Near noon, our car came to a beautiful place, the city of Ulan-Ude. It is the capital of the Republic of Buryatia of the Russian Federation and the administrative, political, economic and cultural centre of the Republic of Buryatia.

The Republic of Buryatia is a republic with a high level of administrative autonomy in Russia, with its own elected president.

The city has a population of about 400,000, and the main ethnic groups are Buryats, Russians, and Mongols.

Ulan-Ude is located in the valley of the Selenga River in Trans-Baikal, on the right bank of the river, at the junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Russian-Mongolian Railway. It is located in the southeast of Lake Baikal, 75 kilometers from Lake Baikal and 5,532 kilometers from Moscow, with an area of 35.13 million square kilometers, and there are 3 districts, namely the railway district, the October district, and the Soviet district.

The main industrial enterprises of Ulan-Ude include large locomotives, vehicle repair, large glass factories, and aircraft factories.

The main industries in the city are agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and tourism. In addition, machine manufacturing, metal processing, light industry, food processing, fur, building materials, electronic equipment, etc. are also relatively developed, and forest resources and mineral resources are abundant.

The history of Ulan-Ude, almost like the history of other ancient Siberian cities, originally originated in the steppe.

Founded in 1666 by the Cossacks. In 1690 it was renamed Verkhniy Udinsk Castle.

In the 80s of the 17th century, the city of Verkhniy Udinsk was administratively divided into the Irkutsk province.

Verkhniy Udinsk is located on the "trade route" from Russia to China and Mongolia, and as a result, it has rapidly developed into one of the main commercial centers in eastern Russia.

The industrial development of the city of Ulan-Ude is closely related to the laying of the Siberian transport artery, which connects the two countries in 13 years.

On August 15, 1899, the first train was opened in Verkhniy Udinsk, the Trans-Siberian Trunk Line, which connected Verkhniy Udinsk with the countries of the world.

It is the junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the 34 trains of the Railway to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Beijing, China, with direct flights to Beijing in 2013.

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Our car stopped in front of a restaurant with a giant statue of Genghis Khan.

The hall was decorated in a very Buryat national style, which was particularly novel and pleasing to both Sergey and me.

Yuri looked at the recipe and asked with a smile:

"Linna, do you have any taboos about Buryat cuisine?"

"Nope! I like to eat anything that tastes good," I said with a laugh.

The food of the nomads is naturally based on meat. Special mention should be made here of the Buryat buns, which are the most revered national gastronomic traditions of the Buryats: the "Buryat buns", stuffed with lamb, sheep water and wild leeks from the steppe, are fragrant and delicious.

Seeing Sergey eating buns one by one, Yuri and I both laughed tacitly.

The young man who accompanied Yuri in the car began to tell us about the places to visit here: Buryatia is not only beautiful with the beautiful scenery of Lake Baikal, but also countless historical and cultural landscapes, and Ulan-Ude has a reputation as a famous cultural and tourist city.

First of all, the cityscape of Ulan-Ude is very national, expressing a culture that is different from that of other Russian cities. Cabaret theaters, drama theaters, museums and other buildings, culture and art are a combination of Buryat style and Russian style.

The Folklore Museum is located on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, 60 km away by car. The Folklore Museum is located in an open-air forest clearing. There are many living facilities of the Oriental nomads, such as the hides of the Evenki, birch bark tents, yurts of the Buryat people, wooden huts of the ancient Buryat people of Russia, as well as grass huts, granaries, bathhouses, chicken coops, etc.

They have been preserved here for a century, whether it is the painted or wood carvings on the window lattice, the door, the window guards, or the various utensils in front of the house, all of which show a strong national style, plus the unique national costumes of the residents, costumes, and horses wearing exquisite saddles, all of which are set against the backdrop of the large forest, like a beautiful natural landscape painting.

Other tourist attractions in Ulan-Ude include the Lama's Church, the Museum of Natural History, etc.

Heading south out of Ulan-Ude, between the villages of Anagustai and Altai, there is a cave on the right bank of the Zigoye River in which there are two caves, one large and one small, with many Neolithic or Bronze Age petroglyphs painted in red ochre on the walls and ceilings of the caves. The picture is relatively well preserved, and in the early years when the Cossacks borrowed this cave, some of the petroglyphs were destroyed by the bonfires they lit.

In addition, there are petroglyphs such as the Sarbatui cave at the mouth of the Ichitui River, the Ust-Kyakhtu cave in the south of Buryatia, etc. The convergence of multiple religions and cultures has made Ulan-Ude a well-known cultural tourism city. In some areas of Buryatia, village tribes that have preserved a completely Mongolian way of life have now been turned into "folk culture villages" for people to visit.

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