Taltsy. Оn the way to Lake Baykal. Siberia. Russia. Full HD

0:00 Irkutsk. Hotel Central 0:28 On our way to Lake Baykal 1:19 Information about the tour 1:41 Babr. Coat of arms of the city of Irkutsk 3:05 Museum Taltsy 3:35 At the Governor’s 4:25 Village administration 4:40 Big Spasskaya Passing Tower 5:10 Village doctor 5:33 Church school 6:01 Manor of Yakov Nepomiluev 7:05 German washing machine 8:05 At the blacksmith 8:24 Buryat yurt 9:02 On the banks of the Angara And the next morning our guide Andrey was waiting for us in his wonderful minivan at the entrance of the hotel. And so we set off for our first excursion to Lake Baikal! Namely to the village Listvyanka, an old settlement of the Russians at Lake Baikal. From Irkutsk to Listvyanka is 70 kilometers. This excursion is titled “Perfect Day at Lake Baikal“. In addition to visiting Lake Baikal itself, this tour includes a visit to the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum, as well as the Baikal Museum of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the description of the tour you will find a link to this page. An interesting story is the coat of arms of the city of Irkutsk, which shows a running babr carrying a sable in his teeth. In reality, babr - in Farsi - is simply a tiger ... In 1790, Empress Catherine the Second approved the depiction of a tiger with a sable in its teeth in the city’s coat of arms. But during the reform of Russian heraldry, in 1880, in the description of the coat of arms: “in a silver field, a babr running through green grass with sable in its mouth“, the babr was mistakenly changed into a beaver, and in accordance with the description, the coat of arms itself was also changed, adding elements of a beaver to the image of a tiger, namely a large tail and webbed paws. Thus was created a kind of mythical creature called Babr, which we see today in the coat of arms of Irkutsk. The first stop on the way to Lake Baikal is the architectural and ethnographic museum in Taltsy. On the place of the museum there used to be a large Siberian village, Taltsy. Unfortunately, in 1958, after the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power plant, most of the village was flooded. People began to bring historically valuable wooden houses from all over the area to the non-flooded hill to save them from the water. Thus, in 1969, the architectural and ethnographic museum Taltsy was born. The museum received its first visitors in 1980. Currently, the museum houses over forty architectural monuments. The most significant of them are the Great Spasskaya Travel Tower from the southern wall of the Ilimsk prison, built in 1667, and the Kazan Gate Church from 1697, also from Ilimsk, which went under water. Taltsy... an extremely atmospheric open-air museum. And you breathe easy and somehow you feel light and mental walking through this old Siberian village. And Andrei, our wonderful tour guide, added a lot to our mental mood with his interesting stories, local tales … I even think that it would be more correct to say that Andrei created this magic of silent Siberian happiness to a great extent himself. Goodbye Taltsy... let us move on... to a meeting with a truly unique place... with a true wonder of planetary proportions... Lake Baikal... LINKS: #travel #travelvlog #traveling #travelblogger #placestovisit #whattosee #russia