Baikalguide.me

24/08/2020

П-ов Святой нос
Holy Nose Peninsula

22/07/2020

Feeding seagulls at Chivyrkuy Bay.

09/06/2020

How to behave what to do in the Center of Buddhism in Russia. Check it out on Baikalguide.me

Ivolginsky Datsan is center of Buddhism in Russia. Come and visit the imperishable body of Khambo Lama Itigelof in ivolginsky datsan

05/06/2020

If you did not know but the center of Russian Buddhism is in Buryatia!

Visit center of Buddhism in Russia in Buryatia. In all areas there are datsans - Buddhist monasteries. The most famous datsan is Ivolginsky the center of buddhism in russia

29/04/2020

Baikal is melting these days and the ice is taking peculiar forms.

17/04/2020

Old Believers (Semeyskie) - a very bright and ancient branch of the Russian people, a particle of pre-Petrine Moscow Russia. Who are they, why did they end up in Transbaikalia and why are they called that?
Get acquainted with them at our website!

12/04/2020

- Come in astronauts! Do you copy? Where you are?!
- We plow the expanses of the galaxy - Buryatia! Now on the planet Baikal! Straight ahead the asteroid "Turtle".
Happy Cosmonautics Day, friends! 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀🌎☄💫🛰

11/04/2020

There are many legends about Pribaikalye. One of them is about the name of River Khaim recorded by the writer Afrikan Balburov.

The legend says that among political exiles there was a Polish Jew, Khaim by name, a very tall grey-bearded old man with a beard to his waist, who walked upright, held his head high. Old Khaim had five sons. They all were choice stalwart and hefty fellows. Khaim and his sons held farmsteads along the Barguzinsky high road, lived in the thick forest at the very peak of the pass. Besides load transportation, the Khaim family did one more secret business. Khaim gave shelter and helped fugitive state convicts. Those days in the taiga near Lake Baikal there were a lot of escapees. The Mountain Watch, set to guard the gold mines, caught and treated them very ruthlessly.

Once Khaim and his sons was leading a group of fugitive convicts across the taiga along the road that only he knew. Somebody followed them and reported to the Mountain Watch. When Khaim understood that they were pursued he told one of his sons to lead the people further on; and he himself with his four sons made an ambush for the watch. The fight with the guards lasted the whole day. The son who led people came back and joined the others. The guards surrounded Khaim and his sons. The latter tried to break away but failed. When they were out of ammunition the blood-stained Khaim and his sons stood upright. Each of them had a knife in his hands; and nobody of them gave up alive. The enraged guards hung Khaim and his sons by their feet in the trees in front of the house along the road. They wanted to teach everybody a lesson and let them see and tell others that it was what waited for those who helped fugitive convicts.

11/03/2020

We're at Old Believers'. Tourists have just got married and we're celebrating!)