Sights and entertainment of Yeysk and what to see

There are few significant historical or cultural attractions in Yeisk, but there are plenty of activities for the rest period. There are several museums, amusement parks with attractions, a water park, a dolphinarium, an aquarium, a crocodile zoo and a bunch of different entertainment. In the high season, concerts of Russian pop and pop music stars are held at the local stadium next to the railway station.

If you want to visit really interesting sights, you will have to go to more distant places with an excursion or on your own. Excursions are offered throughout the Krasnodar Territory, in Rostov-on-Don, Crimea, Adygea, Abkhazia. But given the remote location of the resort, you need to be prepared for long journeys. In this regard, it is better to choose as long excursions as possible, even multi-day ones, otherwise you will simply spend most of the time of the excursion tour on the road. Here are the prices to guide the most popular excursions (price per adult/children):

• Sightseeing tour of Yeisk-500/450r.
• Boat trip to the Yeisk spit and the island of seven winds-500/400R.
• Rest on The Spit Dolzhanskaya and sea walk-700 / 600R.
• 3-day tour to Crimea - 10900/10500r.
• Gornaya Adygea - 2200/2100r.
• Mountain Caucasus (P. Mezmay and Guamka)- 2200/2100r.
• Therapeutic mud of Khan's Lake-700/650R.

When buying, specify what is included in the price, because usually in addition to the cost of the tour itself, you will have to pay a lot for admission to the sights and other additional costs.

You can buy excursions from distributors on the street, especially a lot of them work on the embankment and pedestrian streets of Sverdlov and Lenin.

Of the local attractions and entertainment that you can visit in Yeisk on your own, we recommend that you first pay attention to the following:

• Local History Museum
• Poddubny Museum
• Sverdlov and Lenin pedestrian streets
• Yeysk embankment and Seaside Park
• Shark Reef Aquarium
• Yeisk Dolphinarium
• Yeisk spit and the island of seven winds

And now more about each of the attractions and entertainment of Yeysk with an indication of their opening hours, the cost of visiting and ways to get to them:

Poddubny Museum

The famous and invincible wrestler Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny lived the last years of his life in Yeisk, died and was buried here in 1949 at the age of 77. That is why the museum about his life and career is open in Yeisk. It is not very large, but the exhibition is informative and will be interesting for a wide range of tourists. Inside are his personal belongings, photos, awards and even handwritten texts and poems. It is better to visit the museum in the form of an excursion, which takes 30-40 minutes, and if you just go to inspect the exhibits, it will not be very interesting.

Local History Museum

The yeisk Museum of local lore named after V. V. Samsonov is a small traditional museum of local lore. It consists of only two halls dedicated to the history of the region. Much attention is paid to the war period, and an exposition dedicated to famous people of the city is widely presented. In general, you will spend 10-20 minutes on an inspection without an excursion and you will not learn anything particularly interesting, so we recommend ordering an excursion escort.

Seaport Museum

The seaport of Yeysk is a city-forming enterprise, because the city itself was founded in the first half of the XIX century as a major seaport. A small departmental museum tells about the history of the port and the city. It is not kept in the best form and does not work regularly, but it is free. It is definitely worth a visit if you are nearby.

Yeisk Art Museum

The exhibition presents works by local artists, mainly landscapes and Paintings, there is also a collection of icons, stamps and other printed products. The exhibition is constantly updated, so you can visit the museum at least every year.

Shark Reef Aquarium

This is an aquarium with classic large aquariums, not tunnel. There are underwater inhabitants from all over the world, there are even small sharks, the contact zone with turtles is especially interesting. It is inferior in size and variety to large oceanariums, as, for example, in Adler, but if you have not been to such places before, you should definitely go here with the whole family. And, by the way, unlike other oceanariums, a visit to this one provides excursion support.

Yeisk Dolphinarium

This is an open-air Dolphinarium, performances take place in the open-air pool. There are classic entertainment performances with bottlenose dolphins, Far Eastern beluga, sea lion and Navy SEAL. Dolphin therapy sessions (swimming with dolphins) are available for an additional fee.

Nemo Water Park

This is an open-air water park (under the open sky), considered the best on the coast of the Sea of Azov. There are many slides for adults and older children, a children's area, swimming pools, cafes, in general, everything is like in other water parks. But, perhaps, its main Plus is not crowded. Even at the peak of the season, there are no huge queues for the slides, so you can safely ride as much as you want.

Yeysk Embankment

This is the main walking area for tourists and, together with the Seaside Park, the most "Party" place. During the day it is relatively quiet here, but in the evening attractions, restaurants, tourist shops, bars and discos begin to work, street artists show performances and artists work. And, by the way, from here you have the best views of the sunset.

Seaside Park

This is the most popular amusement park among tourists, because it is located in the epicenter of the tourist area and along the embankment of Kamenka Beach. We can say that this is the most "Party" place where you can spend the evening. Here are concentrated children's Entertainment, several extreme attractions, a ferris wheel, restaurants and cafes, and much more.

Poddubny Park

This is the largest park in Yeisk, but it is not a park for walking along green alleys among plants, although they are here, but above all a place for entertainment. In the park there are many attractions and entertainments ranging from prize shooting galleries to extreme carousels only for adults, there is a mini-zoo, pavilions with goods for tourists and souvenirs, restaurants and cafes. Here you can also visit the Poddubny museum, his grave and Monument.

You can visit the park in the afternoon and evening, but the fun begins after 18 hours, when tourists and locals flock here. By the way, the Poddubny Park is a little less popular among tourists than the seaside amusement park, and the prices for some entertainment here are correspondingly slightly lower.

Amusement park near the Central Beach

Near the main entrance to the central beach is a good amusement park. There is a good selection of children's attractions, there is a ferris wheel, a rope park, virtual reality, a 10D cinema!!! For individual attractions, prices here are even cheaper than in the other two amusement parks of Yeysk.

Gorky Park

This is a small green park for recreation and walking, and there is also a children's playground and several simple attractions shooting gallery, trampolines and locomotives. In addition, the park is notable for the fact that there is a city center of folk culture and an open area where festivals, holidays and other mass events take place. And here you should look at the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael and the free mini-zoo with him.

Sverdlov and Lenin pedestrian streets

In Yeisk there is a pedestrian zone "Yeisk Arbat", although it is located somewhat away from the tourist area and the beach. Despite this, it is worth a visit, especially since there is a museum of local lore and Gostiny Dvor. In summer, the pedestrian part is decorated with fountains and plants, along the streets there are boutiques and tourist shops, electronics stores, excursions are sold. In general, this is a pleasant place for a walk, and at least once during the rest it is worth coming here.

Gostiny Dvor

This is an iconic point of Yeysk, and one of the few architectural and historical attractions. The building of the courtyard was built in the middle of the XIX century as the central place of the city Trade. What is noteworthy, architecturally it was a smaller version of the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg. After a century and a half, this place was rebuilt many times, but it remained the main trading platform: there is a central market, many small shops and shops, boutiques. On the side of Sverdlov and Lenin streets, Gostiny Dvor is surrounded by a pedestrian zone, and several other historical buildings can be seen in the vicinity.

Yeisk spit and the island of seven winds

Yeisk sandbar and Island - this is the only natural attraction in Yeisk, not counting the sea and beaches, of course. The Spit is a continuation of the Yei Peninsula, and was once one with the island, but in 1914 as a result of a strong hurricane it was washed away, and now nothing remains of it, although part of the Yei Peninsula is still called the spit.

But the island of seven winds, aka Green Island or. Yeiskaya spit is still a very attractive tourist destination. It is surrounded by clean sandy beaches, and in the middle there is an estuary (Salt Lake) with therapeutic mud. For a complete idyll and resemblance to a real uninhabited tropical island, only palm trees along the shore are missing.

Monument Yeisk Patriot

From the point of view of entertainment, this is not a very interesting attraction, but an important landmark point for a landmark and a historical landmark. This is a military armored boat called "Yeisk Patriot", the money for the construction of which was collected by local residents. It was launched at the end of the war in 1944, but managed to pass more than 5 thousand kilometers, transporting ammunition, evacuating the wounded and at the same time conducting hostilities. He took part in the liberation of Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava and other Russian and European cities. The boat remained in operation until the 60s, after which it was decommissioned and almost given up for scrap. And again, thanks to the efforts of the residents of the city, it was restored and equipped with a monument, which was inaugurated in 1975.

Monument to aviators and Su-17 aircraft

This is another landmark place for Yeisk, because the city is inextricably linked with aviation, because since 1915, the Yeisk higher military aviation institute has been operating here for almost a century. The place is not particularly spectacular and interesting, but if you walk nearby, you can look at the monument and the plane, they are next to each other.

Monuments in Yeisk

During walks around the city, in addition to the above-mentioned most iconic monuments, you can meet more than a dozen remarkable ones. For example, there is a monument to Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Bondarchuk, the founder of Yeisk, Prince Vorontsov, Vladimir Vysotsky. There are quite unusual, for example, a monument to Varenik on the embankment. Of course, it makes no sense to specifically look for and inspect these monuments, but they will be a good addition if you pay attention to them during walks.

Khan's Lake

In this area of the Krasnodar Territory there are many estuaries with healing mud, and the most therapeutic of them is the salty Khan Lake. The mud mined in it and the small lakes around it are called Yeisk medicinal mud, and are even sold in local shops. They are also used for mud treatment in the sanatorium "Yeisk". But the purchased dried mud does not have completely the same healing properties as fresh, so it is best to visit the lake itself.

This is a fairly large lake with a maximum size of 16 by 7 kilometers, but in summer it decreases significantly in size, almost dries up. Its depth does not exceed one meter. In addition to mud, it is also interesting because it is a protected area, which is home to 14 species of red book Birds, grows about 700 species of medicinal plants.

The lake can be visited independently by car or with a tour. On the shores of the lake there are several craters, from where locals and tourists extract dirt for self-treatment on the spot or collect it for future use. It can also be mined anywhere under the salt crust, but you need to dig a hole to get to the black muddy mud. Apply it yourself should be with caution: watch the state of Health and the reaction of the body.