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Buddhism, one of the most ancient religions in the world, was based by Gautama Buddha in VI before Christ. However according to the opinion of the Indian historians, Buddhism was created much earlier, approximately in VII B.C. The base of Buddhism is science about the Four Noble...
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The Republic of Buryatia is democratic jural state, a constituent of the Russian Federation. It belongs to the Siberian Federal District. The capital of the Republic is the city of Ulan-Ude. The population of Buryatia is about 960 000 people of more than 100 different nationalities. 28% of the...
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The Circum-Baikal Railway is considered to be the unique monument of engineering architecture. On May 17, 1891 Tsar Alexander III issued the edict to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to connect the Siberian territory rich in diverse gifts with the inner railways net.
In the beginning of...
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Lake Baikal is a unique lake of our planet. Lake Baikal is a place of superlatives: the deepest, the oldest, the clearest, the cleanest, the highest level of biodiversity, the largest volume of fresh water in the world, and home to flora and fauna that is mostly endemic. For this reason the Baikal...
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After joining Russia, Siberia at once became a principle location for imprisonment at hard labor and exile. There were being exiled the most dangerous, from the government’s point of view, criminals. Among them were, mostly, participants of the popular uprisings, single rebels that came out...
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Following the legend, peoples in the Siberian lands appeared long time ago. At once they found that lands attractive owing to the rich forests and vast steppes. The only problem depressed them: there was no water at all. Once they met on their way an wayfarer that gave them an advice to not search for...
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In the second half of the 17th century, at the time when the Russian Orthodox Church attained the highest dignity its division occurred. The reason for that were the reforms of the patriarch Nikon that were undertaken in order to the unification of the Russian Orthodox Church traditions with the Greek...
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© Photo By: Pavel Ageychenko
Within many centuries, peoples populated the territory of Pribaikalia, called the lake differently. The Chinese people named it “Khan’-Khay” or “Bey-Khay” (“Northern Sea”) in their ancient scripts. The ancient Turki gave...
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The Kurykans
In the first millennium A.D. Pribaikalie was inhabited by a tribal union consisted of three families – the Turks, the Evenks and the Protoburyats that had a common name “Kurykans”. In spite of their little quantity these ancient tribes formed a quite developed and distinctive...
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Shamanism is one of the oldest religious traditions of the mankind, which preceded other world religions. Shamanism, as such, is considered to be primarily Siberian and Central Asian religion. Central and Northern Asia is regarded as shamans’ homeland, and the sacred place for them is Olkhon Island...
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