Irkutsk is an ancient Siberian city, the oldest buildings of which date back to the 18th century and were built in a unique style - Siberian or Irkutsk Baroque. The city has preserved the city's stone buildings and monuments of wooden architecture. Nearby - Lake Baikal.
On the map of Siberia, Irkutsk, like most Siberian cities, appeared in the middle of the 17th century and was founded as a winter residence at the mouth of the Irkut River. Being located on important colonization and trade and trade routes linking the European part of Russia with China, Mongolia and the Russian Far East, Irkutsk developed rapidly and grew
Today Irkutsk is among the largest regions of the Russian Federation and has the status of one of seven cities with a unique historical and cultural heritage.
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How to get to Irkutsk?
You can get to Irkutsk by plane, train or car .The road by air, if departed from the capital's Domodedovo, will take five and a half hours .Air ticket to Irkutsk in one direction without transfers will cost an average of 12 thousand..rub .per person .By the way, unlike other Russian megacities, the Irkutsk airport is within the city limits .So from here you can easily and quickly leave in any direction .Flights are made to all major airports of the country and all regional centers of Siberia, as well as to Baku, Yerevan, Simferopol, Tashkent, Dushanbe, Seoul, Niigata, Dalian, Shenyang and Tianjin..
If you get on a train from Moscow, then on the road will have to spend three and a half days. A railway ticket will cost somewhere around 6,300 rubles. for a place in a reserved seat. By car the route "Moscow - Irkutsk" will take two and a half days, but the cost of gasoline will be comparable to the prices for air tickets.
The train can also be reached: from Krasnoyarsk (18-20 hours), Vladivostok (three days), Ulan Bator (day) and Ulan-Ude (en route about 7 hours). The station is on the left bank of the Angara, 2, 5 km from the center, you need to go to the center by bus or tram.
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The climate of Irkutsk is
Cloudy, snow -2 ° С in the day -8 ° С at night ° С water |
Partly cloudy, light snow -8 ° С in the day -15 ° С at night ° С water |
Overcast -3 ° С in the day -13 ° С at night ° С water |
| Irkutsk weather forecast for 10 days | ||
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | -15 | -11 | -2 | + 8 | + 16 | + 23 | + 25 | + 22 | + 15 | + 7 | -4 | -13 |
| night | -25 | -23 | -16 | -5 | + 2 | + 8 | + 11 | + 9 | + 3 | -4 | -15 | -23 |
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Irkutsk
Irkutsk is a Siberian city, in which old lacy wooden houses coexist with modern high-rise buildings. There are dramatic and musical theaters, a young spectator's theater, a philharmonic with a symphony orchestra, an organ music hall. In one of the oldest in Russia Irkutsk local history museum there are rich archaeological and ethnographic collections. For about 120 years, there is an art museum in Irkutsk, created on the basis of a private collection.
Irkutsk is included in the number of historical settlements with the preservation of the old planning and development, there are over 680 historical and cultural monuments. The most interesting are the historically formed ensembles of the most ancient part of the city - the Spassky Church (1706-1710) and the Cathedral of the Epiphany (1718-1746), the monument to Emperor Alexander III (now called "Pioneers of Siberia") and the building of the East Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society. In addition, Irkutsk has the largest number of Baroque churches in Siberia.
Irkutsk was one of the few cities in Russia where the non-Orthodox population before the revolution was so significant that it built its own cult buildings. Three of them - the Polish church (1881-1885), transformed after the revolution into the organ hall, the Tatar mosque (1902) and the synagogue (1879) - have survived to this day.
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Museums of Irkutsk
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. VP Sukacheva
Address: st. Lenina, 5
The oldest and richest art museum in Siberia. The museum was based on a collection of works of art of the prominent Irkutsk public figure Vladimir Sukachev. Now the museum's collection contains more than 14 thousand works of art. The museum collection presents a rich collection of ancient Russian and Siberian icons, a cult wooden sculpture of the 18th century, a portrait gallery.
In the collection of Western European painting there are paintings by masters of Holland, Flanders, France, Italy, Germany and England from the 17th to 19th centuries. The collection of works of Japan and China includes: painting, porcelain, wooden, metal, stone products from 3 to 20 centuries.
Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local History
Address: st. Karl Marx, 2
The exposition "The History of the Irkutsk Region from the Paleolith to Our Days" introduces a collection of ethnographic items made of bone, wood, metal, clothing of virtually all Siberian peoples. The museum has the largest collection of items of the Orthodox cult, shamanism, Lamaism, a collection of jewelry, weapons. Among the unique monuments of material culture is the collection of nephrite articles from the new-century age. The collection of coins is the largest in Siberia.
The manor of the Decembrist S. P. Trubetskoi
Address: st. Dzerzhinsky, 64
The museum was opened in 1970 in a house whose history is connected with the Trubetskoy family. The permanent exposition of the museum tells about the life of the Decembrists in penal servitude in Eastern Siberia: authentic Trubetskoy family things, furniture, embroidery of Princess EI Trubetskoi, picturesque works of her daughter.
The estate of the Decembrist S. G. Volkonsky
Address: пер. Volkonsky, 10
The Volkonsky House was originally built in 1838 in the village of Urik of Irkutsk province. In 1846, the Volkonskie acquired a plot of land in Irkutsk against the Church of the Transfiguration and transferred their home from. Urik to Irkutsk. The exposition of the museum tells about the history of the Decembrists in Russia, musical and literary evenings, salons are held here, December - Decembrist evenings every year.
Museum of Irkutsk City History
Address: st. Tchaikovsky, 5
The museum presents dioramas of the development of the city of Irkutsk in the 17th and 19th centuries, models of the Irkutsk prison and the Ascension monastery.
Icebreaker "Angara"
Address: Solnechniy Microdistrict
The only vessel from the first ice-breaking vessels, preserved in Russia to the present day. In 1991, on the icebreaker was opened an exposition of the Irkutsk regional museum of local lore "History of navigation on Lake Baikal". The exposition presents mock-ups of Baikal ships, historical photographs and documents about the history of the icebreaker "Angara" and about navigation in the Angara region.
Aquarium of the Baikal Seal
Address: 2 ya Zheleznodorozhnaya, 66
Nerpinary is similar to the world-wide dolphinariums, but with one difference: one of the endemics of Baikal lives in the basin. The Baikal seal is the only animal of the family of seal, living in fresh water and found only in the Baikal. Nerpa live in a small basin in which water is constantly filtered and cooled. They can perform all the tricks that dolphins do.
The Church of the Savior (18th cent.)
In the museum there are exhibits: "Animal World of Siberia", "Crafts and Crafts of the Peoples of Siberia", which introduce the life and life of taiga hunters and fishermen and the exhibition "The Bells of Russia."
Irkutsk State Mineralogical Museum. AV Sidorov
Address: st. Lermontova, 83, building. E
The museum is one of the five best mineralogical museums in Russia..The collection contains minerals from the Irkutsk region and minerals from around the world (1500 species) .Among the rare exhibits is the jade boulder, called the "Genghis Khan's Saddle" (its weight is about two tons) .Rare are single crystals of apatite (65 kg), phlogopite (74 kg), a single crystal of muscovite mica in diameter up to 2 m .Also in the museum there is a rich exposition "Samotsvety Sibiri" .The central place in it is occupied by exhibits from charoite - a mineral not found anywhere else in the world . Photo of Irkutsk (35)