Baikal. r. Selenga Lighthouse

Also known as: Байкал. р. Селенга

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Russia

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active Legacy archive claim · Байкал. р. Селенга

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Now the fourth generation of the family lives here: Vitaly Vasilyevich, the lighthouse keeper and the main person on the island, and his son Alexander

The lighthouse itself, which will now be half a century old, is located on a rather large artificial island in the Kabansky district of Buryatia. There is water all around, small islands and a kingdom of reeds. The lighthouse shows the way and does not allow ships that come from Baikal to Selenga to go astray. This is a ten-meter tower, on the top of which, at night, in the fog, after a certain time, the light of a lantern flashes and goes out.

You can get to the island only by water from the hunting base, which is not far from the village of Shigaevo. It's not easy living here. The most important thing is that there is no good source of energy. The lighthouse runs on batteries, which are far from new. Food is prepared using gas - cylinders are brought from the shore. There is no refrigerator, the TV is rarely turned on - they save electricity. It's not too bad with diesel fuel either. The city authorities allocate thirty liters for a month, but to sail a motorboat back and forth to the shore, you need forty liters. And the beacon keeper's salary is small. And, of course, there is no school.

In addition to monitoring the operation of the lighthouse, the responsibilities of the keepers include maintaining the “navigable environment.” This is the name of the pillars-passes and landmarks, which are the caretakers

placed on the river, making a kind of corridor for boats and boats. All this equipment also needs to be looked after, updated, and repaired.

In 1937, after the death of the first keeper, the Dmitrievs began working at the lighthouse. Vitaly Vasilyevich came for us in a light motor boat. The island met us with a strong, piercing wind.

“You really didn’t guess with the weather,” Alexandra Vasilievna, also the keeper and owner of the lighthouse and Vitaly Vasilyevich’s sister, met us. - What a risk - in this weather on a motorboat!

But the next day the lighthouse appeared in all its glory. On a small boat, Vitaly Vasilyevich shows the river and the place where Baikal begins. The Dmitrievs report every month to the Federal Water Transport Service in Ulan-Ude about all the changes taking place on it. It washes up new islands, the channels of channels change, new ones appear - then all this is plotted on the Selenga navigation map.

Ships sail here from May 10 to October 10. After that, the Dmitrievs work on a rotational basis—they act as guards.

“It’s hard in winter, if there’s frost and wind,” says Vitaly Vasilyevich. “I’ve been celebrating New Year’s here for many years. In winter it’s sometimes dreary, to be honest. And you will come to her

Mieux to Kabansk —pulls him back. Homeland, habit. Our whole family is like this. One sister has been living in Sochi for many years, but she misses the lighthouse. Both children and grandchildren are drawn here.

Vitaly Vasilyevich dreams that someday they will build a wind station at the lighthouse:

  • How strong is the wind here! You could get enough energy. But I poked around and looked - there are no such things anywhere in the republic. A friend of mine traveled around Holland on a bicycle, so the whole country is covered in these windmills.

From non-traditional energy sources, there are small solar panels at the lighthouse. They work well, but their area is small. Dmitriev contacted an enterprise that produces batteries in Ulan-Ude. They didn't refuse:

— We’ll be happy to install whichever one you want. Three hundred thousand rubles - and use it.

But where can the Dmitrievs get that kind of money? But how many people the lighthouse has saved the lives of, how many people the keepers have warmed after accidents when cars fell through the ice, how much work was put into building the island, and now we have to literally fight to prevent it from being destroyed by water and wind.

Foreign ornithologists have visited the lighthouse more than once. The Germans spent two weeks trying to find some rare bird. Found.

Indeed, in the Selenga delta, many rivers and rivulets create a natural water biofilter. Birds understand this especially well. In April you can see a real bird market here. The Dmitrievs cannot leave this special place. Vitaly Vasilyevich called his sister from the north:

— Come, you can’t manage it alone. The dynasty will end. How do we leave the lighthouse?

So they continue the work of their grandfather and parents Vasily Mikhailovich and Alexandra Stepanovna and serve at the lighthouse.

Source: http://www.infpol.ru/

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Identity

LUX ID
LUX-LH-000189
Type
Lighthouse
Object kind
Lighthouse
Current status
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  • active selected why: Current evidence is active; Source: Legacy archive field; Inherited from the archive · Байкал. р. Селенга Current · archive · Legacy archive field
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LUX Light Archive, Lighthouse record: "Baikal. r. Selenga Lighthouse", LUX-LH-000189, https://light.lux143.org/lighthouses/LUX-LH-000189/, accessed 2026-07-03, archive v0.24.42.

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LUX-LH-000189
Legacy node
node:702
Legacy URL
/node/702/
Drupal source type
lighthouse
Source system
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/node/702

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Node
702
Source type
lighthouse
Review class
Lighthouse
Wikidata class
Q39715
Created
07/09/2011 13:14:24 UTC
Changed
30/09/2011 13:54:07 UTC
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active Legacy archive claim · Байкал. р. Селенга
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