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Ulan-Ude

Country:
Russian Federation
State:
Republic of Buryatia
City:
Ulan-Ude
Type of Location:
Multiple
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How to Reach

By Air

Lake Baikal Airport (IATA: UUD, ICAO: UIUU) is an international airport located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Ulan-Ude, Russia.The airport includes a single terminal built in early 1980s featuring customs and border control facilities.With capacity of 400 passengers per hour, the airport served 167,126 passengers in 2010, a 29% increase over 2009.Another airport served by Ulan-ude is Ulan-Ude Vostochny Airport is an airport in the Buryat Republic, Russia located 9 km east of Ulan Ude. It services medium-size airliners.The airfield served as a bomber staging base.There is considerable tarmac space, with three 400x125m tarmacs and a few alert revetments.

By Train

As Ulan-Ude stands in the middle of Trans-Siberian route connecting it to Trans-Mongolian railway, there are a lot of trains passing it by from any direction such as Moscow in the west, Ulaan-Bataar from the south and Vladivostok from the east.There are many daily trains to Irkutsk (takes 8 hours), Chita.There is a couple of trains to Ulaan-Baatar. Ulan Ude is the first major Russian city past the Mongolian border. It takes around 20 hours by train from UB.The famous among backpackers way to get to Ulan Ude is to take a four day journey from Moscow.

By Bus

There are daily buses from and to Ulaanbaatar.Departing at 7.30am from either UB or UU, taking about 10-12 hours.This is a much cheaper and faster alternative to the train.Minibuses operate a service to the Mongolian border town of Kyakhta.The buses depart every hour from 7am to 7pm and the three hour journey costs 250R.There is a bus service operating both to Irkutsk and Chita, but the frequency depends on the season.Departs from the train station.Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk train station is 700 roubles.You just come to the bus occupy seats and pay to the driver.

Key places to visit
Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum, Odigitrievsky Cathedral, Verkhneudinsk Fair, Holy Trinity Church, Museum of history of Buryatia, Ulan-Ude Drama Theatre, Nature Museum of Buryatia, Museum of the History of Ulan-Ude

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Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum

is an outdoor museum, located in the village Upper Berezovka, eight kilometres northeast of Ulan-Ude, Buryatia.The museum opened on July 6, 1973 and is one of the largest open air museums in Russia, covering an area of 37 hectares.The museum has collected more than 40 architectural monuments and the museums collection exceeds 11,000 exhibits.One of the first pieces in the museum's collection was Nikolsk Church from the town of Nikolsk.The Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum is one of the largest open air museums in Russia.The museum covers an area of 37 hectares and has more than 40 buildings and more than 11,000 objects.The museum is divided into several complexes.The territory of the museum is divided into seven complexes; the Archaeological Complex, which consists of a private pavilion and open area the Evenkijskij complex the Buryat Complex which consists of the gers (such as wood and felt) and Buddhist construction etc the Cis-Baikal Complex which contains a Buryat Cossack house, transferred to the museum in 1975, the Zabaikalsky complex which contains a barn and an old complex with peasant tools and barn.

Odigitrievsky Cathedral

is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in the old downtown of Ulan Ude, Russia.It is dedicated to the icon of the Theotokos known in Greek as Hodegetria, hence the name.Construction was begun in 1741 and was finished in 1785.During the Soviet era the cathedral was used as an anti-religious museum.The cathedral underwent renovations after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Verkhneudinsk Fair

is the largest in Lake Baikal Fair, held in Verkhneudinsk.The importance of Verkhneudinsky trade is reflected in the arms of the city on a gold field by Mercury staff and a cornucopia in a sign that the city is notable bargaining and conditions of bargaining.Verkhneudinsk Fair played a major role in supplying the bread of the Chita Region and Nerchinsk region, as Verkhneudinsky district was the most developed in Transbaikalia in the agricultural terms.Turns Verkhneudinsky fairs have increased significantly following the accession of the Amur region and development of gold mining.Fair reached its greatest prosperity in the 1860's, when import of goods increased by 1.5 million rubles.Most of the goods sold for cash, on credit operations accounted for only about 30% of turnover.At the same time began to decrease the volume of trade in furs on Verkhneudinsky Fair.Furs began to send directly to Irkutsk, Irbit at the Nizhny Novgorod fair.In addition, merchants have learned to Nerchinsk independently procure goods in the European part of Russia on the Amur appeared steamers, tea from China starts to import on the Amur.

Holy Trinity Church

one of the oldest churches in the city of Ulan-Ude.Building wooden graveyard of Trinity Church began in 1770.In the 1,798 - 1809 гоaу temple is built of stone.Began construction Verkhneudinsky merchant Vasily Pakholkov and completed merchant Athanasius attacks.The main temple of the Holy Trinity was consecrated in 1816.North aisle of the Protection of the Mother of God was consecrated in 1818, the south aisle of St. Innocent of Irkutsk miracle worker in 1856.In 1857 they began to build a stone fence the cemetery.In 1929 the Holy Odigitrievsky cathedral was closed and services began to be held at Trinity Church.In 1940 Holy Trinity church was closed. The building of the temple is located warehouse box office.The cemetery was demolished in 1949.Cemetery turned into a city park.Go to the church built a dance floor.Planned in the building of the temple to open a museum of architecture Ulan-Ude.

Museum of history of Buryatia

is located in the city of Ulan-Ude.In 1924 the museum began work in early April.The museum exposition occupied three rooms.The museum exhibits were transferred Burvystkoma and Pribgubvystkoma.The museum's collection was divided into three sections: the cultural-historical, natural history, socio-economic.From May 18 to September 15, 1924 supplemented by the museum in 1199 subjects.In autumn 1924, the museum began to move into the building of the former shop-mall merchant Vtorov Lenin Str., 21.July 12 1983 in Ulan-Ude joined the Nature Museum of Buryatia.The museum was established on the basis of the nature Verkhneudinsk museum.The museum has a documentary fund A. D. Startsev : letters and photographs, including the Japanese masters.One of the biggest assets of the museum - archives W. P. Girchenko manuscripts, articles, newspaper clippings, speeches at conferences, letters, photographs, etc.As part of the fund, MN Khangalov diary with entries about the expeditions of 1911 - 1917 years, pictures, license, list of publications, receipt, an album with pictures of his daughter Sophia, and others.

Ulan-Ude Drama Theatre

the first professional theater in Buryatia.In October 1928 Verkhneudinsk now the city of Ulan-Ude, visited the theater named "Moscow mobile Organizing synthetic theater of the International Red Stadium and Osoaviahima USSR under the direction of EP Prosvetova.Orgteatr went on tour in Beijing.In Vladivostke the theater artists have joined the Moscow Operetta.In December 1928 he returned to Orgteatr Verkhneudinsk and gave a performance Faiko A. "A man with a briefcase," December 22.Orgteatru were invited to stay in Verkhneudinsk theater and accepted the offer.The first artistic director and director of the theater was EP clearance (1894-1958).The theater staged vaudeville, sideshow, skits, dance and sports studies and scenes.Orgteatr organized by the People's Commissariat of the Republic of drama school, which in 1931 was transformed into the College of Arts.

Nature Museum of Buryatia

a museum located in the city of Ulan-Ude.State Museum, opened in 1983 on the basis of the nature Verkhneudinsk museum . The only independent museum of nature in Siberia and the Far East, a member of "Open Museum", the main mission - environmental education.Collection consists of seven groups of storage: zoology, botany, paleontology, appliances and things, pictures and diagrams, geology, photos and slides. Conducts research work on The population ecology of birds and transformed territories, Rhode cotoneaster ecosystems in the Baikal region, The status of women in Buddhism from India, Mongolia and Buryatia.The exhibition is a landscape by using the original architectural and artistic solutions, located in 5 rooms. Main theme of the exhibition - Man and Nature.Reflects the natural wealth of Buryatia, the relationship between man and nature protection issues.The central theme Lake Baikal.

Museum of the History of Ulan-Ude

was founded December 10 1999 Resolution of the City Administration of Ulan-Ude.In June 2000 the museum began working at the address. Sverdlov, 13.In March 2001 the mayor of Ulan-Ude allocated for the museum house of the merchant hereditary honorary citizen Ivan Flegontovicha Goldobin in historic downtown at st. Lenina 26.From September 2001 to June 2004 restored historic home interior view.Irkutsk merchant I-th guild I. F. Goldobin bought the estate in the heart of Verkhneudinsk in 1879.The estate was rebuilt according to the drawings, NA Pauw. In 1880 started reconstruction of outbuilding.According to the project in 1888 the estate was built one-storey wooden house (Lenin Street, 26), a stone outbuilding with basement distillery (not preserved).June 21 1891 in the house stopped Goldobin heir to the throne Nicholas II, was returning from a trip around the world.In 1892 after the death of the owner of the estate of F. Goldobin became his wife, Elizabeth I. Goldobin (later Kukel ).In the 1900s, the years of Elizabeth I. moved to Kiev and the owner of the manor was the son of Ivan Flegontovicha - Nikolai Goldobin.After the October Revolution the house was requisitioned by the Board of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers' Deputies.In the years of Soviet power in the house are various institutions, some of the premises used as residential apartments.The museum illustrates the exposure-related history Verkhneudinsk and Ulan-Ude.

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October - March
June - September

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