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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Irkutsk to Listvyanka: First Encounter with Baikal
The Taltsy museum, the source of the Angara and the Baikal Museum in one day
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Irkutsk to Khuzhir on Olkhon Island
A road across the steppe, the Olkhon Gate crossing and a first evening on the island
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Khuzhir, Cape Burkhan and Shaman Rock
A local museum, the old pier, Baikal’s great emblem and sunset over the Maloye More
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The Circum-Baikal Railway and Port Baikal
From Slyudyanka along the lake through tunnels and galleries — then by ferry to Listvyanka
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The Angara Embankment
Along the only river that flows out of Lake Baikal
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