Museums of Ulan-Ude. Ulan-Ude museum.
BURYATIA REGIONS
SIGHTINGS OF THE BURYATIA
Regions and centers of tourism
ULAN-UDE AND ULAN-UDE SUBURBS
Ulan-Ude. Modern Ulan-Ude is a large
administrative, industrial, trading, cultural and scientific centre of Eastern
Siberia.
Last years the city has developed also as the main centre of tourism of
Buryatia. Museums attractive for visitors, theatres, cinemas work here, hotels
receive visitors, shops and shopping centers, cafe and restaurants, banks and
points of currency exchange, insurance companies, objects of leisure and
entertainments work, modern means of communication are developing. The visitors
can use a help of room bureaus, accommodate in guesthouses and apartments. In
the city objects of architecture and monuments of the past have been kept, some
of them are sights and curiosities.
THE KABANSKY REGION
Kabansky region is rather independent tourist area of Buryatia. It is located
along the southeast coast of Baikal from the Oblom cape in the north up to the
Snezhnaya River in the south and also borders on Irkutsk oblast. From the west
it is washed by waters of Baikal Lake, from the east it is limited with mountain
ranges of Ulan-Burgasy and Khamar-Daban. The Selenga River divides the region
almost into two equal parts. The basic territory represents a wide valley in the
mouth of the Selenga with the area of 13, 5 thousand sq. km, 462 m above the sea
level. The territory of the region is cut up by numerous channels of rivers
flowing into Baikal: the Abramikha, the Kultushnaya, the Manturikha, the Mysovka,
the Bolshaya, the Pereemnaya, the Tankhoi, the Snezhnaya, the Vydrinaya and
other rivers. The region got its name from the name of the river Kaban'ya in the
valley of which wild boars had been found before.
PRIBAYKALYE
Pribaikalye is the name of the territory near Baikal Lake, stretched
along its eastern coast, crossed by valleys of the river Selenga, Turka, Itanets,
Kika, Khaim, Kotochik, and also a number of small rivers. Along the coast of
Baikal mountain spurs of the ranges Ulan-Burgasy, Golondinsky and Morskoi are
located. Between spurs of the range Ulan-Burgasy there are steppe valleys. In
the mouths of flowing rivers low-marshy sites with the system of lakes among
which the largest is the lake Kotokel are distributed.
PODLEMORYE
Podlemorie. This poetic name is a name of a part of the northeast
coast of Baikal Lake from the Dagarskaya guba in the north and up to the valley
of the river Bolshoi Chivyrkuy in the south. Podlemorie is a wide coastal plain
near the lake, which is gradually passing in slopes of the Barguzinsky range.
Along Podlemorie as well as in many other places on the coast of Baikal, there
are traces of the glacial period in the Barguzin range.
BARGUZINSKAYA VALLEY
Barguzinsky valley is unique, beautiful, picturesque, rich in landscapes and
natural complexes, history, cultures, and the most perspective tourist
directions of Baikal region. Across the valley there is a way running from the
lake Baikal to the Barguzinsky range, sources and resorts of Kurumkansky region.
Experts of the World Bank mentioned it among optimum eco tourist territories,
and authors of the International Russian-American project "the Complex program
of the policy of land tenure for the Russian territory of Baikal lake pool "
("The Devis Project ", 1993.) offered to turn valley into the national park.
THE TUNKA VALLEY
The Tunkinskaya valley is considered
to be one of the natural pearls of Buryatia. It is the continuation of the
Baikal hollow and having stretched almost 200 kms long, it occupies the
territory bigger than the territory of Belgium.
THE KYAKHTINSKY REGION
The town of Kyakhta is an administrative centre of Kyakhtinsky region. 235 km
away from Ulan-Ude. It is
located on the Russian - Mongolian frontier. The town has received its name from
the Buryat word "hyag", that in translation into Russian means "wheat grass".
The town has the status of " Historical town of Russia ”, its past abounds in
the events connected to the history of the Russian - Chinese relations, Russian
trade and merchants, epoch of geographical discoverings in the Central Asia.
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