18TH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC

Ulan-Ude

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The republic’s capital city Ulan-Ude is located in the valley of the Selenga and the Uda rivers, between the mountain ridges of Khamar-Daban and Ulan-Burgasy about 130 km from Lake Baikal.

Today Ulan-Ude is an important commercial and industrial center of Eastern Siberia. Its population today is 400 thousand people. A modern airport and the Trans-Siberian Railway connect Ulan-Ude with the cities of Russia, Ulaan-Baatar in Mongolia, and Manchuria and Beijing in China. The time zone is GMT+8 or Moscow+5. All trains going along the Trans-Siberian stop in Ulan-Ude. It takes 5 hours by plane from Moscow, alternatively, you can take a train and it’ll take about 4 days from Moscow, or 2 days from Beijing. Irkutsk is 7 hours by train from Ulan-Ude.

BANKS, CURRENCY EXCHANGE

  1. Sberbank

    Lenin St., 15, tel. 21-45-89

  2. VTB 24

    Khotsa Namsarayev St., 2a tel. 44-11-94

    Babushkina St., 14a, tel. 55-50-00

  3. Aziatsko-Tikhookeansky (Asia-Pacific) bank

    Lenin St., 27, tel. 55-97-38

  4. Baikal Bank

    Sovetskaya St., 18, tel. 21-31-03

    Kirov St., 28, tel. 21-07-60

  5. BIN-bank

    Kommunisticheskaya St., 20 tel. 21-42-26

  6. Rosbank

    Tereshkova St., 3b, tel. 23-38-03