Cape Bogatyr

Bogatyr is the cape of the largest Baikal island Olkhon. The old name of the cape - Ognenny - is due to the fact that the first Russian travelers who sailed to the island at the end of the XVI century, suddenly saw a huge column of fire that shot up in front of them from the Baikal waters to the sky. The fiery wall seemed to keep foreigners away from the sacred land of the island. A similar phenomenon on the cape was noted from time to time later.