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| | Sealetter Cruise Ship Review: Uniworld Cruises' ms Yesenin Volga River cruise Sept 1997 |
 | | This cruise/tour included air to Moscow, transfers to the hotel, hotel in Moscow (Intourist, near Red Square), dinner and breakfast, flight to Astrakhan, cruise from Astrakahn to Moscow, all meals on board including wine at dinner, onboard lectures, excursions at every stop, entertainment on board, excursions and the Circus in Moscow. |
 | | The itinerary was Astrakhan (on the Caspian Sea), then sail northward on the Volga to Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Simbirsk (Ulianovsk), Kazan, Kozmodemyansk, Yurino, Nazhni Novgorod (formerly Gorky), Kostroma, Yaroslav, Uglich, and Moscow. |
 | | Other ports included Saratov, Samara, Simbirsk (formerly Ulyanovsk and the birthplace and boyhood home of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, aka Lenin), Kozmodemyansk (outdoor museum), Yurino (castle), Nizhni Novgorod (formerly known as Gorki, was the city the famous physicist Andree Sakarov was exiled to). |
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