Taste of Zabaikalye 2018 Tour, No. 1
CHUCK RITCHIE WRITES: August 20, 2018. We are in to our second day in Irkutsk with our wonderful tour organizer Olga Kostina and our interpreter Irina Shipley and her protege Lyosha. Yesterday we toured...
Category: The Shipleys for Chernovsky
Visit to Chita Summer 2018, No. 2 A beautiful day and a surprising visit
A quick note about yesterday and today. Yesterday I was invited to Ksenia Shuvalova”s (“Ksyusha”) and her husband Dima’s dacha outside the village of Karpovka, 45 minutes from Chita, for a swim in the...
News about the boys from Chernovsky
This note was received June 6th from Irina Shipley. For many years now, Irina and Michael having been assisting older [mostly] boys at the Children’s Center in Chernovsky, a town 30 minutes from Chita....