  According to the large $N_C$ limit of QCD baryons are considered as soliton
solutions in effective mesons theories. While the classical solitons dwell in
the isospin subgroup of flavor SU(3) hyperon states are generated by canonical
quantization of the collective coordinates which describe the flavor
orientation of the soliton. The resulting Hamiltonian is diagonalized exactly
allowing one to discuss the dependence of various baryon properties on flavor
symmetry breaking. In particular axial charges, baryon magnetic moments and
radiative decay widths are considered.
