Tashelan

It is located mainly on the right bank of the Ilki River, one kilometer above the confluence of the Tashelanki River, on the Kizhinginsky tract (part of the regional highway Ulan-Ude – Zaigraevo – Kizhinga – Khorinsk ) 15 km east of the village of Novoilinsk , with a railway station located there Trans-Siberian Railway , and 51 km southeast of the regional center - urban settlement Zaigraevo .

It was founded according to legend at the end of the 18th century by the Semey - Old Believers of the Bespopov style from Tarbagatai volost . At the beginning of the 19th century, a chapel was built that lasted until the 1920s. In the 1820s, the Old Believers Zubakina from Khasurta of the Khorinsky Steppe Duma moved here. The village was also inhabited by baptized Buryats , some of which passed into the Old Believers .

Later, a missionary camp of the Trans-Baikal spiritual mission of the Russian Orthodox Church was founded in Tashelan, which facilitated the transition of residents to Orthodoxy.

In 1866, construction began on the Church of St. John the Baptist ^[2] , and a parish school was opened. On May 23, 1871, the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Great Prophet the Forerunner and John the Baptist was consecrated. The church building is wooden, on a stone foundation. The church was built at the expense of the Selenginsky merchant of the first guild Alexander Petrovich Katyshevtsev. The village had 16 courtyards and about 90 inhabitants ^[3] .

During the civil war in Tashelan and its environs, a partisan detachment operated under the command of K. G. Zubakin and T.I.

In 1929, a labor commune was organized in the village.

Secondary boarding school, cultural center, library, kindergarten, feldsher-midwife station, post office.

Workshop for milk processing of the trading base of the Burcoopsoyuz, agricultural cooperatives, personal subsidiary plots.

• Shirabon, Sanzhizhab Shirapovich (1906-1938) - secretary of the Buryat-Mongolian regional committee of the Komsomol, editor of the newspapers "Buryaad-Mongoloy γenen" and "East Siberian Komsomolets", literary critic. He studied in the years 1914-1917 at the Tashelan missionary school.
• Ivakin, Georgy Gavrilovich (born in the village in 1928) - Soviet athlete-runner, repeated champion and champion of the USSR, participant in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.