On 16 May cultural institutions of the Irkutsk Region prepared about a hundred events: settlers’ farmsteads at Taltsy, a ball at the Volkonsky House and tours of the icebreaker.
On 16 May 2026 the Irkutsk Region joined the Night of Museums on the theme “Native”, devoted to the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia, with about a hundred events.
At Taltsy the programme was devoted to the culture of settlers: the Belarusian, Ukrainian and Tatar farmsteads, the mosque and the houses of the Golendry settlers; a new exhibition about the Stolypin agrarian reform was also announced for that day. The Volkonsky House Museum presented the programme “From Ship to Ball” with Nicholas I, Muravyov-Amursky and Nevelskoy. The Window to Asia department of the regional museum held sessions on archaeology and stone working, and on the icebreaker Angara there were tours on the history and design of the ship and a “message to the future” in a bottle. The art museum prepared more than 50 events, including ethnic games and a Buryat yokhor dance master class at the Sukachev Estate.
Source (in Russian): IrkutskMedia, preview of 16 May 2026.
