Lake Baikal
Amid the nearby railway repair sheds and admin buildings you'll find this fascinating little museum housed in an ornate wooden building set back from ul…
Must-see attractions in Eastern Siberia
Tuva
Delicately etched ancient stonework is the star attraction at this museum in Kyzyl-Mazhalyk, alongside an independence-era newspaper printed in the Tuvan…
Krzyzanovsky & Starkov Flat Museum
Eastern Siberia
Lenin's friend Gleb Krzyzanovski moved into this flat as an exiled revolutionary in 1898. It was here that he started developing an interest in electric…
God's Mother of Kazan Cathedral
Eastern Siberia
A strange sight in a town built by Komsomol (Youth Communist League) enthusiasts, the town's new Orthodox church sports two impressive onion domes in…
Tuva
The tiny and obviously underfunded Museum of Oppression has touching dog-eared photographs of those who disappeared in the Stalin years. Across the grass…
Eastern Siberia
To learn more about the town’s (dark) past visit the Regional Museum, where easily musterable local historians are desperate to tell foreigners their…
Olkhon Island
Khuzhir’s small museum displays a random mix of stuffed animals, Soviet-era junk, local art and the personal possessions of its founder, Nikolai Revyakin,…
Irkutsk
The gigantic Kazansky Church is a theme-park-esque confection of salmon-pink walls and fluoro turquoise domes topped with gold baubled crosses. Get off…
Lake Baikal
Hidden in the village school and difficult to access, this small museum has some interesting Decembrist-related exhibits as well as the usual dusty rocks…
Krasnoyarsk
The top-heavy but elegant Resurrection Church (1804–22) was decapitated in the 1930s but given a new tower in 1998–99. Its icon-filled interior billows…
Eastern Siberia
Earlier exiles are the theme of the Decembrist Museum in a hard-to-find location one block west from the church and three blocks north along ul Oborony.
Ulan-Ude
This museum displays rocks, crystals and ores from the shores of Lake Baikal as well as art (for sale) made using multihued grit, sand and pebbles.
Listvyanka
Listvyanka’s small mid-19th-century timber church is dedicated to St Nicholas, who supposedly saved its merchant sponsor from a Baikal shipwreck.
Lake Baikal
Opposite the quaint little post office, the wooden-colonnaded former Uezdnogo Bank was once the grand home of Decembrist Mikhail Kyukhelbeker.
Eastern Siberia
In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.
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