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SIBERIA - A Land of Dreams
August 2002
Brief information about Baikal
Region
* Lake Baikal is a Sacred
Sea, and home to an incredible rebirth of legend, dreams and magic.
* Lake Baikal is the deepest,
purest, oldest, largest lake on the planet.
* Lake Baikal
holds twenty percent
of the earth's fresh water
* Lake Baikal
has more species of plants and animals than
any
other lake on the planet
* Over fifty
species of fish including bullhead,
sturgeon and omul
* Fed by more than 336
rivers and streams including the Angara, Barguzin,
Selenga, Turka and Snezhnaya
[only one, the Angara, flows out from Lake Baikal]
* A Crossroad of cultures,
where native Sayats
still herd reindeer
* Buryat
people maintain many of their old traditions
* Gateway to Mongolia and
its ancient and amazing culture
* Legend states that Olkhon
Island was the birthplace of Genghis Khan's Mother
The Expedition is over now, extended
the time period through June 3, and returned
to Moscow on that day.
Hank Bernbaum has offered wonderful
information about the area as senior consultant on the project.
A resident of the area, Hank is
extremely well informed about the region.
Jim Berenholtz has also been kind
in providing some additional information.
Evgeniy Jack Sheremtov is
is very knowledgable of the area.
His site is baikaler.com,
and is a great resourse.
The region is huge and there are
a lot of shots on the shot list.
Andrey Sukhnev, has the wonderful
site: 
Will be in Krasnoyarsk, and Abakan until
27-th of May. His good friend Igor is available, and he is involved in
our GBT
project. "Great Baikal Trail"
We lare looking forward to working with Igor,
and meeting Andrey when he returns to Baikal.
Nikita and Natasha Bencharov on
Olkhon Island were wonderful contacts, and we highly recommend
contacting them, and staying in
their B&B if you plan to visit Olkhon.
We will post their contact info
here in the next days.
[PARTIAL SHOT LIST]
please excuse bad spellings - some of this information
is written phoenetically from phone conversations,
others "translated" by Gabreal from Cyrillic
to Latinski.
Moscow SVO arr. 21 May 5:25 PM
SVO/IRK Aeroflot 729 21 May
d. 7:45 PM
arr. Irkutst 22May 6:15 am
IRKUTSK
- Paris of Siberia 22 May Weds.
Production meeting breakfast, Chai.
Shots scheduled:
Along river - New Drama Theater,
old wooden houses, and classical/baroque
architecture.
Znmensky Monastary - (where Shelokov
and Decemberists wives rest)
City Museum
Spassky Catherdral - where the
old fort was.
Shot from Bell tower - Closed for
'lock' repair.
Near there is a roadway to river
- go to shore near Veterans monument.
Fast water shots
Break before Sunset / rest
OLKHON - Island 23
May Thurs ,
IMPORTANT:
FLY to Olkhon and do Aerial Shots
en route, or
If weather problems, get picked
up at Olkhon
Polish Built Mi-2 -
OLKHON - Island 24
May, 25 May
Burkhan / Shamanka Rock - next
to main town Khuzir
Mbic -Far northern end of Island
- Very Sacred Spot.
Staying with Nikita Bencharov and
Natasha Bencharova
Interviews:
Valentine Khagdayev - Dir of Museum
in ELANTSI (nr Olkhon Island) Shaman
Bolshoye Goloustnoye
-
Viktor Vorotintsev and Misha Mangaskin
(from Olkhon)
Buryat Custural Center - Faya.
Faya's mom is Dora - cullturalist.
Gutya - Buyrat Elder.
Interviewed Gutya and 10+ of her
wonderful friends - other
Buryat Elders,
LISTVYANKA 27
May Mon.
Visit Baikal Museum - Nearby TALTSI
on way from Irkursk to Listvyanka
Director Vladimir Fialkov, on TBI
board -
(then land to BG)
Interviews:
Valentine Khagdayev - Dir of Museum
in ELANTSI (nr Olkhon Island) Shaman
Old Believers - Very short - more
'shots of conversations' than interview.
Female Shaman - Next trip -
Pick Ups (as encountered 'in the
course'):
folk songs - Done
Wild Life - Fresh Water Seals,
bear, etc.
Local Fishermen,
Sport Fishing Excursions available
for visitors
Fishing - Commercial and Tourism
- Ust Baruzin and Barguzin on Eastern Shore
IRKUTSK
- 28 May Tues. - Dinner with friends, Spend night, ready for
early departure.
29 May Wed Irkutsk/Moscow
d. Aeroflot 780 8:10 am -
Poss push to May 31 Fri.
ULAN UDE - Poss push to Sept/
Andrey Sukhnev / Igor
Ethnographic Museum,
Buddist Temple -Datsan temple in
Ivolginsk
Village of Old Believers
photo
by Artur Abazyana
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