I tried to get a sense of the wonder of Baikal,
but its majesty was just too great for words to fit it all

Kenton M. Stewart

Znamensky Convent is the orthodox convent located in Pravoberezhny district of Irkutsk at confluence of Angara and Ushakovki rivers. One of the oldest monasteries of Siberia.

Since 1991 relics of the prelate Innokenti Kulchitsky are buried again in Znamensky monastery, and on August 27 in 1994 in the monastery the rank monastic a post-threshing barn has been revived. Now in the territory of the monastery there is a diocesan management of the Irkutsk metropolitanate. On November 2 in 2004 on the place of execution of Alexander Kolchak near Znamensky Monastery the country's first monument to the admiral and Supreme governor of Russia has been established. The author of a monument was sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. The event has been dated for the 130 anniversary since the birth of Alexander Vasilyevich.