I recently attended a seminar for radio journalists in Irkutsk, which had an interesting article published in the official programme about the implementation of “energy conservation projects in the Shelekhov municipal district.”

Will you look at that, I thought to myself, there are actually ahead-of-the-curve people in off-the-beaten-track Shelekhov district, thinking progressively and implementing energy-conservation technologies! The only thing that perplexed me was why there weren’t any such examples of energy conservation in the oblast center itself – in Irkutsk. Well, be that as it may, I together with a group of radio journalists set off for Shelekhov to check it out.