The route passes through the old village of Kochergat with its wooden church and ends on the shore of Baikal.
From 5 June 2026 the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local History runs the bus tour “Irkutsk — Bolshoye Goloustnoye”. The meeting point is the museum’s visitor centre at 13 Karla Marksa Street.
The route follows the Goloustnoye road through Dzerzhinsk, Khudyakova, Goryachy Klyuch, Dobrolyot and Maloye Goloustnoye. In the old village of Kochergat stands the wooden Church of St Alexander of Svir. Along the way are the valleys of the Ushakovka and the Goloustnaya, the Primorsky Range and Pribaikalsky National Park. In Bolshoye Goloustnoye visitors will see St Nicholas Church with its carved icon of St Nicholas, the chapel of the Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God, a relict poplar grove and Sagan-Khada mountain, and then rest on the shore of Baikal. Booking: +7 (3952) 33-62-30.
Source (in Russian): Teleinform, 25 May 2026.
