The Historic Centre of Irkutsk
From the Moscow Gate to the White House: three centuries in one walk
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Routes
Twenty self-guided routes — walks through Irkutsk and journeys to Lake Baikal — with maps, stop-by-stop itineraries and practical advice.
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Wooden Architecture and Merchant Houses
Carved window frames, lace-like eaves and houses sinking into the ground
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The Decembrists and the History of Siberian Exile
The Volkonsky and Trubetskoy houses, Princess Trubetskaya’s grave and a city of exiled scholars
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A One-Day Introduction to Irkutsk
The essentials, from the cathedral to sunset over the Angara
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The Angara Embankment
Along the only river that flows out of Lake Baikal
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Churches, Monasteries and Religious Architecture
Siberian baroque, neo-Gothic, a synagogue and a mosque — a city of many faiths
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Museums and Cultural Irkutsk
Sukachev’s paintings, the Geographical Society’s collections, city history and a nineteenth-century estate
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Irkutsk Through Its Streets and Courtyards
Apartment houses, the central market, pedestrian Uritskogo Street and quiet Jerusalem Hill
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Family-Friendly Irkutsk
The babr, the planetarium, Yunost Island, the children’s railway and an icebreaker
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