Olkhon Island: Sacred Cliffs, Shamanic Sites and Lake Baikal’s Wild Heart
The largest island in Lake Baikal and the world's third-largest freshwater lake island, Olkhon Island spans 730 square kilometres with sacred cliffs,…

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Sightseeing in Lake Baikal (Russia): all our guides on one page.
The largest island in Lake Baikal and the world's third-largest freshwater lake island, Olkhon Island spans 730 square kilometres with sacred cliffs,…
Explore Lake Baikal, Siberia's immense freshwater lake, from the villages of Listvyanka and Khuzhir to Olkhon's cliffs, mountain trails and historic railway.
The Kazan Cathedral is the most beautiful cathedral in Volgograd. Built in the elegant Pseudo-Russian style, it stands out among the city's…
The first representative branch of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia outside of Saint Petersburg, located on the territory of the Kazan…
A museum of the peoples of Russia in a Svinyin-designed building behind the Russian Museum, with about half a million objects covering…
One of the world's largest maritime museums, founded in 1709 from Peter the Great's Model Chamber and since 2013 housed in the…








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