After waking up at 11.00 am we missed breakfast but the hotel put something together for us: Kasha (porridge) and derevenskii zaftrak (village breakfast) consisting of a sausage, tomato and cucumber together with plates of ham and cheese with rye bread rolls. We ten went for a walk in the northerly direction along the Angara embankment to the Bogoyavenskii Cathedral. It was built in 1718 and the interior is covered with wall paintings of Byzantine saints.
War memorial opposite the Bogoyavlenskii Sobor
Graves of Irkutsk soldiers who were killed in different places: Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kiev, Minsk, Austria, China, Poland and Germany
The eternal flame. The inscription under the carnations says “those who gave their lives for the motherland have earned eternal life”.
Spasskaya church, adjacent to Bogoyavenskii cathedral. It is the oldest stone church in Irkutsk, built in 1708
Count Peter and Countess Fevrona Muromskiye, heroes of a 16th century Russian folk story.
Bogoyavlenskii Sobor
Statue to the founders of Irkutsk in 1660
Plaque listing all the times Russia has been invaded from 1242 to 1790. There is another plaque listing the invasions from 1812 to 1941. It won every time but at enormous cost