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.

RIA Novosti compiled a ranking of the ten most beautiful railway stations in Russia, and Slyudyanka station came sixth — alongside Moscow’s Yaroslavsky and Kazansky stations, Vitebsky station in St Petersburg and the stations of Vladivostok and Novosibirsk.

The building was built in 1904 of unpolished white and pink marble quarried nearby and was one of the landmarks of the Circum-Baikal Railway. In 2005 the station underwent major repairs. On the station square stands a bust of the Minister of Railways Mikhail Khilkov, an honorary citizen of Irkutsk.

Source (in Russian): Glagol, 22 April 2026.