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Having passed the turnoff to the camp site «Bely Ruchey» and the Shcheglovaya River (52 km), we find ourselves on the territory of the largest settlement between Irkutsk and Baikal today – Bolshaya Rechka. Today, 2,781 people live here, many of whom are extremely talented. For example, wood carving master A.N. Shutko in 2009 built a 30-ton wooden frigate in the village on his site. His neighbor is the artist and writer Y.A. Panov, created in his house on Angarskaya Street a real museum of wooden sculpture dedicated to the Stalinist repressions, of which he himself became a victim in 1941 for a friendly caricature, which inadvertently fell into the hands of the military commissar. And although he died in 2008, his work is still alive in the films of K. Bednarets «The Ballad of Lake Baikal» and T.G. Korzhanovsky «Yuri Panov and his Nadezhda». In addition, a poem by E.A. Yevtushenko «Larch twin». The third one, who must be mentioned, is the writer and artist V.E. Nefediev, who found five sites of an ancient man of the Neolithic era in the vicinity of the village.