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6 unusual facts about Irkutsk Oblast


Irkutsk Oblast

On November 2012 Rostelecom inaugurated commercial HSPA+ services in the Oblast, through its subsidiary, Baikalwestcom.

Irkutsky

Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutskaya Oblast), a federal subject of Russia

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

SS Baikal

By June 1896 the icebreaker had been delivered for assembly to the village of Listvenichnoye.

Before the Circum-Baikal Railway was opened in 1905, Baikal, and later the Angara, carried two loads a day between piers at Baikal and Mysovaya.

Yury Chaika

After serving in the army, he graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in 1976 and began work at Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office where he served as an investigator and a deputy district prosecutor.


Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline

At the same time, Transneft proposed an alternative project to pipe oil from Taishet in Irkutsk Oblast to the Far East port Kozmino near Nakhodka.

Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

A significant number of Japanese were assigned to the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (over 200,000 persons), in eight camps, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (two camps, for two railroad branches), Sovetskaya Gavan, Raychikha railroad station (Khabarovsk Krai), Izvestkovaya r/r station (Khabarovsk Krai), Krasnaya Zarya (Chita Oblast), Taishet, and Novo-Grishino (Irkutsk Oblast).


see also

Angarsky

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

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

Belaya River

Bolshaya Belaya River, a tributary of the Angara River in Irkutsk Oblast

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

Kirensky

Kirenskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kirensk and nine rural localities in Kirensky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Nizhneudinsky

Nizhneudinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Nizhneudinsk in Nizhneudinsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Shelekhovsky

Shelekhovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Shelekhov in Shelekhovsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Tayshetsky

Tayshetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Tayshet in Tayshetsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Tofa

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

Ust-Kutsky

Ust-Kutskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Ust-Kut and the selo of Turuka in Ust-Kutsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Zheleznogorsky

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