Travel Guide Chilkinski Zavod - Kamenogorsk-Kara (ШИлкИнскИй Завод И Усть-Кара)

The villages of Chilkinsky Zavod and Kamenogorsk-Kara are sadly famous by their prison. Political prisoners, including women, worked in mines, glass, skin factories and river yards. In 1889, some political detainees committed suicide (the «Kara tragedy»). The following year, Kara prison was closed. On the edge of the Chilka, near the village of Chilkinski Zavod, lies a cave where, in 1951, the remnants of the skeleton of a man and stone objects were discovered. Okladnikov proved that the cave was inhabited in Neolithic times and later in the iron age. On-site arrows show that the inhabitants of this cave knew how to shoot the bow. The Chita region borders on Mongolia and China. That is why many locations are located in border areas, including Zabaïkalsk (459 km from Chita) bordering China. Zabaïkalsk station is a beautiful building, with hotel, restaurant, department of Intourist, bank, post.