Taltsy Museum.Irkutsk.Russia

			Introduction The Taltsy Museum (Тальцы), an open-air museum of traditional architecture of Ilimsk and Irkutsk.Ilimsk (Илимск) was a small town in Siberia, within today's Irkutsk Oblast of Russia.Ilimsk was founded in 1630 on the Ilim River, a tributary of the Angara River, as Ilimsky Ostrog (i.e., "Fort Ilim"). The town was the administrative center of a district (okrug) from 1764 to 1775.After the October Revolution of 1917, Ilimsk became a village (selo), and after the construction of the Ust-Ilimsk Dam (Усть-Илимская ГЭС) on the Angara at Ust-Ilimsk (below the fall of the Ilim into the Angara), the site of the village was flooded by the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir in the mid-1970s. Comments Photo