Russia has been a YPT favourite for many years, from expeditions to remote gulags in Siberia to navigating Chechnya and the unstable North Caucasus region. Now, we bring you our ultimate Soviet Russia tour at a price even Lenin would be proud of! Beginning in the heart of the revolution, Saint Petersburg, we’ll trace the […]

For almost 5 decades, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (which roughly translates to ‘Southern Slav Land’) consisted of the territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The Republic was led by the charismatic former partisan Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980. In the years following his death, […]

Join Young Pioneer Tours to Transnistria – officially known the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) – as we experience Victory Day in true Soviet style. This event is traditionally celebrated by the 16 former republics of the Soviet Union and mark the victory over Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War. With Transnistria often being referred […]

Celebrate Easter with YPT in lands that we know and love, the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl and unrecognized country of Transnistria as well as in the Autonomous Republic of Nakchivan. Beginning in the vibrant Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, we will venture into the nuclear exclusion zone of Chernobyl, featuring the ghost city of Pripyat. From […]

The Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – and their capitals are popular amongst long weekend holidays makers and partygoers. But Young Pioneer Tours are different, and are here to explore the Baltics Soviet past, hard hitting and informative. We’ll go travel into history and to secret locations unknown to the outside world! Your […]

Join us on our Communist Albania Tour as we explore one of the least-visited countries in Europe, focusing on the reign of Enver Hoxha in the former People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. Renowned for its hospitable culture, delicious cuisine, and picturesque scenery, Albania offers a unique glimpse into its complex past. On this tour, we’ll […]

Join YPT for our New Year tour in a land that we know and love, the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl and unrecognised country of Transnistria, reminders of what the Soviet Union was and both complemented by the atmospheric Eastern European winter. Beginning in Kiev, the vibrant Ukrainian capital, we will venture into the nuclear exclusion […]

At YPT, we love autonomous republics, breakaway states and bizarre exclaves, and our latest addition to our range of tours to such far flung places is the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic! Whilst Nakhchivan is an exclave of Azerbaijan, this bizarre republic is geographically separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by its mortal enemy, Armenia, with whom […]

Our range of Chernobyl & Transnistria tours have been a YPT favourite for a number of years. In order to make it easier on prospective travellers both economically and logistically, we bring you the Transnistria & Chernobyl Ultra Budget Tour! The tour kicks off in Kiev and finishes in Bucharest with much to see and […]

During the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, Belarus – 16km from Chernobyl was hit brutally hard by the catastrophic fallout. 66% of the territory of Belarus was contaminated with cesium-137. In response, the Belarussian government set up an exclusion zone around their contaminated territory for decades. Only very […]