Listvyanka
| Urban-type settlement
Listvyanka
Листвянка
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listwjanka ( Russian Листвянка ) is an urban-type in Siberia 70 kilometers south of Irkutsk near the point at which the Angara the Baikal entfließt. It has 1882 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). The settlement owes its name to the large number of larches (Russian listwennitsa ) that grow in the area. The place, mentioned for the first time in 1773 as a post office or ferry station, was built up as a tourist destination by Intourist . According to the vision of the mayor, Tatiana Wassiljewna Kasakowa, Baikal City is to be built here.
One of the sights of the village is the shaman's rock ( Schamanski arrived or Shaman-came ) in the middle of the Angara. A legend has grown up around him about the old father Baikal and his daughter Angara.
The Limnological Institute, part of the Irkutsk Science Center of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences , was established here as a research station in 1928 and was converted into an institute in 1961. It operates the Baikal Museum in Listvyanka, which provides an overview of the unique flora and fauna of the region, but also of the dimensions and exploration of Lake Baikal.
The Nikolaikirche in the Krestowski Valley is popular with Irkutsk couples as a wedding venue.
According to a legend from the 19th century, the Russian merchant Xenofont Serebjakow was passing through the Baikal. In gratitude for a sea distress that was overcome there, Serebjakow began to build the small wooden church at the source of the Angara and so it was consecrated in 1846. In contrast to the fate of many other churches in the Soviet Union , it survived the de-Christianization during the communist era and was even completely restored in the 1950s. Due to the rising level of Lake Baikal due to the Angara damming, the church was moved to the Krestowski Valley in 1957.
On the beach of Baikal fish omul smoked along with other types of fish and sold. Due to the proximity to Irkutsk and the preferred location on Lake Baikal, many guest houses, hotels and villas are being built.
The International Lake Baikal Ice Marathon runs 42.195 kilometers from Tanchoi to Listvyanka.
The Talzy open - air museum is only 30 kilometers from Listvyanka. Here, the various epochs of the history of Siberia in the past centuries are shown on the basis of an extensive collection of wooden buildings and furnishings.
Photo gallery
Listvyanka seen from Baikal
Shaman rock that marks the beginning of the Angara
Nikolaikirche in the Krestowski Valley
Listvyanka coast in early April
Grayling in an aquarium of the Baikal Museum
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1926 | 1299 |
| 1939 | 4952 |
| 1959 | 2735 |
| 1970 | 2659 |
| 1979 | 2936 |
| 1989 | 2379 |
| 2002 | 1745 |
| 2010 | 1882 |
Note : census data
Web links
swell
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
- ↑ Quick Profit in Baikal City ( Memento from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
