A group of 30 people from the Irkutsk, Zabaikalsk, Black Sea Cossack troops, as well as volunteers from Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, crossed Lake Baikal on the ice on March 6 in memory of the Siberian ice campaign of 1920, the BaikalPost news agency reported in the press center of the Oblastnaya newspaper. “The ice trip will go from Listvyanka to the Tankhoi railway station, the distance is about 40 kilometers. The patriotic community has been carrying out such transitions since 2004. ”
The Cossacks passed from Listvyanka to Tankhoy, taking into account the bypassing hummocks and cracks, the length of the route was about 45 kilometers, the travel time was 15 hours. The participants started after the prayer service in the Church of St. Nicholas in Listvyanka, which began at 6.30.
“The transition turned out to be not easy - the last 10 kilometers the path ran through deep snow and hummocks, but, despite all the difficulties, by 9 o'clock in the evening the trailing part of the group entered Tankhoy,” the commander of the detachment, chief of staff of the Irkutsk Cossack army esaul Valery Bobrov is quoted in the message ...
The rally is dedicated to the final stage of the Civil War in Eastern Siberia, when in mid-February 1920 the remnants of the retreating Russian army of General Kappel crossed Lake Baikal and went to Chita. Historically, the route of the Siberian ice campaign in 1920 ran from the village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye to the town of Babushkin in Buryatia. At that time, about 35 thousand people, including women and children, overcame Baikal on the ice. Similar transitions have been carried out since 2004.
