Leaving Tayshet’s dusty/muddy streets and loco whistles, an interesting excursion is to neighbouring Biryusinsk, once a prosperous timber-processing town on the Trans-Sib. The local museum has some interesting rural knick-knacks, old samovars, a mock-up of a Siberian izba (log house) and a 1950s Soviet nostalgia section. The graves of Lithuanian exiles lie in the cemetery nearby. Biryusinsk is an R31 marshrutka ride from in front of Tayshet station.
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To learn more about the town’s (dark) past visit the Regional Museum, where easily musterable local historians are desperate to tell foreigners their…
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6.96 MILES
To learn more about the town’s (dark) past visit the Regional Museum, where easily musterable local historians are desperate to tell foreigners their…