Travel Guide Chikoy ())

Also called Tchikoï red, this is the centre of Krasnotchikoïski district, 561 km from Chita, 148 km from Pétrovski Zavod, the nearest station. The village was founded in 1670 by the cossacks attracted by the abundance of zibeline. During the second half of the th century, old believers settled there. Cedar forests spread over hundreds of kilometres give tens of tons of cedar nuts a year. Cedar nuts are used to make oil.In the taiga of Tchikoï we hunt the bear, fox, ermine, zibeline, deer, wild boar; and also grouse, partridge, gelinotte.On the banks of the river Yamarovka is the same name as the healing resort with a particularly sunny climate.Here is what we say about Yamarovka: a hunter ran after a reindeer injured. While exhausted, the hunter was about to catch it when he saw a source. The reindeer, who saw him also, threw himself into the water and disappeared into the taiga. " Yamar jikhte imable? " (What is this miracle?), then shouted the stunned hunter. But having himself drank water from the source, he regained his strength. Since then, Yamarovka's mineral water has been known to make its forces to both people and animals.The source began to operate in 1854, but only in 1896 it was officially recognized. The depth of wells reached 500 m.