Attractions and entertainment in Togliatti - what to see on your own

Unfortunately, there are no significant historical or architectural attractions in Togliatti. Tourists here can visit several museums, including a very worthy Local History Museum, The Museum of the history of the city "heritage", the art and Museum of Modern Art, and the real tourist pride of the city - the Technical Museum. Sakharov, which comes even from other regions. In addition to these museums, there are several small departmental ones operating at enterprises, educational institutions or organizations, but they do not work stably on a schedule, and open their doors to visitors only after a preliminary call.

But Togliatti is convenient to use as a starting point for excursions and hikes in Samara Luka National Park and Zhigulevsky reserve, because you can get to it from here faster, and it is closer than Samara. Other attractions of the Samara region are also available from Togliatti, but most of them can only be accessed by their own transport. See more:

• Sights of Samara
• Sights of the Samara region

As for entertainment in Togliatti for tourists,the city has nothing to surprise. There is everything the same as in any major Russian city: cinemas, nightclubs, large shopping centers, there is a theater, a philharmonic, entertainment parks for children and adults. There is even a diving center that organizes training and diving in the Volga waters, especially interesting places of the flooded Old Town. Sometimes car races are held on the dirt Circuit of the ECC, as well as Christmas races on ice in the vicinity of the city. But there are no special entertainment specifically for tourists here, they are all standard, mainly focused on local residents. There is entertainment for children, but nothing special: there are amusement parks in shopping centers, a city amusement park (carousels, slides, a summer children's water park, etc.), a cart track. In summer there is a mobile zoo, circus Chapiteau.

And we also advise you to see ready-made excursions around Togliatti, with which it will be much more interesting to get acquainted with the city. You can find and Book Group or individual excursions to Togliatti with reviews on these trusted sites:

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Below is a list of attractions in Togliatti, as well as places that can be visited from the city, indicating the time of their work, cost and ways to get to them:

Attractions in Togliatti

• Museum of technology

  

  Completely this museum is called Park Complex of the history of Technology named after K. G. Sakharov, and the people call it simply "AvtoVAZ Technical Museum" (the old name). This is the most interesting Museum of the city and the real pride of Togliatti, and for good reason, because it is the largest Technical Museum in Europe. Here, on an open-air site on an area of 38 hectares, military and other equipment of the period of the USSR and Russia were placed, in total more than 450 exhibits. There are automobiles, locomotives, space vehicles, armored vehicles, airplanes, artillery, missiles, and even the world's largest diesel-electric submarine, the B-307. Exhibits can be touched, some of them climb and even climb inside, although theoretically the rules of the museum are prohibited. Of course, this museum is mandatory to visit during trips to Togliatti do not spare time and money on it. Learn more about the Technical Museum here.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: daily from 08:00 to 17:00, seven days a week; the experimental vehicle hangar is open from April to September from 10:00 to 17:00; submarine excursions are held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 13:00, 15:00; Saturday, Sunday– 11:00, 11:45, 12:30, 14:00, 14:45, 15:30.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: adult-200 rubles / children – 100. Visit with excursion accompaniment adult-250 rubles / children – 150. Excursion to the submarine B-307-250 rubles. Hangar of experimental cars – 50 rubles.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located on the outskirts of the automobile plant district at 137 Yuzhnoye Shosse, opposite the Avtovaz plant (Museum on the map).

• Local History Museum

  

  This is the main museum of the city, telling about the history of the region from prehistoric times to the Soviet period. The museum exhibits ancient artifacts found in the Volga land, including mammoth bones, tools of the bronze and pre-bronze period. But the main part of the exhibition is a later period. Much is told about the life of peasants and wealthy residents, about the period of formation of the city of Stavropol, its transfer to a new place, and the subsequent renaming to Togliatti. What is good, the museum does not stand still, and new interactive exhibits appear: you can watch a film about the history of the city, create a photo postcard on the screen with old views of the city and your photo, listen and try to guess the singing of birds living in local areas, do archaeological excavations. In general, the museum is not even bad, and worth a visit. A cursory inspection without a tour will take at least an hour. Learn more about the museum here.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, Wednesday from 10:00 to 21:00, Monday – closed. Last Friday of the month-sanitary day.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: the museum has several permanent exhibitions, which can be paid separately or a single ticket is purchased. The cost of expositions - from 50 to 100 rubles, a single ticket-200 rubles / schoolchildren, students, pensioners-130 rubles. Excursion service-300 rubles. Audio guide-150 rubles. Videography – 50 rubles, photography-25 rubles.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the Central District of Togliatti at 22 Lenin Boulevard (Museum on the map. You can get here by minibus 93K, 126, 326 to the stop "Museum of local lore", or to the stop "City Garden", better known as DC Togliatti or DC Sintezkauchuk (old name), almost any bus or minibus, and 10 minutes walk.

• City Museum complex "Heritage"

  

  This museum is a real find for the dull tourist face of the city, and guests of Togliatti simply have to visit it. This was based on a log house built at the beginning of the last century, once owned by the family of shoemaker Starikov, and moved from the site of the old flooded city of Stavropol on the Volga, later renamed Togliatti. Inside, the atmosphere of that time is recreated, many of the exhibits are original, belonged to the Starikov family. The exposition itself is not very large, but with excursion accompaniment, a visit to the museum becomes interesting and informative. Learn more about the museum "Legacy" here.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, Wednesday from 10:00 to 21:00, Monday – closed. The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day. It is better to make an appointment in advance by Phone +7 (8482) 487302, since the visit involves a tour.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: with excursion accompaniment adults 85 rubles; schoolchildren 70; students, pensioners – 65. Without excursion accompaniment adults 50 rubles; schoolchildren-35; students, pensioners-30.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the Central District, Sovetskaya St., 39 (Museum on the map). This is a private sector area, and public transport does not go here, so you need to get there by your own transport, taxi, or get to the Stop "Shop Rubin" on buses No. 22, 73 or minibus № 91, 96, 108, 137, 142, and then 15 minutes on foot.

• AvtoVAZ Museum

  

  To visit Togliatti, and not to visit the Museum of Avtovaz is impossible, because it is, after all, the automotive capital of Russia. The museum presents the entire model range of serial Vaz cars, some experimental models, as well as cars with their own history. For example, there is a "Kalina", on which the president of the Russian Federation drove to the Far East and then left his autograph on it; there are auto – winners of races; Niva, who visited the north pole, etc.Also there is a collection of cups, medals and other awards of the plant and cars, documents, photos about the history of the plant. Learn more about the Avtovaz Museum here.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: from 10:00 to 12:15 and from 13:00 to 17:00; Saturday from 09:00 to 17:00; Saturday, Sunday – closed.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the building of the Vaz Training Center at 121 Yuzhnoye Shosse (Museum on the map. If you go by taxi, you need to tell the taxi driver that you need to go to the Vaz training center, and not to the museum, otherwise you will be taken to the Technical Museum. You can get there by bus number 5T, 12, 14, 36, 37, 72, 76, 171, 172, 190 to the stop "personnel department" ; by bus No. 28, 115, 305 or trolleybuses No. 13, 14 to the stop "training center".

• Togliatti Art Museum

  

  The only art museum in the city. Here you can get acquainted with the collection of Contemporary Art of the XX-XXI centuries, temporary exhibitions are also held. The main collection includes works of painting, decorative and Applied Arts, graphics, sculpture, children's drawing, glass, mainly by Soviet and Russian artists such as M. P. Konchalovsky, M. K. Kantor, N. N. Brandt, D. A. Nalbandian, L. I. Tabenkin, E. A. Aslamazyan and others. Information about the exhibitions can be found on the official website. Creative workshops and master classes are also held.

  Practical Information

  🌐 Website: thm-museum.ru

  🕐 Working hours: from 10:00 to 18:00; Friday from 10:00 to 21:00; Monday - closed.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: with excursion support adults 215 rubles; schoolchildren 140; students, pensioners – 165. Without excursion accompaniment adults 150 rubles; schoolchildren – 75; students, pensioners – 100. During thematic exhibitions, the price may be several times higher, check the schedule of exhibitions on the website.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the Central District of Togliatti at 22 Lenin Boulevard (Museum on the map). This is the building of the Local History Museum, the entrance from the end of the building. You can get here by minibus 93K, 126, 326 to the stop "Museum of local lore", or to the stop" City Garden", better known as DC Togliatti or DC Sintezkauchuk (old name), almost any bus or minibus, and 10 minutes walk.

• Museum of Modern Art

  

  This is a branch of the Main Art Museum, where exhibitions of contemporary art, master classes, creative workshops are held. This is the only place in the city where you can get acquainted with modern art.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: Monday from 10:00 to 18:00; Tuesday-Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00; Sunday – closed.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: adults-150 rubles; students, pensioners-100; schoolchildren-75; preschoolers-free of charge. Excursion – 65 rubles.

  🚶 How to get there: The museum is located in the avtozavodsky district, Sverdlov STR., 3 (Museum on the map). This is a residential building, the museum is located on the first floor. Phone 8(8482) 30-20-95.

• Museum of the Institute of ecology of the Volga Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  Attention! The museum no longer works

  If you ask the locals if they know about the existence of this museum, they will say that this is the first time they have heard about it. Meanwhile, this museum is quite interesting and worthy of visiting, and it will be interesting for children here. Among the exhibits are samples of the oldest rocks from the region, minerals, samples of oil from Devonian deposits, which was mined in the Samara region, fossilized prints of plants and animals, and much more. The only bad thing is that this museum is located at the Institute and therefore works only during working hours, besides it is difficult to get to it. But if you do, you won't regret it. Excursions in the museum are not held, but the museum staff are happy to talk about the exhibits.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 09:00 to 15:00, but sometimes closed. Before visiting, it is better to clarify by Phone +7 848 248-97-56.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the museum is located in the forest park zone of the city between the districts in the building of the Institute of ecology of the Volga Basin, Komzina STR., 10 (Museum on the map. You can get here by trolleybus No. 7 from the Central and Komsomol districts (goes very rarely), route taxis No. 91, 93 (from the automobile and Central Districts), No. 102 (from the automobile and Komsomol districts), No. 310 (from all districts). You need to go to the Park Hotel stop, it's useless to ask the drivers about the museum, no one knows. To find the right transport/bus, local residents and drivers need to ask how to get to the "green zone".

• Bayram Art Gallery

  

  "Bayram Art Gallery" is a unique place where guests of the city who are interested in art and culture should get. This is the Creative Studio of the artist Bayram, where he has been creating his works for many years. To visit the gallery, it is best to agree in advance on the time of visit by phone +79178200324 or +79272687149. The call is needed in order to be waited for, MET and answered the questions that you will definitely have while viewing the works and getting acquainted with the artist's workplace. Learn more about Bayram art gallery here.

  Practical Information

  🌐 Website: art-bairam.ru

  🕐 Working hours: from Monday to Friday from 13:00 to 19:00 (with prior arrangement by call), on Saturday and Sunday also by appointment by prior call. Phone numbers: +79178200324 and +79272687149.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the gallery is located in the Avtozavodsky District of Moscow.Togliatti, 16 Block, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 29A, on the second floor of the building (gallery on the map).

• Victory Park

  

  Victory Park is one of the few places in Togliatti where tourists can just walk in their free time. In the center is a monument erected on the day of the 40th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, and nearby is the alley of memory with several more monuments. There are alleys for walks in the park, there are shops and green spaces, a tank, a self-propelled gun and a gun from the Second World War are placed on the site. In the summer there are inflatable trampolines and trays with fast food, cotton candy and the like.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the park is located in Avtozavodsky district (Park on the map).

• Monument To Tatischev

  

  Vasily Tatischev is the founder of the city of Stavropol. He was a statesman of the era of Peter I, and founded cities in order to protect the Russian land from nomadic tribes. In the middle of the XX century, Stavropol was moved to a new place, and the old one was flooded by the Zhiguli reservoir, which was required for the construction and operation of the Zhiguli hydroelectric power station. The monument to the founder of the city was erected in 1998 on the banks of the Volga River in the area of the flooded city. Nearby there is also a memorial to the soldiers of the Second World War. Today it is another of the places that must attend wedding ceremonies.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the monument is located in the park zone separating Avtozavodsky and Central Districts (monument on the map).

• Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral

  

  The Transfiguration Cathedral is the main and largest church in Togliatti. It was built in the period from 1992 to 1994, one of the sponsors of the construction was the Avtovaz plant. The cathedral is built in the style of old Russian architecture on the basis of modern technologies, accommodates from 3 to 5 thousand people. It is one of the architectural visiting cards of the city.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: during daytime.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the cathedral is located in the Avtozavodsky district, Revolutsionnaya STR., 19 (Cathedral on the map).

• Sculptures "history of transport"

  Several funny sculptural compositions were built in Soviet times in an attempt to create at least something attractive in Togliatti. There are three sculptures in total, located along the alley opposite a number of old shopping centers. Depict the technique of the early XX century: a locomotive, a steamship and a balloon. In fact, nothing special and outstanding of themselves do not represent, but if you walk here, you can pay attention to them, as they look very monumental.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the sculptures are located in a park along Revolutsionnaya Street in the Avtozavodsk district (sculptures on the map).

• Monument of devotion

  Monument of devotion – one of the iconic monuments of the city of modern times. He appeared here after the tragic events that occurred in 1995. In the summer of that year, a car accident occurred on a busy road near this place, as a result of which the owners of the dog died, only the dog himself survived. And after these events, he lived on the street in this place. Patiently waiting for their dead Masters. The dog received the nickname "faithful" among the people, and waited for them for another 7 years. In memory of this event, and as a symbol of loyalty, the townspeople arranged a monument and an alley here. Based on the story, the feature film "Kostya" was shot. Now this place is necessarily visited during wedding ceremonies, in order to symbolically consolidate marriage with Fidelity and devotion.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the monument is located near the intersection of Yuzhnoye Shosse and Lev Yashin streets in Avtozavodsky district (monument on the map).

Entertainment in Togliatti

• Einstein Museum of entertaining Sciences

  

  This is an entertaining science museum for children and adults, and in our opinion one of the most interesting attractions and entertainment for the family, if you have not been to such places before. This, of course, is not a real museum, but rather an entertainment park, where visitors are introduced to physical phenomena in an entertaining and funny way, while explaining the principle of the origin of certain phenomena. Deception of vision, magic electric ball, giant furniture, experiments with magnets, bottomless well, shadow theater, experiments with pendulums, etc., in total more than 70 exhibits. Consultants-guides help to understand this or that exhibit, explain the essence of the phenomena. A standard visit includes an excursion lasting one hour, and then free time, during which you can once again proytit and try the exhibits. Everything is allowed to touch, twist, pull, etc. Additionally, the museum holds entertaining master classes with children by appointment (Tel. +7(8482)280444 or +79277725464), the cost of 300 rubles/hour.

  Practical Information

  🌐 Website: https://vk.com/club79218514

  🕐 Working hours: from 10:00 to 20:00 seven days a week; sometimes the start of the tour has to wait a little until the group is recruited.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: 360 rubles (adult ticket from 3 years); pensioners, students, large families, disabled people - discounts; master classes-from 300 rubles/hour.

  🚶 How to get there: "Einstein" is located in the 6th quarter of the Automobile Plant District on Korolev Boulevard, 13 (Einstein on the map).

• Embankment and beach of the Avtozavodsky district

  

  In the Avtozavodsky district there is a long sandy and Pebble Beach with an embankment. It stretches along the entire coast of the district, interrupted in the middle by boat stations. This is a favorite place for citizens to relax in the summer, so in good hot weather it is always fun and noisy, and there are many beautiful girls on the beach. The embankment itself does not represent anything outstanding: there are no architectural attractions, amenities, and beauties. There is only a series of cafes, stalls with ice cream and fast food, and old shops. Oh yes, the embankment on summer evenings is a favorite place for local youth.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: summer, daytime.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the beach stretches along the entire Automobile Plant District (Beach on the map).

• Cartodrome on the embankment

  

  On the embankment of the Avtozavodsky district there is a cartodrome, it operates only in the summer. On Sundays there are competitions among amateurs.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: during the daytime (did not work in the 2020 season, there is no information about the resumption of work).

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: 400 rubles 7 minutes.

  🚶 How to get there: located on the embankment of the Avtozavodsky district (cartodrome on the map).

• Fanny children's Park

  The main children's amusement park with carousels, swings, trampolines, Ferris wheel, children's summer water slides, and other children's and adult entertainment. Also in the park there are two bars selling alcohol.

  Practical Information

  🌐 Website: http://funny-park.ru/

  🕐 Working hours: 10:00 – 22:00.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: attractions from 100 rubles.

  🚶 How to get there: In the center of the Avtozavodsk district, 16A Frunze street behind the Rus shopping center (Park on the map).

• Garibaldi Castle and Park

  

  Garibaldi Castle and park is a hotel and tourist complex in the village of Khryashchevka, 40 kilometers from Togliatti and 125 kilometers from Samara. The building of a beautiful castle in the Gothic style, as if transferred from somewhere in old England, is surrounded by a beautiful manicured park, statues. There is a fountain and a restaurant, and in summer there is a tent cafe. In winter, of course, there is no park with its beauties and a fountain.

  So far, the hotel itself is not open, as the complex continues to be completed for many years, but anyone can inspect the outside and walk around the park today. Learn more about Castle Garibaldi here.

  Practical Information

  🕐 Working hours: around the clock, it is better to come during the day and on weekends in the summer.

  💵 Entrance fee / tickets price: free.

  🚶 How to get there: the complex is located in the center of the village of Khryashchevka, 40 kilometers from Togliatti and 125 kilometers from Samara (Castle on the map. To the village of Khryashchevka there is a single suburban bus (minibus) from Togliatti No. 320 (in the daytime approximately every 30 minutes, the cost is 60 USD). It is best to get here by your own transport or taxi.