Lake Baikal 1 min read
Icebreaker Angara: the stern rooms will be restored in 2026–2027
The new stage of restoration of the museum icebreaker will be paid for with grant money and agreed with the Russian Maritime Register.
The city and the lake in writing
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History, architecture, Baikal, food and the seasons — writing that helps you see more than meets the eye.
Travel Tips 1 min read
“Peshekhodka-38”: ten city walking tours in one day
Irkutsk guides held a festival of tours: wooden architecture, merchant Irkutsk, a maritime route with the icebreaker Angara.
History of Irkutsk 1 min read
“Big History”: an exhibition about Irkutsk’s main street
The regional museum tells the story of Bolshaya Street, from the palisade of 1726 to its renaming as Karl Marx Street in 1920.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
“365 on Irkutsk Time”: an artistic chronicle of the city
More than 200 works in three halls of the art museum, from the 19th-century “View of Irkutsk from Across the Angara” to contemporary artists.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
Results of 2025: a restored building on Kalandarishvili Street and lighting for 25 historic façades
In 2025 work was carried out on 37 sites; the region spent 248.4 million roubles on preserving its heritage.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
33 monuments in the Irkutsk Region to be restored with preferential loans
They include the Governor’s House and wooden houses in Irkutsk; investors have already been found for 11 buildings.
Nature & Wildlife 1 min read
More than 20,000 people took the Baikal Ecological Dictation
The sixth dictation was devoted to the 30th anniversary of Baikal’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Architecture & Heritage 1 min read
1,966 cultural heritage sites inventoried in the Irkutsk Region
In 2025 alone specialists surveyed more than 400 monuments; the work began in 2022.
Lake Baikal 1 min read
Slyudyanka’s marble station named among the ten most beautiful stations in Russia
In a RIA Novosti ranking, the 1904 station of white and pink marble came sixth.