Irkutsk was a place where I could rest a little as I had to pick up my Mongolian visa... It definitely has quite some charm and efforts are visible to maintain and even increase it....
Nicolai Dolgushev proved to be an excellent guide and host...
A former palace already changed to an educational institution before the revolution...
Irkutsk Branch
Here a link to the 'Decembrists': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
Descendants of the Trubetzkoy family visited the house and contributed some items...
The pedestrian zone...
Some of the old buildings are taken down and rebuilt in this area of town....
And this one is being taken down probably to be rebuilt at another location...
And this was our excursion to Lake Baikal, sadly not in perfect weather...
Nicolai
As it turned out this was an old Doppelmayr...
These Datchas already command premium prices...
....on the beach....
...the water is 14C cold....
The fish market....
Wieder tolle Bilder. Wir folgen dir gespannt. Grüße von dahoam.
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