Ulan Ude Main Street

Ulan Ude

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September 19th 2006
After a short (in the grand scheme of things) and uneventful train journey from Irkutsk to Ulan Ude we arrived at our homestay in the early moning. We were staying with a woman called Lera in another Soviet apartment block. After crashing for a few hours we had breakfast. It turns out that our house mother was a gourmet chef in a previous life and for the first time ever we enjoyed our breakfast i ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more