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 Перевод песни Гимн - Бурятии!!! english version

Taiga, lakes, steppe,
You're good the light of the sun is full.
Blossoming from edge to edge,
Be happy, my own party.

Cranberry spirit, cherry breath,
Violet marsh tea infusion.
I can not breathe, and drink благоуханье
My land, plain and forest.

Take, earth, FILIAL thanks,
The Holy water of lake Baikal offer,
So I got unprecedented force
In the far-the hard way.

With you, the earth, we merged together,
My became and your fate.
Bow to you from the heart, the edge of the dear,
Favorite Buryatia my!

Oh, Mother earth!

(Muz. Anatoly Andreev, etc. Dam Жалсараев)

Ulan-Ude, an ancient trading post like Irkutsk, can be reached from Irkutsk by an overnight train in about 6-7 hours. It lies on the northern edge of the steppes that remind the Canadian prairies.

Buryats are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia. They are close relatives of Mongols, and their language is a dialect of Mongolian. Buddhism of the Tibetan Lamaist variety is the most widespread religion of Buryatia. But shamanist traditions also survive, see The Buryat Home Page: Shamanism, Folklore, and Poetry. Buryatia also has interesting music.

Buddhist monasteries are called datsan (dacan) in Buryatia. The largest one, in Ivolginsk about 30 km south-west of Ulan-Ude is the centre of Buddhism in the Russian Federation. It can be reached by a route-taxi minibus from Ulan-Ude's central bus station. This datsan was the first place I went to visit in Ulan-Ude. Accompanied by Sergey, a biologist working at the Ulan-Ude branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, who was showing me his city.

It was rather cold in the morning, close to -30°C (-22°F), and the side windows of the minibus were all covered by ice. I managed to maintain a tiny hole in this ice layer through which I was recording what we were passing. Later on, when we were approaching the datsan under the mountains, the front seat next to the driver got freed and I moved there.

The monastery is a large fenced off compound containing many buildings of various types. At least one half of them are houses in the traditional Russian style that serve as residences for monks, who are both Buryats and Russians. Then there is the main temple and a number of smaller religious buildings and pagodas, a museum, a little greenhouse with the sacred fig tree (Buddha is said to receive enlightenment under a fig tree), and close to hundred (or more?) of prayer mills of various sizes (most of them much smaller than the one shown above) arranged around the circumference of the compound. The purpose of each mill is to pray for something else, which is often spelled out on the larger mills. One is required to go about the prayer mills in the clockwise direction only. Also to view the interior of the main temple, only walking in the clockwise direction along its walls is allowed. It seems that The clockwise direction seems to be the only right one here.

There were entry fees for the compound, main temple, and museum, and a separate fee for using a video camera within the compound.

One of the landmarks of the city of Ulan-Ude is the largest Lenin head in the world. There are also some fine old merchant 19th century buildings. Buryats and Russian seem to share the city in a harmonious way.

The capital of Buryatia is Ulan-Ude. With the population of 386 000 people, Ulan-Ude is the third largest city in the Eastern Siberia. It’s located in the valley formed by the Selenga and Uda Rivers, approximately 75 km from Lake Baikal. Ulan-Ude is almost three centuries old. Its former name is Verkhneudinsk, which was founded in 1666 by Russian Cossacks, explorers of Siberia and was used primarily as a military outpost. In 1934 Verkhneudinsk was renamed into Ulan-Ude. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was known as a trading center with links to Mongolia, China and Western Europe. Today Ulan-Ude is the industrial, scientific and cultural center of Eastern Siberia. 

One of the largest enterprises of light industry in Buryatia is Ulan-Ude Fine-Cloths Manufactory. It’s a modern textile enterprise carrying out process of production from the treatment of wool to the output of high quality woolen and lighten cloths. High quality and big variety of goods permit the factory to promote its goods to Russian and the world market. The factory got the prestigious international award, The Gold Star “European Rainbow”, in 1995 for the high image and quality. 

LAKE BAIKAL — THE LARGEST FRESH WATER RESOURCE 

Lake Baikal – a natural monument which is included in the list of the World's natural heritage of UNESCO. It is one of the most beautiful and purest places on Earth. Territorially the lake is located in the south of Eastern Siberia. And lies in between the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia. Age of Lake Baikal 25-30 million years, this is one of the most ancient lakes on the earth.

LAKE BAIKAL  IN NUMBERS

Here are the quick facts about Lake Baikal

• Age - 25-30 million years.
• Length - 636 km.
• Width - from 25 to 80 km.
• The maximum depth - 1637 m, average depth - 731 m.
• Coastline length - more than 2000 km.
• Contains  more than 1000 species of plants.
• Contains more than 50 species of fish.
• Contains more than 2500 animal species.

Beautiful Lake Baikal in Russia

Lake Baikal is the largest storage of fresh water in the world. 20% of world reserves of surface fresh waters are concentrated in this lake. It is having a huge variety of the plants and animals living in it. There are 2565  subspecies of animals, 1000 types, subspecies and forms of water plants registered in the lake .

Lake Baikal - The world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake

Baikal also gets in number of the largest lakes of the world. It has the length of 636 km and  its water smooth surface stretches in the area of 3.15 million hectares.  Baikal water is having an amazing transparency. Its separate subjects are visible at a depth up to 40 m.

BAIKAL LAKE A MAGICAL PLACE ON EARTH!

Frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia

Lake Baikal - the deepest lake of the planet Earth. Its depth reaches 1642 meters. In the winter the lake almost completely freezes.  And by the end of winter thickness of ice reaches 1-2 meters. There are 27 islands on the lake. Olkhon island is the largest one.

BAIKAL- A MUST PLACE TO VISIT IN RUSSIA

Listvianka Settlement in Lake Baikal

There are some curative hot spring on coast of Lake Baikal . The natural beauty of the lake remained untouched by a human. The natural environment of Baikal strikes with the beauty, extensive woods, the richest fauna and flora, glacial lakes, canyons. Baikal is a place to be visited again and again.

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Sights

The largest head of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin ever built is in Ulan-Ude

Odigitrievsky Cathedral

The Ethnographic Museum of the peoples of Transbaikal is one of Russia's largest open-air museums. The museum contains historical finds from the era of the Slab Grave Culture and the Xiongnu until the mid 20th century, including a unique collection of samples of wooden architecture of Siberia - more than forty architectural monuments.

Odigitrievsky Cathedral - Orthodox Church Diocese of the Buryat, was the first stone building in the city and is a Siberian baroque architectural monument. The cathedral is considered unique because it is built in a zone of high seismic activity in the heart of the city on the banks of the River Uda River where it flows into the Selenga.

One of the attractions of Ulan-Ude is a monument in the town square — the square of the Soviets — in the form of the head of Lenin (sculptors G.V. Neroda, J.G. Neroda, architects Dushkin, P.G. Zilberman). The monument, weighing 42 tons and with a height of 7.7 meters (25 ft), was opened in 1971 in honor of the centenary of Lenin's birth.[