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Chita-Transbaikal (03.2011)

Six thousand kilometers from Moscow, the Transbaikal Region (Zabaikalsky Krai) of Russia is in far eastern Siberia & shares borders with both China & Mongolia. The capital city, Chita, is the headquarters of the Siberian Military District and until 1991, was a closed city famous for its exiles. Decembrists first sentenced to hard labor were exiled here in 1827, the last Emperor of China was imprisoned here, & more recently, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was held in detention.

An ethnically & culturally diverse region long inhabited by Buryats, Evenks and Russian Cossacks, this vast area is one of extraordinary beauty from the Kodar Mountain Range to the little-known Siberian desert, the sands of Chara.
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  • The Tsugol Datsan & its surroundings.
  • The village outside the Tsugol Datsan.
  • Монахи Цугольского дацана.
  • Safronushka with monks at the Tsugol Datsan.
  • Village life around the Datsan.
  • Jargalma outside the grounds of the Tsugol Datsan.
  • Kids fashion show at the Fashion Theater in Mogoytuy.
  • Buryat girl dressed in the latest fashion during a show at the Fashion Theater in Mogoytuy.
  • A living doll in pink.
  • The Fashion Theater was established to help preserve Buryat culture & traditions.
  • Buryat fashion - beads are in.
  • Justifiably proud of themselves.
  • Time for the older kids.
  • A manly man.
  • Two princess in white for the finale.
  • In the audience....
  • Kewpie lips.
  • Buryat girl with "uncle" Rustem.
  • Rusiya Al-Yaum correspondent, Wafaa Daoui, & RT correspondent, Staci Bivens, with kids after the show.
  • Rustem & Wafaa with the kids after the fashion show.
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