The Heart of Russia car rally arrived in Irkutsk. It started in Ulan Ude and plans to visit 22 cities in a month, from Siberia to Crimea and Moscow. Participants from Buryatia present a tourist map with healing and resort areas, routes, springs and holy sites.
On June 2, participants in the “Heart of Russia” road rally arrived in Irkutsk, organized by representatives of the creative youth association “Reviving the Origins of Russia” from the Republic of Buryatia. Over the course of a month, the participants plan to visit 22 cities in Russia; the route runs from Ulan-Ude to Crimea, after which the participants will travel to Moscow.As part of the project, the road rally participants plan to present Russians with a tourist map that shows in detail the healing and resort areas, tourist routes, healing springs, and sacred places of Buryatia.
The “Heart of Russia” road rally, with 13 participants, started on June 1, 2014, in Ulan-Ude. The route of the road rally includes such cities as Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Volgograd, Elista, Nalchik, Grozny, Krasnodar, Sochi, and others. At the end of June – beginning of July, the participants are expected to arrive in Crimea, from where they will then head to Moscow. The project organizers hope that other residents of Russia will join their car-based campaign.
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region