Irkutsk

Irkutsk (????????), the chief town of the Irkutsk Oblast, is one of the most important places in Siberia, being not only the principal commercial depot north of Tashkent, but also a fortified military post, an archbishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church and the seat of several learned societies. It is situated in , 5185 km by rail from Moscow. Pop. (1875) 32,512, (1900) 49,106, (1975) 500,000, (2002) 593,400.

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The town proper lies on the right bank of the Angara, a tributary of the Yenisei, 45 m below its outflow from Lake Baikal, and on the opposite bank is the Glaskovsk suburb. The river, which has a breadth of 1900 ft. (579 m), is crossed by a flying bridge. The Irkut, from which the town takes its name, is a small river which joins the Angara directly opposite the town, the main portion of which is separated from the monastery, the fort, the port and the suburbs by another confluent, the Ida or Ushakovka.

Irkutsk Oblast: The Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is located in south-eastern Siberia in the basins of Angara, Lena and Nizhnyaya Tunguska rivers, and occupies an area of 767,900 km? (4.6% of Russia's territory)....

Siberia: Siberia (, common English transliterations: Sibir?, Sibir; from the Tatar for ?sleeping land?) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. It extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hill...

Tashkent: Tashkent (Toshkent or ??????? in Uzbek, ???????? in Russian; its name is Turkoman language for "Stone City" It is the current capital of Uzbekistan. Population (1999): 2,142,700....

Irkutsk related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Angara Embankment in Irkutsk 1886