Join YPT in Irkutsk as we head to the stunning early winter in Lake Baikal. We’ll be exploring the city of Irkutsk, Siberia’s second city after Vladivostok, and one with an amazing history and culture of St Petersburg exiles and local ethnic groups. We’ll be spending 3 nights in and around Lake Baikal, its various […]

Join YPT in Irkutsk as we head to the stunning Lake Baikal. We’ll be exploring the city of Irkutsk, Siberia’s second city after Vladivostok, and one with an amazing history and culture of St Petersburg exiles and local ethnic groups. We’ll be spending 3 nights in and around Lake Baikal, its various villages and islands, […]

Embark on a journey with YPT to one of the most famous of the Russian republics, Chechnya. Known today for all the wrong reasons, it used to be one of the most touristic areas of the old Soviet Union due to its stunning natural beauty and the culture of the fiercely nationalistic yet incredibly friendly […]

What better way to follow up a trip to the Magadan Soviet Gulag than to journey with YPT to Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) – Birobidzhan – the Soviet Zion? Set in Russia’s far east and bordering China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang, Birobidzhan was set up as an autonomous Oblast for Jewish people by Stalin […]

Following on from exploring the unrecognised countries of the Caucasus, we take you on our uniquely Soviet Georgia Vertigo tour to explore one of our favourite countries of the old Soviet Union! We take you urban exploring in real Stalin country, the old mining town of Chiatura, some vertical climbing at Katski’s pillar as well as […]

Join YPT for our extended, or as we like to say, extreme Chernobyl trip that has us spending two full days in the Pripyat Exclusion Zone, staying at the Chernobyl Hotel and even meeting the self-settlers that have decided to relocate to the zone following the accident. This is an extremely exclusive trip and will be […]

Join us to Belarus – Europe’s most isolated country, making it one of the most unique places in the region. This landlocked country has been ruled by the same president since 1994. Little has changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union including the trains you’ll be taking. On our Belarus tours, we take you […]

Group Start Date End Date Price 1 & 2 November 9th November 17th €790 1 November 9th November 11th €450 2 November 11th November 17th €390 Join YPT for a tour in a land that we know and love, the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl and unrecognised country of Transnistria! The tour kicks off in Kiev and […]

Group Start Date End Date Price 1 & 2 July 20th July 29th €790 1 July 20th July 26th €390 2 July 27th July 29th €450 Join YPT for a tour in a land that we know and love, the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl and unrecognised country of Transnistria! The tour kicks off in Bucharest […]

Now is your opportunity to explore the breakaway state of South Ossetia and be a part of the Independence Day celebrations. It’s not a secret knowing for a traveller to enter all four post-Soviet breakaway republics is incredibly difficult. YPT have your back! We can obtain your expedited entry permits for the all four of […]