Tobolsk to the Arctic Circle: 1,496 km river route
The route is 1496 km long from Tobolsk in the direction of the Arctic Circle. The journey takes about 300 hours and passes along the Ob and Irtysh rivers, offering comfortable conditions for a water cruise in the Russian Arctic.
- Distance
- 1496.0 km
- Duration
- 12 days
- Mode
- route
- Start
- Тобольск, Россия
- End
- Салехард, Россия
- Stops
- 2
- Video author
- travmap
- Updated
Stops on this route
- Тобольск, Россия
- Салехард, Россия
Useful for your trip
- Where to stay
- The Severnaya Skazka motor ship is the only three-deck river cruise ship in Siberia along the Ob and Irtysh rivers, accommodating a maximum of 130 guests
- Tip
- There are two restaurants on the ship: the upper one with panoramic windows and the lower one. There is no difference in service and dishes. For 11 days, not a single dish was repeated
- Timing
- Itinerary: 11 days with 9 major stops. Crossings are in the evening and in the morning, in the afternoon there are excursions. Start in Tobolsk, end in Surgut via Salekhard
- Transport
- The route is more than 2731 km long along the Ob and Irtysh rivers. First you go along the Irtysh, then a U-turn in Salekhard and return along another channel of the Ob
- Tip
- After crossing the Arctic Circle in Salekhard, you will receive a personal certificate confirming the crossing of the Arctic Circle line
- Where to stay
- The ship has a Lounge Bar, a concert hall with daily programs, a forest reading lounge and a chill area aft on the upper deck
- Tip
- In Khanty-Mansiysk, visit the Museum of Oil and Gas Geology with a reconstruction of the life of geologists of the 1960s and an archeopark with figures of prehistoric animals
- Tip
- In the village of Muzha there is an open-air park-museum with traditional buildings. Located right on the territory of the village of Khanty-Muzha
- Tip
- In Salekhard, visit the reindeer herders outside the city. A chum (a hut made of larch poles) is assembled and dismantled in 30 minutes
- Tip
- In Salekhard, the Shimanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex contains 75,278 exhibits, including a valuable baby mammoth Lyuba
- Timing
- During the summer journey, deer are driven north because of the gnat. It is better to visit reindeer herders at other times of the year to see the animals
- Tip
- In Tobolsk, visit the prison castle, one of the most terrible places in the empire. He is still on board the plate of those shot during Stalin's repressions
Video on this route
Expedition to the Arctic Circle in comfort.