Rest on the Don

The Upper Don provides wonderful conditions for active rest making: favourable weather (from May till October), various landscapes, pure bodies of water, long swimming season , sandy beaches, abundance of fish, and others. So aquatic tourism has been mostly developed here.

Tourist groups of 10-15 people are taken by bus to Stanitsa Kazanskaya, where they set out hiking. The itinerary lies from Kazanskaya through two districts – Verkhnedonskoy and Sholokhov, and goes along the River Don through Stanitsa Migulinskaya, Zaton Village and Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya. Then the rest-markers go to Stanitsa Bazkovskaya, on their way taking excursions about the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve. The trip ends in Stanitsa Bazkovskaya, where the bus awaits them.

The trip is the first category difficulty lasting 6-8 days (depending on the program). The total length of the rout is 120 km. The vessel types: canoe, catamaran, boat, raft, etc. Accommodation in tents.

Sports tourism in ecologically clean places including the territory of the Upper Don has a favourable salutary effect on the human organism. And a rich cultural and historic potential of the territory affords meeting the interests of the most fastidious traveller.