Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
Private investors have given the city back two wooden houses from the 1880s
Restoring the mansions on Trilissera and Baikalskaya streets took four years.
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Topic: restoration
History, architecture, Baikal, food and the seasons — writing that helps you see more than meets the eye.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
The house where architect Kudelsky lived has been taken apart and reassembled
The adobe walls were strengthened with a reinforced-concrete frame in order to keep the original material.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
The bell tower of the Epiphany Cathedral is being saved from Soviet-era plaster
The cement-and-sand render did not let moisture escape and the brick beneath it decayed. The aim is to restore the bell tower for the diocese’s 300th anniversary.
Lake Baikal 1 min read
32 platforms and monument locomotives to be repaired on the Circum-Baikal Railway
The East Siberian Railway will renew decking, signs and photo spots, repair the stele in Kultuk and restore the locomotives at Polovinnaya and Port Baikal.
Long Reads 1 min read
The icebreaker Angara: a new navigation for an old ship
How the floating museum went from a half-sunken vessel to an interactive engine room — and what lies ahead.
Lake Baikal 1 min read
Icebreaker Angara: the stern rooms will be restored in 2026–2027
The new stage of restoration of the museum icebreaker will be paid for with grant money and agreed with the Russian Maritime Register.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
Results of 2025: a restored building on Kalandarishvili Street and lighting for 25 historic façades
In 2025 work was carried out on 37 sites; the region spent 248.4 million roubles on preserving its heritage.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
33 monuments in the Irkutsk Region to be restored with preferential loans
They include the Governor’s House and wooden houses in Irkutsk; investors have already been found for 11 buildings.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
1,966 cultural heritage sites inventoried in the Irkutsk Region
In 2025 alone specialists surveyed more than 400 monuments; the work began in 2022.