In addition to the usual adventurous extreme tourist travels and adventures, very exotic ones have recently developed in Russia. A very popular direction in extreme tourism is the so-called military tourism.

One notable example is the range of thrills offered by Zashchitnik, a public organization in Yaroslavl, organized by veterans of the recent hostilities in Russia. During the tour “Kursk Bulge to order” those who wish can try themselves as a conscript. Volunteer conscripts are accommodated in the barracks, equipped on the territory of the former military unit. By subscribing to the tour, each “rookie” determines what delights of army life he would like to experience. So, you can fly a helicopter for 500 USD. e. per hour, drive an armored personnel carrier (140 c. e.), jump with a parachute (85 c. e.) or master the basics of hand-to-hand combat (150 c. e. for 2 hours). Those who wish are also offered a hazing program, the content of which is kept secret. You don’t have to pay for it – this is a kind of present from the organizers of the tour.

The idea was continued and developed in the Urals. The Ekaterinburg company “Good company” offers as a tourist service riding on combat vehicles (tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns), rented from one of the parts of the Volga Military District. As a rule, adrenaline junkies are not allowed to steer on the most complex equipment – professional drivers sit behind the wheel. But everyone can drive a self-propelled gun and even take part in a tank battle for an additional fee.

Fans of passive recreation are invited to lie down in a trench and experience unforgettable sensations while the tank irons this same trench. This one-day tour is not cheap. The minimum program for fans of war games, provided that a group of 40 people gathers, costs from 5,000 rubles per participant. Despite this, there are more than enough people who want to play war. This is not the only type of adventure holiday. You can also go on an expedition to the Ural Mountains, organized in the spirit of “The Last Hero” and stories about Indiana Jones. Or, without leaving Yekaterinburg, you can remember your childhood and play “Twelve Notes” or “Cossack Robbers”.

Similar adventure extreme tours in the style of “Mastering the Cossacks Siberia”, “Cossacks on the Volga or on the Don” (or on any other river), “Gold diggers at the mine” and so on, depending on the initial resources, it is quite possible to organize in many regions of Russia. The Siberian “shackle paths” can become especially steep. By the way, the probability of making discoveries, including great ones, during adventure tours in Russia is very high – with our scale, the level of exploration of even seemingly inhabited areas is very low.

A very original tour is a trip called “Chernobyl stalkers”, organized by a Ukrainian travel company. It is a tour of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. This zone with a radius of about 30 km, closed to outsiders, was created in 1986, after the infamous explosion of the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The earth in it is still “fonit”, but this does not stop desperate tourists. The tour also takes place along the streets of the dead city of Pripyat. The radiation level here ranges from 15 to 200 microroentgens per hour, but, as the organizers of the tour assure, a short stay of tourists in the Chernobyl zone is completely safe. One way or another, but there are many who want to visit it.