In the amazing vast wilderness around Lake Baikal reside a nomadic people: the Buryats. They live according to their own fabulous customs, and their everyday life is defined by shamanism and a strong sense of family. The Buryats lead their lives in harmony with powerful forces of nature: wide open steppes, majestic hills, dense forests and a vast body of water they call the “Holy Sea”: Lake Baikal. Shamanic rituals and a cult of ancestor worship are what define the lives of these nomads. The history of Buryat people counts not one millennium. It is complex, and interesting, and ambiguous. Buryat people, which proved to be himself that scattered on the regions, to the countries and to continents, knew how to preserve its originality.