Russia/Irkutsk (Walking tour 1) Part 20
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.
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밤새도록 달린 기차는 다음날 아침 7시쯤 드디어 이르쿠츠크에 도착했다. 지어진 지 １００년이 넘는 기차역이 인상적이다. “안녕히 가세요” 이르쿠츠크의 명물인 트램 버스를 타고 시내를 한 바퀴 둘러보기로 했다. 이르쿠츠크에는 유럽풍의 옛날 건물들이 아름답게 들어서 있다. 때문에 이르쿠츠크는 ‘시베리아의 파리’, 또는 ‘작은 상트페테르부르크’로 불린다. 제정러시아 때 이곳에 왔던 사람들은 시베리아에 이런 도시가 있다는 사실에 놀라움을 금치 못했다고 한다. 그만큼 이르쿠츠크는 낯설고도 아름다운 도시다. 이 도시는 알렉산드르 ３세 때 시베리아횡단철도 건설이 시작되면서 본격적으로 개발되기 시작했다. 올해가 시베리아횡단철도가 완공된 지 꼭 １００년이 되는 해다. 이르쿠츠크에서 가장 아름다운 정교 사원 중 하나라는 즈나멘스키 수도원을 찾았다. 마침 예배가 진행되고 있었다. 러시아 정교의 예배는 무척이나 경건하고 장엄하다. 러시아 사람들의 삶과 문화, 예술에서 정교가 천 년 동안 얼마나 큰 자리를 차지해 왔는지 어렴풋이 알 것 같다.
[English: Google Translator]
Trains ran all night from 7 o'clock in the morning had finally arrived in Irkutsk. The train station was built more than 100 years it is not impressive. Good-bye to one wheel was to explore the city's famous trams bus ride from Irkutsk. There are beautiful old buildings in Irkutsk lift a European. Because of Irkutsk is referred to as the 'Paris of Siberia , or small St. Petersburg. It is established when the Russians came in and did surprised at the fact that this city in Siberia. Irkutsk is also so strange and beautiful city. The city as the Trans-Siberian Railway begins when Alexander III began to develop in earnest. This year is the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway haeda not necessarily be 100 years. It found four won one of the most beautiful Orthodox monasteries of the ski's namen in Irkutsk. Finish worship was in progress. Worship of the Russian Orthodox Church is very much reverence and solemnity. Elaborate on the life and culture of the Russian people, art came accounted for much larger place for a thousand years it seems vaguely know.
[Russia : Google Translator]
Поезда бежали всю ночь с 7 часов утра, наконец, прибыл в Иркутск. Железнодорожный вокзал был построен более 100 лет не впечатляет. До свидания, сказал одно колесо, чтобы исследовать известные трамваи города ездить на автобусе в Иркутск. Есть красивые старые здания в Иркутске поднять европейский. Из Иркутска упоминается как Париж Сибири, или маленький Санкт-Петербурга. Установлено, когда русские пришли и не удивляет тот факт, что этот город в Сибири. Иркутск тоже так странно и красивый город. Город как Транссибу начинается тогда, когда Александр III начал развиваться всерьез. В этом году Транссибирская магистраль была завершена не haeda обязательно 100 лет. Он нашел четыре выиграл один из самых красивых православных монастырей Намюр горнолыжных склонов и в Иркутске. Поклонение Конец был в стадии разработки. Поклонение Русской Православной Церкви очень благоговением и торжественностью. Выработать о жизни и культуре русского народа, искусство вышло приходилось гораздо больше места на тысячу лет, кажется, смутно знают.
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Irkutsk and Lake Baikal in winter - 1967
Иркутск и Байкал холодной зимой 1967 года
Irkutsk and Lake Baikal in the cold winter of 1967
Here I present another fascinating set of photographs from my series of The Soviet Union in the 1960s.
For me, what is remarkable about these photographs is that little has changed here in the past 50 years
The monument is dedicated to Emperor Alexander III, the father of the Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia. The statue still stands to this day..... The photographs of Lake Baikal are mainly centred around the village of Listvyanka. I spent a weekend here not so long ago and walked down the street with the traditional wooden houses.
Music:
From 'The Lady & the Hooligan by D. Shostakovich
Trans-Siberian Tour - Irkutsk walk
Trans-Siberian Tour - Irkutsk walk
You will see a lot of Traditional Siberian Wooden Houses, The Babr (The Symbol of the City), the Marussia Hotel, the Statue of Comrade Lenin, the River Front, the Famous Babr burger and much more...
Video by Hans Kemp - hanskemp.com
Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia wedding.
I asked this guy What is the #1 issue in the world?
Global warming
and the need to build 100-panel solar homes
to stop the climate meltdown.
Then he sang this song for me.
We are in Russia, Mongolia & China looking at the explosive growth of windmills along the Trans Siberian Railroad.
This is the first real step to stopping global warming.
Ask not what your government can do for you.
Ask what,...
and that What is you can really build a 100-panel solar home.
Atomic energy is dead.
Put the solar home before the e-car.
Building 100-panel solar homes creates millions of local jobs
that cannot be off-shored,
like building 100-panel solar homes does.
Best way to ban fracking is to build 100-panel solar homes.
Pre-fabricated solar homes.
The income from solar in Maine ( $0.33 kwh )
pays off the cost of a solar home in 20 years,
if you have 100 solar panels.
Lake Baikal, Russia on $200 (2 episode).
Lake Baikal is the world’s largest body of fresh water but there is more than H2O in this mystical region that every Russian dreams of visiting. From ice meters thick, to bizarre cliffs and ice grottos, it is truly a natural wonder especially in winter when the ice becomes like a highway for adventurers. In this second and final part of our series Tim will explore all the wonders of Lake Baikal. If you missed the first part about Irkutsk and Taltsy then click on this link - and enjoy!
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Russia/Irkuts (Walking tour) Part 22
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.Wikipedia
HEY RUSSIA, YOU FORGOT SOMETHING...
Just a Russian monument in Berlin, an old scrap heap as a way to remind us of the not so gentle past. Very hard avoiding the W-word here. But I must to keep the youtube algorithm at a distance...
China/Harbin (Frozen River Songhua) Part 16
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Songhua River/Harbin-China:
The Songhua River (Chinese pinyin: Sōnghuā Jiāng) is the largest tributary of the Heilong River. It ranks the fifth longest river in China, runs about 1,897 kilometers long and covers a drainage area of 545,600 square kilometers. The source of the river is a crater lake called Heavenly Lake with an elevation of 2,189 meters at the top of the Changbai Mountain, which borders North Korea in China’s Jilin Province. The water falls down from the Heavenly Lake and forms a waterfall, as if the water rushes down from heaven. Hence the local Manchu inhabitant called it Songga-liwula (means Heavenly Lake). It is considered that its Chinese name Songhua is from its Manchurian pronunciation - Songga-liwula.
The river is 4 meters in depth and 1 kilometer in width on average in Harbin reach. Songhua River has more than 900 branches in large and small size. The river is frozen over from November to April the next year.
As the largest branch of the Heilong River, Songhua River winding through Harbin for 117 kilometers and served as an important artery for the development of the city. In the 17th century, under the reign of Emperor Kangxi, naval ships were stationed along these areas, and resisted the invading Russian enemy successfully. After that, in 1689, Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed. That is the first border agreement between the Qing government and the imperial Russian government. On June 6th, 1898, a Russia warship taken on the engineers and surveyors to made a topographic map for building the China-East Railway. There landing point is where the Flood Control Monument located now. From then on, the river became busy and lots of material needed for build the railway were transported through this River and then, a modern city was erected at the south bank of Songhua River.
Three big bridges have been built over the river, and one of them connected the south bank of Harbin and Sun Island was built in 1983 and opened to traffic in 1986. This bridge approach or the leading bridge on the south bank of the Songhua River was designed to have two circles. So the whole bridge was like a scissors and the bridge approach is like the scissors’ handle.
The Songhua River in winter is no less bustling than a summer bathing beach. It's frozen hard with ice nearly one meter thick, turning it into a huge playground for all kinds of ice sports. You can go swimming, skating and ice sailing, or ride in ice junks or horse-drawn sleighs.
China/Harbin Ice-snow Festival 2017 Part 6
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Winter culture in Harbin/China:
Located in northern Northeast China, Harbin is the northernmost among major cities in China. Under the direct influence of the Siberian Anticyclone, the average daily temperature is −19.7 °C (−3.5 °F) in winter. Annual low temperatures below −35.0 °C (−31.0 °F) are not uncommon. Nicknamed Ice City due to its freezing cold winter, Harbin is decorated by various styles of Ice and snow Sculptures from December to March every year.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1985. Although the official start date is 5 January each year, in practice, many of the sculptures can be seen before. While there are ice sculptures throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: enormous snow sculptures at Sun Island (Taiyang Dao, a AAAAA-rated recreational area on the opposite side of the Songhua River from the city) and the separate Ice and Snow World that operates each night with lights switched on, illuminating the sculptures from both inside and outside. Ice and Snow World features illuminated full-size buildings made from blocks of 2–3 feet thick crystal clear ice directly taken from the Songhua River which passes through the city. The sculptures inside the exhibition ground takes 15,000 workers to work for 16 days. In early December, ice artisans cut 120,000 cubic metres (4.2 million cubic feet) of ice blocks from Songhua river's frozen surface as raw materials for the ice sculptures' show. Massive ice buildings, large-scale snow sculptures, ice slides, festival food and drinks can also be found in several parks and major avenues in the city. Winter activities in the festival include Yabuli Alpine Skiing, snow mobile driving, winter-swimming in Songhua River, and the traditional ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden, which was first held in 1963. Snow carving and ice and snow recreations are famous nationwide, especially among Asian countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is one of the four largest ice and snow festivals in the world, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Holmenkollen Ski Festival.
Every November, the city of Harbin sends teams of ice artisans to the United States to promote their unique art form. It takes more than 100 artisans to create ICE!, the annual display of indoor Christmas-themed ice carvings in National Harbor, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Kissimmee, Florida; and Grapevine, Texas.Wikipedia
China/Harbin (Ice Festival by night 2017) Part 13
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Winter culture in Harbin/China:
Located in northern Northeast China, Harbin is the northernmost among major cities in China. Under the direct influence of the Siberian Anticyclone, the average daily temperature is −19.7 °C (−3.5 °F) in winter. Annual low temperatures below −35.0 °C (−31.0 °F) are not uncommon. Nicknamed Ice City due to its freezing cold winter, Harbin is decorated by various styles of Ice and snow Sculptures from December to March every year.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1985. Although the official start date is 5 January each year, in practice, many of the sculptures can be seen before. While there are ice sculptures throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: enormous snow sculptures at Sun Island (Taiyang Dao, a AAAAA-rated recreational area on the opposite side of the Songhua River from the city) and the separate Ice and Snow World that operates each night with lights switched on, illuminating the sculptures from both inside and outside. Ice and Snow World features illuminated full-size buildings made from blocks of 2–3 feet thick crystal clear ice directly taken from the Songhua River which passes through the city. The sculptures inside the exhibition ground takes 15,000 workers to work for 16 days. In early December, ice artisans cut 120,000 cubic metres (4.2 million cubic feet) of ice blocks from Songhua river's frozen surface as raw materials for the ice sculptures' show. Massive ice buildings, large-scale snow sculptures, ice slides, festival food and drinks can also be found in several parks and major avenues in the city. Winter activities in the festival include Yabuli Alpine Skiing, snow mobile driving, winter-swimming in Songhua River, and the traditional ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden, which was first held in 1963. Snow carving and ice and snow recreations are famous nationwide, especially among Asian countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is one of the four largest ice and snow festivals in the world, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Holmenkollen Ski Festival.
Every November, the city of Harbin sends teams of ice artisans to the United States to promote their unique art form. It takes more than 100 artisans to create ICE!, the annual display of indoor Christmas-themed ice carvings in National Harbor, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Kissimmee, Florida; and Grapevine, Texas.Wikipedia
Lukomorye 2016. Documentary film.
This film was made during the International Festival of wooden sculptures Lukomorye 2016. Angarsk, Russia.
Документальный фильм Фестиваль в парке ЛУКОМОРЬЕ.
Наша первая работа.
Съемка, монтаж - Дмитрий Швецов.
Мое: сценарий, закадровый текст, режиссура, подбор музыки, субтитры.
China/Harbin (Ice Festival by night 2017) Part 12
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Winter culture in Harbin/China:
Located in northern Northeast China, Harbin is the northernmost among major cities in China. Under the direct influence of the Siberian Anticyclone, the average daily temperature is −19.7 °C (−3.5 °F) in winter. Annual low temperatures below −35.0 °C (−31.0 °F) are not uncommon. Nicknamed Ice City due to its freezing cold winter, Harbin is decorated by various styles of Ice and snow Sculptures from December to March every year.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival has been held since 1985. Although the official start date is 5 January each year, in practice, many of the sculptures can be seen before. While there are ice sculptures throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: enormous snow sculptures at Sun Island (Taiyang Dao, a AAAAA-rated recreational area on the opposite side of the Songhua River from the city) and the separate Ice and Snow World that operates each night with lights switched on, illuminating the sculptures from both inside and outside. Ice and Snow World features illuminated full-size buildings made from blocks of 2–3 feet thick crystal clear ice directly taken from the Songhua River which passes through the city. The sculptures inside the exhibition ground takes 15,000 workers to work for 16 days. In early December, ice artisans cut 120,000 cubic metres (4.2 million cubic feet) of ice blocks from Songhua river's frozen surface as raw materials for the ice sculptures' show. Massive ice buildings, large-scale snow sculptures, ice slides, festival food and drinks can also be found in several parks and major avenues in the city. Winter activities in the festival include Yabuli Alpine Skiing, snow mobile driving, winter-swimming in Songhua River, and the traditional ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden, which was first held in 1963. Snow carving and ice and snow recreations are famous nationwide, especially among Asian countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is one of the four largest ice and snow festivals in the world, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Holmenkollen Ski Festival.
Every November, the city of Harbin sends teams of ice artisans to the United States to promote their unique art form. It takes more than 100 artisans to create ICE!, the annual display of indoor Christmas-themed ice carvings in National Harbor, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Kissimmee, Florida; and Grapevine, Texas.Wikipedia
Lake Baikal Environmental Monitoring - SC297- June 2013
Video project by Galina Popova and MCTV.
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The Kazan Mother of God Cathedral in Moscow.
This cathedral housed one of the most sacred icons in Russian Orthodox Christianity. It was the Theotokos (God Bearer) of Kazan. This icon was said to be especially puissant, Because it was carried into battle against the Poles and Lithuanians the Lord blessed Russia with victory. Many people attend divine worship there on the Day of National Unity. 4 November is the Day of National Unity because on this day the Polish Army was driven out of Moscow in 1612. The Our Lady of Kazan Icon disappeared in 1904. Nevertheless this cathedral has a special place in the hearts of the Orthodox people. 4 November is a day for the veneration of the icon.