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Transnistria travel with Anton Dendemarchenko - most transparent and entertaining tours from all possibilities! Discover the country that doesn’t exist - we make cognac not war ☭
Big hello to Jim and Jane! Transnistria tour by Anton Dendemarchenko. Welcome to Pridnestrovie, we make cognac not war ☭
Spasibo and Gracias to comrade Óscar
Lenin street, postcard by Anton Dendemarchenko
Transnistria tour by Anton Dendemarchenko. Welcome to Pridnestrovie, we make cognac not war ☭

Travel to Pridnestrovie with Anton Dendemarchenko - day tour

By Anton Dendemarchenko
9.6 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$163 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

I do postcards with my drawings and budget tours to top attractions and hidden gems of Transnistria. Transfer from Chishinau or start in Tiraspol. Honestly, I can’t make Maldives of my country, because it is not Maldives. But i can make an unforgettable journey through all contrasts of what it really is - beautiful panoramas and impressive soviet lost places, curious history and nowadays life in the country that doesn't exist, combining classic walk with forays for true explorers and adventurers.
Day tour takes 5-7 hours. It is not Stalinism, we are very volatile where to go and what to do, but default route covers must-see USSR era and modern bits of Tiraspol, Bendery and optionallly Kitskany, and my favourite nooks and crannies that I discovered doing my sketches. The trip won’t be exhausting, not boring at all, we will have time to talk about all peculiarities of past and present of Transnistria, you won’t be meeting a guide, you will be meeting a friend ☭

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Activity location

  • The Christmas Cathedral
    • Ul. K. Marksa, d. 81
    • Tiraspol, Moldova

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Cantina URSS
    • 66 Strada Rosa Luxemburg
    • 3300, Tiraspol, Unitățile administrativ-teritoriale din stînga Nistrului, Moldova

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Transnistria travel
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Day trip through Transnistria: This is a day journey starting from Tiraspol, Bendery or other settlement of Transnistria. End point will be in Transnistria.

Price details
AU$162.88 x 1 AdultAU$162.88
Total
Price is AU$162.88
Transnistria from Chishinau
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Transnistria day trip with local guide + transfer from Chishinau or airport pick
Pickup included

Price details
AU$312.59 x 1 AdultAU$312.59
Total
Price is AU$312.59
Transnistria all-inclusive
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Duration: 7 hours
Coffee, snacks and lunch: Coffee or kvas to take and go, placinte for a snack and lunch at authentic place with local cuisine, wine or beer optional
Classic/hidden gems: Everything can be customised, it depends how brutal and deep you want to go. We will see top attractions and ussr lost places
Transfer from Moldova and back: Private car from Chishinau itself or airport and back. The road takes 1,5-2 hours.
Memorable souvenirs: I do postcards with my drawings, magnets and maps and anti-propaganda arts. Bonuses - soviet pin and plastic roubles set.
Pickup included

Price details
AU$371.24 x 1 AdultAU$371.24
Total
Price is AU$371.24
Transnistria from Odessa
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
AU$493.56 x 1 AdultAU$493.56
Total
Price is AU$493.56

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTransport - walking and private car. There is an option to try authentic trolley bus, made in USSR.
  • What's includedWhat's includedPostcard with my sketch of Transnistria
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedMenu depends on appetite so the lunch price is excluded. We pick the cafee upon agreement but I ll sketch best options
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFridge magnet with my drawing 5€
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSet of plastic roubles or Pridnestrovie, these are rare jobs to find - 10€
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedMore postcards from Transnistria 2€ per card
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransnistria art set. Prints of my drawings on craft paper and rare hq photos, under the cover - 50€
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSoviet pins and badge so with Lenin, cosmos, WW2, Olympic 80 and more - 2€

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • There will be minimum restrictions. Some parts might be a challenge - climbing the tank or going up bell tower of the monastery but it is not obligatory

Activity itinerary

House of Soviets (Pass by)
This is a day journey with a volatile route that combines classic walk and forays for true adventurers. No moving between monuments with boring lectures. - “Look to the left, there is a building, look to the right, there is a monument”…. My ideology is to show real country and hidden gems that travellers wouldn’t find themselves. That’s why most places where we may actually go are not listed here. I can’t reveal them without risk that tourist industry will take them and spoil them. Anyway, first step - we will definitely stop by DOM SOVIETOV to say hello to comrade Lenin, what can be a better start?
The Christmas Cathedral
  • 5m
Optional loop through 100 rouble back side.
The Suvorov Monument
  • 5m
Day trip will include highlights, top attractions and my favourite hidden gems that I won’t display here. But probably it will be exactly them making the journey unique and unforgettable. One the known attractions will be Alexander Suvorov monument on the central square.
Green Market Center
  • 10m
Surprisingly modern veggie market. What they call eco products - for my country is just products.
Eternal Flame
  • 5m
Eternal flame and memorial for fallen in Great Patriotic war.
The Tank Monument
  • 5m
T-34 is one the most significant memorials in Transnistria. Real combat tank which krew was killed in Hungary when soviet troops were already going to Berlin.
Palacio Presidencial
  • 5m
Palace of pioneers, Supreme Soviet with comrade Lenin in front.
Chitcani Monastery (Noul Neamt)
  • 1h 30m
Optional throw to Kitskany village and Noul Neamt Monastery.
Bendery Fortress
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Bendery - second largest town of nowhereland has soviet and medieval sightseeings, on demand we may visit old Turkish fortress on the bank of Dniester river. I loved it when it was abandoned but now while reconstruction it got some significant bonuses.
Mig-19 Monument
  • 5m
Pridnestrovie is rumoured to be “back to USSR” but actually it is more complicated than that, you need to be at the right time, at the right place and frame your look to get that impression. One of my favourite gems to catch that is Aviators memorial at Balka dst. commemorating 30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic war.
Soviet Canteen "USSR"
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
The journey will be multi-sided and contrast, curiously history and nowadays life, picturesque panoramas and impressive soviet lost places. We are very volatile where to go, what to see, some parts are planned, some parts are optional or spontaneous, let’s be open to the outside world and all probable adventures. I will be not only storyteller, but a conductor to the real country and its people. In summer time they start to sell kvas in the streets, cool refreshing drink made of water, bread, yeast and sugar. You may like it or not, but that’s a chance to try something authentic, the recipe is same as back in communist times. My favourite lunch place is Soviet canteen - Stolovka USSR. Super tasty, super atmospheric, authentic place with nice interior - perfect lunchbox stop
Kvint
  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
I discovered many curious nooks and crannies doing my drawings, they are not listed in trip advisor but will make the day unforgettable and the tour unique. We will have time to talk about all peculiarities of life in the country that doesn’t exist, this is my native land and I lived in Pridnestrovie from the foundation of the state. It is totally safe, intriguing and hospitable, mount up, comrades! You won’t be meeting a guide, you will be meeting a friend!
Tiraspol
  • 30m
One of the options where to get lunch is reincarnated Soviet canteen, the place is amazing and still awfully underrated. Well, maybe it’s even better that it’s not discovered and overfilled by tourists
Transnistria
  • 3h
Each day is not like other, in case you decide to entrust your time to me - it’s not a tour, it’s life. Beyond borders and propaganda. Horse blinders off, come and see for real. Welcome to Pridnestrovie, we make cognac, not war!

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESThe Christmas Cathedral
    • Ul. K. Marksa, d. 81
    • Tiraspol, Moldova

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECantina URSS
    • 66 Strada Rosa Luxemburg
    • 3300, Tiraspol, Unitățile administrativ-teritoriale din stînga Nistrului, Moldova
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEStrada Rosa Luxemburg 66
    • 66 Strada Rosa Luxemburg
    • 3300, Tiraspol, Unitățile administrativ-teritoriale din stînga Nistrului, Moldova
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEChisinau
    • Chișinău, Chisinau, Moldova
  • PEOPLEPEOPLETiraspol Bus Station
    • Tiraspol, Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester, Moldova
  • PEOPLEPEOPLEBender Bus Station
    • 3201, Bender, Județul Tighina, Moldova

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