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Walking city tour
Period: all year round
Duration: 3 - 5 hrs
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- visit a central square where there is a nice combination
of a Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Savior and Irkutsk Oblast'
Administration building. This is where Russian Cossacks built a
small wooden fort in 1652.
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- visit a monument dedicated to the completion of
Moscow - Irkutsk line of Trans-Siberian in 1898. A bronze statue
of Alexander III (who actually initiated the great railway contraction)
was nocked down in 1920s... It disappeared soon after. The statue
has been replicated and erected again in October 2003.
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- Visiting a lace house - a great example of Siberian
wooden architecture built in the end of IXX century for the Shastins
- well known Irkutsk traders.
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- visit the out of beaten track, the nicest Church
of Mother of our Lord and the Saint Prince Vladimir monastery.
Option: Decembrists museum and a museum of local history.
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Price includes: local guide-interpreter services.
Museum fees are not included.
To find out the price and book the tour, e-mail at: info@baikaler.com
or phone at: + 7 3952 336 240
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