Lena - one of the ten greatest rivers of the earth, its length (4400 km) among the rivers of Russia, it ranks third. In the middle reaches the channel width reaches 15 km, in the lower reaches - 20-25 km. Lena flows into the Arctic Ocean (the Laptev Sea), therefore it is chained with ice shell more than a meter thick for seven months of the year, flood begins in the second half of May
Lena has no dams, no hydroelectric power stations, no dams, and the beautiful river flows along the natural channel, like millions of years ago . Amazing landscapes, Lena cheeks, Lena Pillars, rich flora and fauna, original culture of the ancient people all this can amaze the most experienced traveler . Lena cruises attract a variety of forms of recreation: comfortable accommodation on board the ship, walking through the taiga, fishing, climbing the heights of the famous Lenin Pillars . The navigation season of the tourist season on the Lena River lasts from June 1 to September 25 .
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What to see or stop on the way
Lena cheeks are located in the Irkutsk region, but, despite this, are included in many cruise programs starting from Yakutsk . The Lena Valley on the section from the mouth of the river Ichery to the mouth of the Vitim River deep cuts into the rock - for several kilometers , steep slopes rise on the banks . Below with . Chastinsky begins a roll called "The Devil's Path", behind which the river bed makes several sharp turns . Three huge orange-red rocks, abruptly breaking into the river, tightening the channel into a narrow one - in places up to 700 m - a meandering gorge . These are the famous Lena cheeks .
The first cheek is located on the right bank, this The rock is about 1 km long in the shape of a horseshoe. The second is at right angles to it on the opposite canopy bank. Between the first and third cheeks on the right bank is the Ponomarev's drop, along which one can climb to the top of the third cheek. By quiet weather, the local rocks spoil their guests with a unique natural phenomenon - a repeated echo.
Drunk Bull
At 6 km from the cheeks, 3 km from the mouth of the Karpachikha River on the left bank there is an impressive rock - Drunken Bull. This site is one of the most dangerous on the Lena: the riverbed here drops sharply (to 200 m) and makes turns almost at right angles. The name of the rock is explained by the fact that it looks like a bull drinking water
The parking lot of Lipaevsky Island is located at the mouth of the Vitim River, one of the largest tributaries of the Lena.
Peleduy
Behind the island of Maly or Kazanovsky, the settlement of Peleduy opens, founded in 17 at . Its name it received from the left-bank tributary of the Lena, which forms a deep-water bay at the confluence . Peleduy - river village . Here the largest on Lena maintenance base with a floating dock . Below the picturesque island of Romanov, Lena enters the gorge . On the left bank, on the rock there is a unique monument "Mother Yakutia" - a figure of a woman holding a mirror ball in her upraised hand, reminiscent of diamond . From Peleduya to Len ska 187 km . On this stretch of the road there are small villages of loggers on the banks of the Krestovsky, Peskovskaya, Hamra, Tereshkino . Lensk.
Lensk
Lensk - the administrative center of the Lensky ulus, located on the Prilensky plateau, on the left bank of the Lena, 840 km to the west of Yakutsk. The population of the city is about 27, 5 thousand people. Today Lensk is a major port for receiving and transporting goods for the diamond mining industry "Lenskiy equator."
Below the Glukhoy Island on the right bank there is the Alancha rock, and on the left, in the Dolgiy Range ridge, the Calancha rock is visible, beyond which the cliff of Hop-Chay (Hopychya) rises. A little below the cliff of Bell in Lena flows the river Ur (Urkh). This place is considered to be the conditional center of the Lena River, the river men even call it the "Lena Equator". On this site the river is very difficult to navigate. At 10 km from the mouth of the Ura river, you can see a magnificent 30-meter waterfall
Neryuktyai
Neryuktyai, Kullakh Island . Downstream, opposite the Mayachnoy Island there is a large village Neryuktya, the life of its inhabitants is not only connected with the river, they are engaged in vegetable growing and raise cattle . The descending ashore tourists can get acquainted with the life of the local population . A very remarkable place on the Lena - Kullakh Island . Here at the time the Lena Alloy Fair was founded . Every year on the island was collected from all over the Okhotny Okrug and peasants, merchants and was bargaining . In the 19th century a wooden church was built in the village on the island in the name of Nikolay Chudotvorets . Every spring flood waters flood the island of Kullach .
Olekminsk
The city of Olekminsk is the administrative center of the Olekminsky ulus, located in the south of the Prilensky plateau, 651 km south-west of Yakutsk. The sights of the city include: the Savior's Cathedral (1860), the chapel of Alexander Nevsky (1891). In 30-50 km from Olekminsk you can see ancient rock paintings.
After Olekminsk, the Lena river bed becomes almost straight, uniformly wide (3-4 km), only sometimes spilling widely (up to 12 km), while the river is deeply embedded in the Prilenskoe Plateau
Sinsky Pillars
Further the river crosses Khatyn-Tumul . The ground on a rocky rocky pass, and this makes it difficult for ships to pass, especially on small water . On the bank against a re-rolling village with the same name . @ Still further downstream, the Blue River flows into the Lena on the left-hand side - many travelers' places . Admire Sinsky poles, beauty and majesty not inferior to Lensky . Cliffs of rocks resemble a cyclopean staircase, gloomily rising above the verdure of the valley . The mouth of the river is usually shallow, and upstream blocked by numerous rapids, so you can get to the upper reaches only by helicopter or by the Vilyuysk tract . By high water up to the poles can be reached from Lena . At the mouth of the river Sinea archaeologists have discovered and investigated the sites of an ancient man . People have lived here for many centuries - from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age . The ancient drawings were preserved on the rocks .
Lena Pillars
Lena Pillars (like Sinsky) are geological formations that are steep, steep rocks composed of so-called Cambrian limestones . Time, wind and water, heat and frost gave the reddish-brown rocks stretching along the river for almost 80 km, bizarre and mysterious forms: towers, columns and pillars . Lena Pillars belong to the territory of the national nature park, bearing the same name .Some rocks of the Lena Pillars are monuments of archeology, they can see pisanits and ancient altars . Caves located in the rocky shores of Lena are of particular interest to tourists: some of them go deep into real labyrinths, stalactites . can be seen on the ceilings of underground halls There are caves with traces of the ancient man's stay - archaic drawings have been preserved on the walls .
Deering-Yuryakh
Parking Deering-Yuryakh . Below the Lena Pillars, the river Deering-Yuryakh flows into the Lena, which means "blue" in Yakutia stream ". The terrain here is especially picturesque due to the deep gorge that Deering-Yuryakh washed in rocky and friable rocks . For many years in this area archeologists have been excavating and organizing excursions for tourists . In 1982, numerous remains of the material culture of the ancient including the stone choppers . Scientists attribute these findings to the Lower (Early) Paleolithic Period . A cave was discovered near the excavation site, which served as a dwelling at a later time, in the Neolithic Age .
Pokrovsk
The town of Pokrovsk is the administrative center of the Khangalassky ulus, located on the left bank of the Lena, 80 km from Yakutsk . Before the Pokrovsky river bed is expanding, the flow is slowing down . Numerous islands are unstable in their location and size: they arise, increase, then blurred and disappear to fuss pull the other place on . navigation situation is further complicated by the fact that here is the roll Rassoloda . After his passing views of the high promontory of Tabaga . From the sights include: St. Nicholas Church in the village and a monument Kerdem D .Ordzhonikidze (he served a reference here in 1916-1917) . The city has a very interesting museum of local lore . G . . Ksenofontova .
Yakutsk
Outskirts of Yakutsk. "Yakut robbery" - the so-called section of the river between Tabaginsk and Kangalassi capes. Here the development of channel processes is especially rapid, the banks and streams are eroding. The speed of erosion of the coast is 10-15 m per year. For the Kangalassi cape on the right bank opens the so-called Sand Mountain. This amazing creation of nature is an outcrop, formed as a result of the erosion by the river of a high sandy terrace composed of frozen sands
Yakutsk - the largest settlement on p . Lene . Yakut jail played a huge role - Russia Polar regions, Chukotka, Kamchatka, Okhotsk coast, Kuril Islands and Alaska . In Yakutsk at various times lived political exiles: members of the uprising With . Razin, archers sent here by Peter I, schismatics, Decembrists . In the city of Rasp Several museums have been laid, including the Yakut Museum of the History and Culture of the Peoples of the North, the Museum of Music and Folklore of the Peoples of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Mammoth Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) .
Zhigansk
Zhigansk - administrative center Zhigansky ulus, is located on the left bank of the Lena in 764 km from Yakutsk. This is the first settlement after the crossing of the Arctic Circle. The historical museum should be noted from the sights of the village: @ Time, wind and water, heat and frost gave the reddish-brown rocks, the Lena Pillars, stretching along the river for almost 80 km, bizarre and mysterious forms: towers, columns and pillars.
Below the Lena Valley, the woody vegetation disappears, replaced by tundra mosses and lichens. It is interesting to look at the cliffs in the lower reaches of the Lena, in the Taba-Bastakh tract (Yakut "head of a deer"). Piles of rocks accumulated on each other form a kind of confluent stone rivers - kurums. At the top of the monolith walls are dismembered, striking imagination with a variety of fantastic reliefs.
Island Stolb
Island Pillar - huge, not like a pillar, but on a mound, a rock 104 m high, guarding the entrance to the ocean. The majestic Pillar is a rock residue, the river tore it from the Tuora-Sis ridge. At the top of the island from ancient times there was a sanctuary - a hill with a pole burned from the stones in the middle. On the pole as a sacrifice, cloths and ribbons were imposed, and coins were placed at the foot. The altar is still alive, every traveler who finds ships leaves something to return.
Tiksi
The town of Tiksi is the administrative center of the Bulunsky ulus, located on the coast of the Laptev Sea, 1702 km from Yakutsk
Tiksi - the sea gates of Yakutia . In fact, Tiksi consists of two separate towns connected by a 6 km long route: Tiksi-1 - civilian town and Tiksi-3 - military . In Tiksi is a very interesting museum of fine art and culture of the Arctic . He combined with the museum of local lore . s describes the history of Arctic exploration, the first Northern Expedition, the construction of Tiksi, as well as the nature of the region, the manners and customs of the local population .. All articles "Cruises"
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