By Clark Henderson, February 2002

Provodnitsa (conductress) in front of our train car. These ladies are
very nice, and not at all like the fierce Babushka's we expected. Don't
speak much English.

Irkutsk Drama Theater. The big light array at right is from the stadium out back

Well preserved Irkutsk "gingerbread" house. Very Dr. Zhivago

Znamensky Monastery church, Irkutsk.

Znamensky behind "containerville" market

Here I demonstrate an important Cossack ritual of courage

Lake Baikal the day we arrived

Ice frosted boats at Port Baikal