Stalin Defense Line

12+

Age

As World War II advanced to the east, Stalin’s engineers created a fortified region of artillery positions in 1928, prepared with machine guns and heavier weapons. However, technology developed drastically and those objects, now left in the woods, were not yet prepared for the new tanks and their destructive capacity.

DEPARTURE

Kiev (best before 12:00PM – noon)

DURATION

Tour takes about 4 hours depending on traffic

PRICING

Prices per person
Possible to pay by cash, bank transfer or card

WEAR

Comfortable clothing, shoes you don’t mind getting a bit dirty, hat on summer days, light coat during fall/spring.

INCLUDED

English Speaking Guide
Transportation (car OR mini-coach)	Any required fee

You will visit the remains of those pillboxes, some re-built to present the conditions, in which those soviet heroes fought and succumbed to the Barbarosa operation organized by Hitler to conquer all the soviet territories from Poland to Moscow. Some of the bunkers are abandoned, making you go through the woods, stepping on wet grounds, bringing your lantern as a guide.

We get a visit to a bunker converted into a museum with original artifacts collected around, like helmets, grenades, bullet shells, magazines, notes and more.

As an option, you can decide to be dropped off by the World War II Memorial Park and the motherland statue, one of the biggest in the world.

10:00

Pickup at agreed place and drive about 40 minutes to Kiev outskirts.

10:30-11:00

We will arrive at the first bunker, transformed in a museum, where you will see objects found underground, presence signs of the destruction caused by the Nazi attack and how the bunker was operated by the soldiers

11:30

As we move to the next bunker, you will understand how they were controlled from distance and have their importance as defense between themselves, arriving at a bigger one, the control bunker with the main view of the battlefield.

12:30

We leave riding along the woods and you will see several ruins and remains of what was an intense conflict and be able to stop and check some of them, many still kept as memorials from those that lost their relatives in the war, always keeping flowers around.

13:30

Driving and eating our lunch we will visit the only bunker built on pure thick metal, two levels, next to a monument to remember the story of those brave soldiers that decided not to surrender even after running off of ammunition

14:00

Finally we arrive to the final bunker, nowadays in a water reservoir, you can swim or go by raft to check the surprise inside…a soviet bunker built with German material !

Prices are per person, includes transportation and guiding. To enter some of the bunkers we might get wet and will be dark, so we provide torches and a leg protection.

1 person: €130
2 person: €85
3 persons: €70
4 persons: €60
5 persons: €50
6 persons: €45