Rural tourism is the practice of touring rural areas. Development of tourist sites in the countryside undoubtedly helps to satisfy people’s desire to reconnect with nature, prevents negative impact consumerism has on environment, culture and aesthetics. It also accumulates touristic potential and redirects it to serve for the good of nature.

 Rural tourism preserves countryside lifestyle, its customs and traditions. The locals are interested in maintaining the business: rural tourism helps them to earn a living with their skills and hard work. The city dwellers are attracted by the pristine nature of the countryside. From time to time, all of us feel the urge to escape our worries and problems for a little while, escape the city hustle and bustle and leave all the chores behind. That is the right time to take care of your health and indulge in what you really like. Rural tourism is a good way to take a break with benefits for your health!

The one-of-a-kind center of ecological and rural tourism has opened in Staroye Shaygovo District, Republic of Mordovia. Irsetskie Prostory (“Irset Vasts”) is located 50 km away from Saransk and 170 km away from Nizhny Novgorod, on the border of the Republic of Mordovia and Nizhny Novgorod Region. It is one of the most unspoiled and clear places in Russia, away from all the big complexes, manufacturing plants and highways, amidst 3,000 hectares of fields, meadows and forests.

There are two recreation programs for those who want to spend some quality time with their friends and family, enjoy peace and quiet and get an energy boost:

 - Active program: includes hunting, fishing, sledge riding, snowmobile riding, skiing, cycling, games.

- Peaceful program: includes mushroom hunting, berry and nut picking, far-off boar trail hiking to the wood spring, swimming in the river.

We can offer you comfortable, spacious rooms (standard and deluxe), double rooms and family rooms (sleeps 4). The price includes organic farm breakfasts at our café. There are tents and barbecue sets to relax outdoors. All our products are for sale and you can take them with you.

We can offer you celebration organization services: birthdays, anniversaries, engagements and weddings. Go on entertaining and insightful outdoor tours with your friends, have a workshop, a teambuilding event or meet your former classmates.

Take our rural tour and try out rural tourism. Stay in an early 20th century Mordovian wooden hut. Feed and milk a cow, harness and ride a horse, prepare some hay, harvest the crops the way our progenitors did. It would be an insightful experience for anyone, either for kids, or for the tired city dwellers exhausted by the city buzz.

We are looking forward to see you at Irsetskie Prostory on any day of the week, any month of the year!