Posts Tagged ‘excursions’

International Museum

May 23rd, 2026

International Museum International Museum of espionage Espionage (The International Spy Museum) – is one of the most intriguing museums in America. It contains more than 600 exhibits covering all aspects of this legendary career. It is located next to National mole in the heart of Washington, where a stone's throw and the main attractions of the city, and until the FBI headquarters. It still can be called a museum of errors, because it is because of them the names of many agents have known as their "arsenal" joins museum collection. One of the founders and a board member of the museum – our countryman, the former Soviet resident O. Kalugin. He managed to gather quite amazing artifacts not only from the history of American intelligence, but also the history of the Soviet Union, Russia and other countries. The museum occupies the entire 5 buildings, whose history is very trivial.

In one of them from 1941 to 1948 in a room 306 headquarters of the Fourth District Branch of the Communist Party USA, where, according to U.S. Read additional details here: Jim Rogers. counterintelligence, Soviet spies were hiding. "All around – not what it seems." This idea is pursued any visitor to the museum. Here you can see quite unusual exhibits seized from the spies: the lighter-camera, hidden camera, mounted in a wristwatch (West Germany, 1949. The agent could make 6 shots, pretending that verifies that hour), pistol in a case out of lipstick, nicknamed "The Kiss of Death" (USSR, 1965.

firing single-shot device capable of great destructive power), an umbrella with a deadly poison, a coat with buttons, cameras (USSR, 1970. According to museum curators, this device is so well proven, that are still used today), "bugs" in the stumps and flower pots, in ties and high heels, a cigarette packs and the ladies' trinkets. Bugs beginning and the museum itself. Wearing headphones, you can hear the conversations of visitors who are in another room. And on the walls hung pictures unmasked spies from various countries. The very first thing you hear when you enter the museum and get up in the queue for tickets, it's endlessly repeated questions: "Your real name? Who are you working? To whom do you work? "… This record questioning the detainee spy bad helps pass the time. A voice from the speaker warns that spying on you is already underway, but the most important thing you learn – lousy intelligence and counter-intelligence swarm in large cities and capitals and in Washington, almost every second, most likely a spy. For more information see this site: KBS. You may end up plunge into espionage atmosphere, choosing for himself a legend, a cover and try to remember all the related details – biography, purpose of visit and contacts. At the end of the trip computer will check your history. If you make a few mistakes and forget any details, start trouble. The question arises – to release you from the country or to surrender to special services. Leaving the museum, you can buy something as a souvenir of your visit. In a special museum store what is there not! The costumes and weapons, James Bond, music from the movie about him and the films themselves, suitcases with false bottoms, pens with invisible ink, night vision equipment, encryption (cryptographic) games and puzzles spetskantstovary (folders for papers stamped "Top Secret", the press, which is cut: "Upon reading – burn" or "Do not copy") and much more. It is a museum for the real connoisseurs of art spyware!

River Cruises On Mother Russia

March 7th, 2026

Under the river cruise is meant a boat trip on rivers, reservoirs, lakes, canals and other waterways which can travel tourist boats. In this article you will learn about the basic routes, river cruises in Russia. The basis for river cruises – a great and mighty Volga River, through the channels the Moscow-Volga, Volga-Baltic, White Sea-Baltic Canal, Volga-Don, Moscow, called the port of five seas. After all, thanks such a system, channels can cross the country from south to north on a beautiful boat. And what to do on the deck of the ship, you ask? In addition to the beautiful and ever-changing view from the window of your cabin or walking the deck. For more information see this site: KBS. On Boat organize all the possible contests (Neptune KVNy, etc.), the guide tells about the sights they pass in the current ship, you can sunbathe on the upper deck in the evening disco, as usually carried out separately for the young and those over …

Also, all ships have a cinema hall. But the main in the cruise is, above all, guided tours during stops in towns. Contact information is here: BP. The timetable for trying to make it so that would be every day a parking lot. When traveling down the Volga every day a new city, new tour, if you do not like to walk with everyone, then no one will interfere with their own sightseeing in the city. These parking lots are usually called stop in the countryside. During the stops you can swim, just walk along the river bank. For example, we can point out some green parking: Nikolsky. Green parking is located between Volgograd and Astrakhan.

Here you can buy: fruits, vegetables, fish, etc. Akhtuba. Green parking is also located between Volgograd and Astrakhan. But differs from the beautiful sandy beaches. Pine. Green parking on the Volga River, not far from Moscow. In under the name of parking located in a thick pine forest on the banks of the Volga River has a sandy beach. Svirstroy. Village on the banks of the river Svir. A 10 minute walk from the pier there creek where the water is much warmer than in the river itself. Also, tourists are offered a bus tour of the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery nearby. It usually stop ships, following from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Irma. Green parking located on the river Sheksna, which is part of the Volga-Baltic Canal. Ships stop here, following the route 'St. Petersburg – Moscow', 'Nizhny Novgorod – St. Petersburg', etc. Around the pier is located homonymous village. You can try not forgotten the feeling when you go to sleep at night seeing the coast and in the morning you wake up, and banks are not visible. Sailing past the shore, covered with lush greenery, the lapping of waves, nice music on the deck of the ship, bringing breeze fragrance of wild flowers from the shore, shining bright lights of passing boats and much, much more – will do a river cruise on the rivers of Russia, do not forget page of our life. I often ask the question: "And I swayed, and would like to take a cruise, how to be?" I hasten to reassure all, on the rivers of Russia (reki-rossii.ru) high waves do not happen. The only thing where you can get into the pitching – it's large reservoirs and lakes: Ladoga and Onega Lake, the Rybinsk and Kuibyshev. As a rule, the transitions in these waters takes very little time, and summer storms do not happen only in the autumn and early spring. Source: reki-rossii.ru