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25 unusual facts about Irkutsk


2009 Ilyushin Il-76 crash

The aircraft was bound for the city of Irkutsk, when several minutes after liftoff it banked to the right, hit a slag heap from an old mine and crashed.

2013 Irkutsk Antonov An-12 crash

On 26 December 2013 at around 21:45 local time, an Antonov An-12 crashed into military warehouses near Irkutsk in eastern Siberia.

Airbus A310

9 July 2006: S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310-324 from Moscow carrying 196 passengers and eight crew, overshot the runway at Irkutsk in Siberia, plowed through a concrete barrier and caught fire as it crashed into buildings.

Baykalsky State University of Economics and Law

The University includes the Institute of Commerce (Irkutsk), the Institute (a branch of BNUEL) in Chita, Institutes (branches) in Ust-Ilimsk, Bratsk, Yakutsk; College of Business and Law, College of Trade and Economy, Post-Graduate and Post Doctoral Courses in 17 areas.

Blind artists

Sergej Popolsin is a Russian painter who - after he had studied at the College of Arts in Irkutsk, Russia - lost his eyesight completely as a result of a serious head injury.

Christopher Szwernicki

In 1849, he was deported to Irkutsk, where he worked until his death as a parish priest of the largest parish in the world (which occupied all of Siberia from the Arctic Ocean to China).

Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Xinjiang, Mongolia.

Decembrist revolt

Maria Volkonsky, the wife of the Decembrist leader Sergei Volkonsky, notably followed her husband to his exile in Irkutsk.

Evstratii Delarov

Grigory Shelikhov met Delarov in Irkutsk and persuaded him to become the chief manager of his establishment at Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island.

Expedition Trophy

The race follows the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, with teams being eliminated at the end of each stage, and the total journey taking 13 days.

Fedir Zharko

After World War II he spent six years incarcerated in Irkutsk and Kolyma for being a village elder during the German occupation of Ukraine.

Harpalus salinus klementzae

Harpalus salinus klementzae is a subspecies of ground beetle native to Central Asia, where it could be found in such countries as Mongolia, Chinese province of Xinjiang, and Russian autonomous regions such as Buryat Republic, Chita, Irkutsk, and Maritime Province.

James Holman

He again set out in 1822 with the incredible design of making the circuit of the world from west to east, something which at the time was almost unheard of by a lone traveler, blind or not - but he travelled through Russia as far east as the Mongolian frontier of Irkutsk.

Kamov Ka-8

The Kamov Ka-8 "Иркутянин", (Irkutyanin - from Irkutsk), was a tiny Soviet helicopter that first flew in 1947.

Kazys Ladiga

Kazys Ladiga (25 December 1893 in Iškonys near Biržai – 19 December 1941 in Irkutsk) was a Lithuanian general and one of the first volunteer officers of the Lithuanian army.

Lebia cruxminor

They were first photographed on 30 March 2002, by a Russian entomologist Oleg Berlov, in Irkutsk, Russia.

Ludzie bezdomni

She lost her parents early in life and not only works to maintain herself, but also her two brothers (one of whom died in Irkutsk, the other studies in Switzerland).

Matsumae clan

At roughly the same time, in 1789, Finnish professor Erik Laxman, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, came across several Japanese castaways in Irkutsk.

Orthodox Church in America

Father John Veniaminov of Irkutsk volunteered for the journey, and left Russia in May 1823.

Project Baikal

The journal is distributed among architects and urbanists who perform scientific research and practice, among the administration of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, universities, governmental, business, architectural and construction organizations of Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, Siberian Federal District, among regional organizations of the Union of Architects of Russia and several foreign branches of the International Union of Architects.

Red-eye flight

Russian airlines operate similar to U.S. airlines by connecting Moscow to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok with overnight red-eye flights.

Siberian Chronicles

до наших дней (Chronicle of the City of Irkutsk from 1652 to present day) by P.Pezhemsky, Краткая летопись Енисейского и Туруханского края Енисейской губернии (A Brief Chronicle of the Yenisey and Turukhansk Krais of the Yenisey Guberniya) (1594–1893) by A.I.Kytmanov.

The Way of a Pilgrim

Therefore, it was "between those two dates," 1853 and 1861, that the Pilgrim arrived at Irkutsk and found a spiritual father, two of the major events in the Pilgrim's narrative.

Tupolev Tu-14

The first five pre-production aircraft did not incorporate these changes as they were built using Tu-73S components after the factory in Irkutsk had prematurely begun production of that bomber.

Yermolayev Yer-2

The Yer-2/ACh-30B was placed into production at Factory No. 39 in Irkutsk at the end of 1943 and the first production aircraft was submitted to its State acceptance trials the following month.


Aleksandr Chistyakov

Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Chistyakov (b. 1980), Russian footballer with FC Baltika Kaliningrad, FC Zvezda Irkutsk and FC Nizhny Novgorod, among others

Angarsky

Angarskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the city of Angarsk in Angarsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Aviaarktika

Aviarktika established routes along the rivers and lakes of Siberia and Northern Russia; the Ob River with a base at Omsk, on the Irtysh and Yenisei rivers, with a base at Krasnoyarsk, on the Angara near Lake Baikal at Irkutsk, and at Yakutsk on the Lena.

Baykalsky

Baykalskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Baykalsk and two rural localities in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Beriev Be-200

The name Altair was chosen as it is not only the name of the alpha star in the Eagle constellation, but also because "Al" is the first part of the name of the A-40 Albatross amphibious aircraft, whose layout was the development basis for the creation of the Be-200, "ta" stands for Taganrog, and "ir" stands for Irkutsk.

Bodaybinsky

Bodaybinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Bodaybo and the selo of Nerpo in Bodaybinsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Buddhism in Buryatia

# Ust-Orda (Abaganat) Datsan: Irkutsk Oblast, village of Ust-Orda

Damdin Sükhbaatar

In early September, Danzan, Losol and Chagdarjav were sent on to Moscow via Omsk, while Sükhbaatar and Choibalsan were to remain in Irkutsk for military training and to maintain contact between the delegation in Moscow and Mongolia.

Drago Siliqi

Siliqi died in 1963, at the age of 33, during an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104B crash near Irkutsk, Soviet Union.

Siliqi died on July 13, 1963 when the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104B, on which he was flying from China to Albania, crashed in the vicinity of the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Soviet Union.

Kemerovo Oblast

The most important monuments of the Kuzbass include the 18th- and 19th-century historical and architectural museum at Kuznetsk Fortress in Novokuznetsk, a group of monuments and historic sites on the former Siberian Highway (Moscow-Irkutsk), and the Shestakovsky historical and cultural complex of archeological monuments and paleontological sites in Chebulinsky District.

Lebia cruxminor

The species can be found in Irkutsk, Russia, and various German towns such as: Kulbach district of Bavaria, and Upper Franconia.

Polyphonic Size

In 1987, Polyphonic Size played in Moscow, Irkutsk and Beijing, as part of a cultural exchange between Belgium, USSR and China, turning the Trans-Siberian train into an artistic residence.

Slyudyansky

Slyudyanskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Slyudyanka and two rural localities in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Sukhoi Su-30

The first 2 Su-30MKMs were formally handed over in Irkutsk on 23 May 2007, later arrived in Gong Kedak airbase on 21 June.

Tofa

Tofa language, a Turkic language spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast

Valentin Rasputin

He was an honoured guest for many events in the city of Irkutsk, including the unveilings of the monuments to Czar Alexander III, Alexander Vampilov and Admiral Kolchak.

Vladimir Tomilovsky

They are also part of some private collections around the world: in Irkutsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Paris (France), Athens (Greece), Ashkelon, Ashdod (Israel), Zurich (Switzerland), London (UK), Brno (Czech Republic).

Yury Lomonosov

During the trip, he visited numerous cites of the Far East including Irkutsk, Harbin, Port Arthur, Vladivostok, as well as some cities in Japan (Nagasaki) and China (Beijing).

Zheleznogorsky

Zheleznogorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky in Nizhneilimsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as