Between the high mountains, in the endless taiga, lies the deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal, also called the Siberian Sea. In ancient times, Siberia was an unknown and mysterious country - wild, cold, deserted. A few tribes of Siberian peoples - Buryats, Yakuts, Evenks and others - roamed the vast Siberian expanses. Over time, Russian pioneers came to these lands. The Russians founded villages and cities. Irkutsk became one of the largest and most prosperous. The storyteller Vasily Stepanovich Starodumov lived in the city of Irkutsk. He loved his region. And he wrote about Baikal, about the beauty and bottomlessness of the “Siberian Sea”. Vasily Stepanovich knew many Buryat legends and knew how to tell them. Listen to them too. “By the sea of our Baikal, where the cedars cling to the rocks, there is a hut, but not on chicken legs, but a little similar to it. Let’s sit in it, drink some tea and start telling a fairy tale...” The book will introduce young readers to fairy tales Siberian peoples who lived on the shores of the lake...