Lenin Street Pedestrian Zone & Triumphal Arch
Улица Ленина / Триумфальная арка
The old main street of Ulan-Ude, nicknamed the “Arbat.” Merchant mansions, a fountain, and a tsarist triumphal arch line a pleasant pedestrian route.
Lenin Street connects Sovetskaya Square with the Odigitrievsky Cathedral. Its southern section is pedestrianized, and both sides retain 19th-century merchant houses with carved wooden window frames. There are cafés, shops selling buuzy (Buryat steamed dumplings), and souvenir stores. The triumphal arch on the street was originally built in 1891 to welcome the heir apparent, Nicholas, and was rebuilt in 2006. The full walk is about 1.5 km, and you can stroll from the Lenin head statue all the way to the cathedral.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Museum of Nature of Buryatia
- Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre
- National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia
- Odigitrievsky Cathedral
- Lenin Head Monument (Soviets Square)
- Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan
- Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples
- Ivolginsky Datsan