SIGHTS OF INTEREST, MUSEUMS AND DATSANS OF ULAN-UDE SUBURBS
Old Believers’ Villages
Villages of old believers, so called Simeyskiye villages, are of a specific wooden architecture. They are Desyathnikovo, Bolshoi Kunaley, Mukhor-Tala. During the tour to a picturesque village old believers will show you their houses that didn’t change from the 18th century. You can see the folk performance with representatives of old believers. You will take exquisite meals with them.
Old Believers of Transbaikalia is a bright ethnic branch of Old Believers exiled to Siberia in XVIII century after the reform of the church, taken by Patriarch Nikon. They were able to save their culture, unwritten songs, religion in their primeval kind.
See the tour to the old believers here.
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