Baikal news

26.07.2010 06:35:08
Kayak sail sings in Olkhon island

«Russian Mir» offers kayaking at Olkhon — 2-3 hours tour from Malomorets village to the Shaman cape and back and kayaking tours in the Maloye More strait.

 

04.12.2006 20:10:57
«Prison museum» was opened in Irkutsk
A new museum, «the Prison Castle», was opened in Irkutsk on the territory of the oldest prison. Three prison cells recreate the place where the political prisoners of 19020th were held, and where famous Admiral Kolchak spent his last days before the execution.

22.11.2006 20:15:54
Church of Our Savior Revives
November, 20, for the first time since 1931, the Church of Our Savior in Irkutsk held a service. Church of Our Savior is the oldest stone building in the city of Irkutsk, founded in 1704. It is the only building of Irkutsk fort (“ostrog») that survived till nowadays. 75 years – that is exactly how long the church was not functioning. After the bolshevik revolution it was used as a place for shoes repair, then as a store-house, and for the last 25 years it was an exhibition hall of Irkutsk Regional Museum. The decision to return the Church of Our Savior to the Eparchy was made on November, 1 2006. And though the regional museum exhibits are still kept in the building now, but the reconstruction of the church is going on rapidly.