Ulyanovsk region - the land of rich history! Its territory is comparable to the Netherlands or Belgium! The city is located on the two banks of the great Volga River, one of the largest rivers on the planet and also the largest in Europe! The picturesque embankment overlooks two unique bridges - the Imperial Bridge, one of the oldest railway bridges in Russia, and the Presidential Bridge, the total length of which is 13 km. When this bridge was opened in 2009, it was the longest in Russia and one of the longest in Europe!
Ulyanovsk region has a unique tourist potential - the city of Ulyanovsk is the birthplace of the Vladimir Lenin. It is here that the world's only museum complex dedicated to the leader of the Great October Revolution of 1917 is located!
Museum-reserve "Lenin's homeland" - a kind of "open-air museum", a visit to which, gives a unique opportunity to plunge into the life of a provincial town of the 19th century, walk down the street in the city center, visit many thematic museums!
Also in Ulyanovsk there is the only Museum of Civil Aviation in the country, its main part - a unique exhibition of domestic civil aviation planes and helicopters, placed on an area of about 18 hectares. The flying field and hangars of the airport demonstrate 36 aircrafts, 5 of which - helicopters, and the rest - cargo, passenger and multi-purpose aircrafts. Ivan Goncharov Center-Museum is the only museum of the famous writer in the world, but even this is not the whole tourist potential of our Ulyanovsk region!
Unique natural landscapes region and ecological trails: Geopark “The Undoria”, National Park “The Sengileyevskiye Gory”,Landscape parks of the 19th century, Karsunsky district, Baryshsky district
On 2 February Russian House in Brussels invites to an online meeting with the Agency of Tourism of the Ulyanovsk region, which will be attended by specialists of the Agency, museum staff, tour operators and representatives of business - community.
"We will tell our colleagues from Belgium about the tourism potential of the region, about unique objects and tourist routes. Business representatives will tell about the possibilities of implementing their projects on the territory of the Ulyanovsk region. Online meetings like this are the only option for building relationships with foreign countries. The pandemic is not a reason to stop our work, it's an opportunity to reconsider the approach to relations with foreign countries", - said Denis Ilyin, Director of the Agency of Tourism.