Awoke to my final day in Russia not feeling too well but was unable to contemplate spending my last day in Russia in bed, plus I had been saving Taltsy as I was so keen to go there. So set off for the marshrutka and was there by mid-afternoon. Taltsy is a small town between Irkutsk and Listvyanka, and the reason for my visit was the wooded village there. The website is entirely in Russian but from what I could gather it was created as a way of preserving traditional architecture for posterity, so many of the structures there actually used to elsewhere and were moved to Taltsy at various points in the past 40 years or so when they fell into disuse. Other buildings there, however, were just built new in the traditional style for
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