Customized Service-Learning Programs in Russia

Study Abroad integrated with Volunteer Service

Excursions

Excursions may be integrated into the program. They might include outings to theater, music, or circus performances and/or weekend excursions to St. Petersburg, Sergiev Posad (one of the Russia's most important religious and historical landmarks), or the Golden Ring towns of Vladimir and Suzdal.

Following is a list of typical excursions that might be possible:

Typical fall excursions:

• Orientation tour of Moscow by bus
• The Moscow Kremlin and the Assumption Cathedral
• The Tretiakov Art Gallery
• The Novodevitchy Convent & Cemetery
• The Diamond Fund of the Kremlin
• The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
• The Golden Ring town of Sergiev Posad with a visit to St.Sergius Monastery
• The KGB Museum
• The Central Museum of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Russia
• The best Russian chocolate factory, Red October
• The State Museum of Ceramics and the 18th century Kuskovo Estate
• Kolomenskoe - State Historical, Architectural, Natural and Landscape Reservation
• The Museum of Russian Contemporary History
• 2-day trip to the Golden Ring towns of Vladimir and Suzdal
• 5-day trip to St. Petersburg

Typical spring excursions:

• The Andrei Rublev Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art
• The All Russian Museum of Decorative and Folk Art
• The Moscow Kremlin and to the Diamond Fund
• Visit to the New Jerusalem Monastery
• The New Tretiakov Art Gallery at Rimsky Val - 20th Century Art
• The Modern History Museum (formerly the Museum of the Revolution)
• 2-day trip to Tver - one of the Oldest Russian Cities
• “Kolomenskoe” - State Historical, Architectural, Natural and Landscape Reservation
• 5-day trip to St. Petersburg
• The Central Museum of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia
• 2-day trip to the Golden Ring towns of Vladimir and Suzdal
• The State Museum of Ceramics and the 18th century Kuskovo Estate
• Peredelkino, near Moscow

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