Listvyanka and Taltsa Museum

The beginning and end of the tour – near your hotel or from any other point in Irkutsk.

The open-air museum complex "Taltsy" is a unique collection of monuments of history, architecture and ethnography of the XVII-XX centuries, located on the banks of the Angara on the 47th kilometer of the Baikal tract on the road from Irkutsk to Baikal.

During your visit to the museum you will see:

With the Russian Angara-Ilimsk exposition zone, in which monuments of wooden architecture of the Baikal region of the XVII - early XX century are collected,

The exposition complex "Volostnoye Village", recreating the administrative center of the late XIX - early XX century, which includes the complex "Volostnoye Governance", the parish school, the psalmist's estate, the city Cossack manor, the Spasskaya Road Tower (1667) and the Kazan Church (1679) of the Ilim prison.

With a cascade of water mills of the late XIX century, a small-scale village consisting of peasant estates of the XVII-XIX centuries, as well as a Buryat winter ulus and a working settlement.

On the territory of the museum you can buy products of folk art from birch bark, clay and vine.

Our acquaintance with Listvyanka will take about 2 hours. During this time, there is an opportunity to visit the Baikal Limnological Museum, the Nerpinariy, the observation deck, the Retro Park Museum, take a water trip on a boat or ship and taste Baikal cuisine.

I will tell you interesting facts about the history of Listvyanka, the Circum-Baikal Railway (Golden Buckle of the Trans-Siberian Railway), the icebreaker fleet on Baikal, interesting legends and tales about the Angara, as well as the history of the development of Eastern Siberia.

Tickets to museums, visiting the nerpinarium, meals in a cafe, souvenirs are paid separately.