Seen at a distance, from the top of the mountain which rises at about twenty versts off along the Siberian highroad, this town, with its cupolas, its bell-towers, its steeples slender as minarets, its domes like pot-bellied Chinese jars, presents something of an oriental aspect.
Urruntxotik ikusita, Siberiako bide nagusian hogei versta harago dagoen menditik, esaterako, ekialdeko hirien tankera hartzen du nolabait; kupulak eta kanpandorre txikiak ageri dira, puntetan orratz segailak zerura, minareteen antzekoak, eta domo sabel-handiak apaingarri, potiz japoniarrak irudi dutenak.