impress you with a number of various theaters, mixture of Oriental and European architecture, historical museums, picture galleries, aquarium, and different symbolic of a sea port – the main outpost in the Russian Far East.
In 2012 Vladivostok will become the place where the summit to be held in Asian-Pacific economic cooperation (APEC). Russian government has assigned huge assets for the construction works. Two bridges will be constructed: the first one is over Bosfor East Bay to Russian Island, the second one: over the Golden Horn Bay, new airway infrastructure, highways, hotels and other facilities. Every day you can see how the face of region center is changing for the better. The workers do their job by day and night.
You can have a nice rest at the seashore of Vladivostok and some islands nearby during all the summer and first half of autumn. Sun shines bright, sand beaches are full of relaxing people, clear and warm sea brings you a lot of good impressions about your vacation or business trip to Vladivostok. In addition to rest near the sea you can visit HankaLake, a border between China and Russia. There are a lot of animals, birds and fishes included in Red Book which live in Hanka area of Primorye. Gavan-tourcenter invites you to make a tour around Vladivostok, the most unusual and dynamic city in the Russian Far-East.
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If you come to our city either for business or tourism purposes, we will be glad to see you to show you everything the best, and the most interesting that can be found, watched and tasted here: from the boat trip around the Golden Horn bay to journey by Transsiberian railroad, which tracks end in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, from the night life of the city to the ecological tours in the reserves.
Vladivostok and Primorskiy region tours are available in the DESTINATIONS section of our site. Vladivostok tours are available for tourist groups, arriving to our city by plane or railway. For tourist groups arrived by sea cruise liners these tours are also available.
If you are not interested in the tour packages, you can ask us for any individual program of your choice using booking tour form atour site or we can offer you a number of services that can make your trip comfortable and unforgettably exciting.