Seasonal Travel 1 min read
The 300th-anniversary summer: the “V Listvyanke Yest” festival runs from 1 August to 3 September
The festival in honour of the village’s anniversary will end with the tenth omul festival.
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Topic: food
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Food & Local Cuisine 1 min read
Bronze figures of the Rybov family will appear in Listvyanka
The art objects will be placed along tourist routes for the village’s 300th anniversary; the festive season will end with the omul festival.
Food & Local Cuisine 1 min read
A restaurant of late-19th-century Baikal cuisine opens in a historic house on Sukhe-Batora Street
The Pepel restaurant is in the house where the geologist and explorer Sergei Peretolchin lived.
Food & Local Cuisine 1 min read
Pancakes, a tavern and an effigy: Maslenitsa at Taltsy
On 21 and 22 February 2026 the museum of wooden architecture celebrated Maslenitsa with folk games and treats.
Food & Local Cuisine 1 min read
“Sytyy Babr 2025”: a Siberian cuisine food lecture hall by the monument to Alexander III
Irkutsk chefs spent two days cooking Siberian dishes, and confectioners baked a three-tier cake 36 square metres in size.