Regions and centres of tourism

Ulan-Ude. Modern Ulan-Ude is a large administrative, industrial, trading, cultural and scientific centre of Eastern Siberia.

Last years the city has developed also as the main centre of tourism of Buryatia. Museums attractive for visitors, theatres, cinemas work here, hotels receive visitors, shops and shopping centers, cafe and restaurants, banks and points of currency exchange, insurance companies, objects of leisure and entertainments work, modern means of communication are developing. The visitors can use a help of room bureaus, accommodate in guesthouses and apartments. In the city objects of architecture and monuments of the past have been kept, some of them are sights and curiosities.

Kabansky region is rather independent tourist area of Buryatia. It is located along the southeast coast of Baikal from the Oblom cape in the north up to the Snezhnaya River in the south and also borders on Irkutsk oblast. From the west it is washed by waters of Baikal Lake, from the east it is limited with mountain ranges of Ulan-Burgasy and Khamar-Daban. The Selenga River divides the region almost into two equal parts. The basic territory represents a wide valley in the mouth of the Selenga with the area of 13, 5 thousand sq. km, 462 m above the sea level. The territory of the region is cut up by numerous channels of rivers flowing into Baikal: the Abramikha, the Kultushnaya, the Manturikha, the Mysovka, the Bolshaya, the Pereemnaya, the Tankhoi, the Snezhnaya, the Vydrinaya and other rivers. The region got its name from the name of the river Kaban'ya in the valley of which wild boars had been found before.

Pribaikalye. Pribaikalye is the name of the territory near Baikal Lake, stretched along its eastern coast, crossed by valleys of the river Selenga, Turka, Itanets, Kika, Khaim, Kotochik, and also a number of small rivers. Along the coast of Baikal mountain spurs of the ranges Ulan-Burgasy, Golondinsky and Morskoi are located. Between spurs of the range Ulan-Burgasy there are steppe valleys. In the mouths of flowing rivers low-marshy sites with the system of lakes among which the largest is the lake Kotokel are distributed.

Barguzinsky valley is unique, beautiful, picturesque, rich in landscapes and natural complexes, history, cultures, and the most perspective tourist directions of Baikal region. Across the valley there is a way running from the lake Baikal to the Barguzinsky range, sources and resorts of Kurumkansky region. Experts of the World Bank mentioned it among optimum eco tourist territories, and authors of the International Russian-American project "the Complex program of the policy of land tenure for the Russian territory of Baikal lake pool " ("The Devis Project ", 1993.) offered to turn valley into the national park.

Podlemorie. This poetic name is a name of a part of the northeast coast of Baikal Lake from the Dagarskaya guba in the north and up to the valley of the river Bolshoi Chivyrkuy in the south. Podlemorie is a wide coastal plain near the lake, which is gradually passing in slopes of the Barguzinsky range. Along Podlemorie as well as in many other places on the coast of Baikal, there are traces of the glacial period in the Barguzin range.