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.
On 23 April 2026 the exhibition “365 on Irkutsk Time”, marking the city’s 365th anniversary, opened in the main building of the V. P. Sukachev Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. More than 200 works in three halls: painting, graphics, sculpture, installations, decorative and applied art and jewellery.
The 19th century is represented by the “View of Irkutsk from Across the Angara” by Yegor Meyer and Viktor Rezanov (the painting was begun by Meyer and finished by Rezanov) and Nikolai Dobrovolsky’s “Crossing the Angara in Irkutsk” of 1886. Contemporary artists include Anatoly Kostovsky, Vladimir Kuzmin, Vladimir Sokolov, Sergei Kazantsev, Tatyana Lareva, Yuri Kvasov and Regina Prisyazhnikova. Pavel Lodyanov made models of buildings in the centre of Irkutsk. “Here we can see the artistic chronicle of Irkutsk,” said deputy culture minister Svetlana Kaplina. The exhibition ran until 14 June.
Source (in Russian): Oblastnaya Gazeta, 24 April 2026.
