here you can find travel directions to get to out camp

“International student

“Sodrujestvo” workcamp”

Chebocksary (Chuvashia region), RussiaVSU-NN 07 (1 – 10 February 2008)  

Hello dear friends! You are welcome to our workcamp! Please, bring pleasant and windy moods!  

The most important thing for you – it’s to get to the workcamp, so here you can find travel directions. It’s not the easiest thing to do if you don’t speak Russian. But all our volunteers in previews years got to the workcamps. 😉 

Meeting point: the workcamp is started on February 1. We expect you to come to Cheboksary in the morning on February 1 (you may come earlier if you like and spend a few days with the organizers of the camp (Cultural Linguistic center “Sodrujestvo”) preparing the program, discussing the details and going sightseeing in Cheboksary, but in this case you should let the organizer of the camp Sasha Philippova (see the contacts below) know in advance when you are coming and where to meet you). If you are coming to the start of the camp – which is February 1 — you should leave Moscow on January 31 from Kazanski train station (there is a night train Moscow-Cheboxary, it leaves Moscow at about 8.40 pm and arrives to Cheboxary next morning at about 9.00 am).  

How to get there if you arrive to Moscow?

    Step#1. Go out of the Airport building and take mini-bus or train (costs about 50-100 rubles) to metro-station “Rechnoy Vokzal”  (Речной вокзал) or any other metro station. In fact mini-buses and trains come almost every 5 minutes so you’ll not wait for long! Don’t change all money at the Airoport, only for your travel to Moscow city (Euro 10-20 not more). You can change it in Moscow city, it will be more beneficial for you (Euro 1 coasts about 37 rubbles). And please change your money at Currency Exchange, not private way. 

    Step#2. Get a metro-ticket (costs 20 rubles). Take green line (the only line you can take from this station “Rechnoy Vokzal”J) and change it at station “Belorusskaya” (Белорусская). Take the circle line (direction  station “Novoslobodskaya” (Новослободская) and pass 3 stations, get out on the forth “Komsomolskaya” (Комсомольская).  Get out on this station. 

    Step#3. Attention! You need to get to Kazanskiy train station (Казанский вокзал).  

    Step#4. On  Kazanskiy train station you need to find the ticket-office (you will see there a lot of people sometimes – queuing up), it’s called in Russian — Kassa (Касса). You have to buy the ticket to Cheboksari (Чебоксары). You can pay only in roubles so you should have your money exchanged into roubles by that time then. The train leaves at about 8.40 p.m. (the number of the train is #54), it comes to Cheboksari at about 9.00 a.m. The train tickets can cost really different – Plazkart (in Russian) about 700 rubles (about 20 euro), Kupe (in Russian) – 1600 rubles (45 euro), there are some more expensive tickets but to our mind it’s not necessary.  You will be met at the train station in Cheboxary by the organizers of the camp – Sasha Philippova and Russian volonteers of the “Cultural Linguistic center “Sodrujestvo”. They will wait for you there for 30 minutes after the arrival of the train.  

 If you find another  way of getting to Cheboxary or you arrive some other time – please let Sasha Philippova (camp leader) know by the telephones below 

In case you got lost or late or just … 

Any way, please call to +8  8352 (that’s the area code of Cheboxary if you call from another town) 66-04-67 (Sasha Philippova), or 8 902 249 96-26 (Sasha Philippova) she speaks English and French. If you call from your country (not from Russia) dial +7 8352 66-04-76 and +7 902 249 96-26 

The contact information of the campleader Sasha Philippova are those telephones and e-mail Al-phil@yandex.ru  

In case you got in trouble in Moscow – please contact our partner organization “World-for-you”How to get to the office of “World for you” –  

    Step#1. Go out of the Airport building and take mini-bus (costs about 50-100 rubles) to metro-station “Rechnoy Vokzal”  (Речной вокзал) . In fact they come almost each 5 minutes so you’ll not wait for long! 

    Step#2. Get a metro-ticket (costs about 20 rubles). Take green line (the only line you can take from this station J) and change it at station “Teatralnaya” (Театральная). Take red line (there should be station “Okhotny Ryad” (Охотный ряд)) and take the last cart. Go till the  station “Tchistye Prudy” (Чистые пруды). 

    Step#3. Attention! Get off of wagon and go upstairs. Turn to the left. Go upstairs again and between two entrances you’ll see choose one, where you’ll see small stand of flowers sell.  

    Step#4. You are on the street. You see Tchistoprudny boulevard and a monument to a very popular Russian writer A.S.Griboedov. (He wrote a classical poem “Bad luck because of smartness”). So take right side of the boulevard and go, go, go (about 5-7 minutes) 

    Step#5. When walking on the boulevard, you’ll see fountains and huge white building with a pond behind it. Get off from the boulevard to the right, cross the road and keep walking about 100 m. 

    Step#6. You’ll see house #12A. It’s funky building of one of the most popular Moscow cinemas “Rolan” (Ролан) – you could recognize it in a mile!  Come in! 

    Step#7. Inside the building take right elevator hall and go to the sixth floor. Room #621.   

In brief – the address: 

101000, Chistoprudny blvd, h.12A, 6th floor, room 621 

Ask for Morten Sigsgaard or Shashi Martynova  

tel. (calling from Moscow) 937-7027/28/29 

About the project Cultural-linguistic center “Sodrujestvo” (in English “Union”) welcome you in the workcamp “International Student camp “Sodrujestvo”. 

The project realizes the unique opportunity of teaching students foreign languages, provides special conditions to communicate with native speakers. We invite camp counselors, camp leaders and campers all sharing skills and knowledge, developing cross-cultural understanding and creating close international friendships. We hold various activities to get to know foreign languages and share with our foreign participants things about Russia, the Russian language and Russian culture. 

Work: The volunteers will  work as counselors and participate in the daily life of the workcamp – there will be different cultural and linguistic activities e.g. – Presentations of different national cultures when foreign and Russian volunteers will prepare different ways of showing and sharing with others cultures of different nationalities, e.g. Ausyria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Korea, Belgium, Russia and any other country. Also the volunteers will get the opportunity to organize their own workshops for students – using their skills and knowledge they have (the so-called master classes where they will be able to teach students English, French, German, any other language and many other things they are able to teach). The workshops will not be large, from 5 to 12 participants. It will depend on the volunteers if they wish to organize the workshops  themselves or with the help of Russian counselors. There will also be Learning Russian classes, where Russian students will teach our foreign participants Russian and introduce them to Russian culture.  

Study part: you’ll get skills and knowledge in cross-cultural education and understanding. You will get skills in organizing young people for preparing presentations on certain theme. You’ll learn to speak Russian, know about the unique Russian and Chuvash culture, language and history of Chuvash people (local ethnic group — of which Cheboxary is the capital — of mixture of finno-hungarian tribes with turkish tribes. The Chuvash language is in Turkish family of languages); you’ll be able to share your knowledge in speaking different languages with the youth from Chuvashia and other regions of Russia. Also you will have the possibility to learn the basis of Russian. 

Accommodation: rooms for 4 people in the typical children camp  

Location: Youth Camp near Cheboxary. Cheboksary is situated  600 km to the east from Moscow. 

Languages: any languages (English, French, German, Russian…..) 

Free time: various excursions in the English and Russian languages to historical cultural places of interest of Chuvash Republic, winter outdoor games, skating, sleighing, contests, shows, exhibitions, quiz concerning cross-cultural relations, plays, concerts, parties and other entertaining activities concerning other countriesParticipation fee: no  

Have a nice trip to workcamp!!!   

USEFUL LINKS AND INFORMATION if you stay in Moscow :   OVERNIGHT IN THE CITY 

   To overnight in Moscow there are several options around the city, and you can find them on the special link on our homepage  —  http://www.world4u.ru/eng/volunteer   

   MOSCOW METRO MAP (in English)   —   http://eng.moscowout.ru/metro   

   GENERAL INFO ABOUT RUSSIA   — http://www.viarita.com   

   TELEPHONE    There are pay phones so called “taksofon” (таксофон). Most take prepaid phone cards, which are available from metro toke booths. Card phones can be used for local and domestic calls. There are special pay phones for international calls (you’ll need a card for at least 100 units) and if you find one in Moscow, please let us know we will include in our infosheets. J Pay phones are usually multi language. 

   INTERNET-CAFE   No problem. There are several Internet-caf? nets in Moscow and in big cities.  

   Here is the address of the nearest twenty-four-hour internet-cafe to World4U office: Pyatnitsua str. 25-1, metro station Novokuznetskya (Новокузнецкая) green line   OPENING HOURS   Most shops are open from 9am till 8pm. But it’s always possible to find twenty-four-hours food kiosk where one can buy at least chocolate and beer. Most metro stations in Moscow open from 5:00 (5:30) a.m. to 01:00 a.m. Buses, trolley-buses, and trams operate throughout the city, and run from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.  

   CURRENCY EXCHANGE:   We recommend you to bring your money in US dollars or in euro. Exchange offices are open every day twenty-four hours and you definitely find at least one near a metro station. Please use banks or exchange offices solely. It can cause some difficulties to find an exchange office in a small town. You’d better change your money in the city. 

There are twenty-four-hour cash machines in the center of Moscow.   

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