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Wide and free, the vast landmass of Siberia lies behind the Ural mountains. For many centuries, not only for foreign travelers but also for Russians themselves, Siberia seemed to be "unknown territory", unsafe and barbaric.
And even now, some visitors from foreign countries still seem to regard our land as a god-forsaken hole or "the gigantic building site of the century." And so Irkutsk opens up to them even more brightly and suddenly the richness of its spirit and culture, which have developed under enormous difficulties and hardships for more than three centuries. And there are many things to be astonished at.

Siberia Belies Its Somber Image An article from The New York Times on Irkutsk

HISTORY: Short historical essay - Decembrists in Irkutsk - Irkutsk Chronicle - Famous people in history - Trans-Siberian RailRoad in world history - From the Sea to the River:  Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak  and the Russian Civil War  - Mme. Pola - fashion designer from Irkutsk - 1985 is history already  -  The construction of Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station New!

Sep 12, 2001
The Irkutsk Regional police headquarters has called on the population of the Region to step up vigilance. The local residents who have witnessed three major air crashes on their territory over the past few years commiserate with the Americans. The Regional legislature said in a statement published on Wednesday: "We understand and take close to our hearts the pain, the grief and the suffering of thousands of innocent families."

INDEX

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[] SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Irkutsk Scientific Centre
Honoured projects
Sun observatory
Underwater neutrino telescope
Su-30 and other planes
Irkutians in space

[] TOURISM
Tour operators New!
Trains and flights to Irkutsk
City maps, public transport
Bed and Breakfast
Hotels
Before you leave home

[] SERVICES
On-Line Reservation Desk Updated!
1-2-3 Russian Visa
Quality services
Prepaid GSM in Irkutsk
Iridium satellite phone
Services for expatriates  

Irkutsk Electronic Yellow Pages
Area codes

[] CULTURE
Public activities, communities
TV stations
Siberian Art
Local recipes
The Okhlopkov Drama Theatre
Siberian tradition of drinking tea
Icbreaker "Angara"
Irkutsk athletes


[] INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Funding Opportunities
Irkutsk in Europe
Sister cities
Ecology and internships

[] MEDIA
Newswires
Newsfeeds by Moreover.com
Other news sources
Financial Times on Irkutsk
WWW Irkutsk Newsletters
Ostisibirien Magazin
(German, old issue)
Ancient winter games Video

[] FEATURED STORIES
AIDS problem in Irkutsk, August 2001
The construction of the new runway
Airplane crash, July 4, 2001
Russian-Japanese meeting, March 25 2001
Baikal Forum, Sep 20-23, 2000
Building of the new bridge
Elections 2000, Mar 26, 2000
Putin in Irkutsk, Feb 18, 2000
Earthquake , Feb 26, 1999
Airplane Crash, Dec 6, 1997
Solar Eclipse, Mar 9, 1997

[] BUSINESS
Economic overview
Companies, Banks...
Oil and Gas
Investment
Registration of business
Job Opportunities
Fairs and Exhibitions

[] CLIMATE AND WEATHER
Overview of climate by seasons
Current weather and forecast

[] INTERNET
Connection to Internet in Irkutsk
Internet roaming in Irkutsk
Irkutsk on the Internet

LAKE BAIKAL

The first visit to Lake Baikal leaves you
with an impression of might, purity and grandeur...

Click here to enter Lake Baikal website

Review: On this page you will find a photo album of Baikal's
wild nature, information and links

IRKUTSK INTERACTIVE

Tvoi gorod.com

On-line Reservation desk Updated! (book your jorney to Irkutsk on-line)

WWW Irkutsk Web Forum (discuss here everything related to Irkutsk and Baikal)

Air temperature in the city center (hourly live updates)

Daily photos from Irkutsk (by Igor Bulygin)

Day by day: selected and captioned photos from Irkutsk

FT service: Irkutsk newswires

Newsfeeds from Moreover.com

Botanic Garden of Irkutsk State University New!

Homestay Bed and Breakfast (On-line reservation)

On-Line Souvenir Shop (Irkutsk Souvenirs, order on-line)

Advertising Desk (self-updated page in English  for local and international businesses)

Irkutsk PhotoAlbum (collection of Irkutsk images)

Slide show (small and quick version of PhotoAlbum)

Screenshots from Irkutsk TV   New!

Irkutsk Web Chat (Enter your nickname, ask for anybody speaking English)

Virtual Walk through Irkutsk embankment VRML viewer required

Irkutskenergo Stock quotes of biggest Irkutsk companies Indices and finanical news in Russian

On the right: IrkutskEnergo IRGZ 3 month chart

Alibris by title by author



 

Boris Govorin
Governor of Irkutsk Region Boris Govorin

IRKUTSK WEB

Business Net - Irkutsk
Siberian  Express
Akademgorodok

Central Agency of Air Traffic
State Custom

Cooler  -  computer magazine on-line

Chamber of commerce

Irkutsk-na-Seti

Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda
Reflections about Tungus meteorite

Baikal in FAQ

Irkutsk-OnLine/News

Weather in Irkutsk

SOUNDS OF IRKUTSK

 
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ralogo2.gif (662 bytes) "Angara river" - folk song
ralogo2.gif (662 bytes) Our English guest tells about Irkutsk and western stereotypes of winter in Siberia
ralogo2.gif (662 bytes) Folk song "Slavnoe More Svyashcheny Baikal"
ralogo2.gif (662 bytes) Callsigns of IGTRK - Irkutsk state radio

ON-LINE VIDEO

 

Ancient winter games at the Museum of Wooden Architechture

Yacht regatta at Baikal - yachts and landscape download .mpg 0,7 MB

Another video from regatta at Baikal, Angara shore download .mpg  1,4 MB

Yacht club Istok (Website in Russian)

Scientific convention near Irkutsk download .mpg 5,5 MB

Accordionist in the shopping area download .mpg 5,3 MB

Forest near Irkutsk download .mpg 5,3 MB

Souvenir market at Baikal shore in Listvyanka download .mpg 5,3 MB

American visitor at the Baikal shore download .mpg 5,3 MB

Source and copyright (last 5 videos)

Trans-Siberian, outside and inside the train download .mov 0.5 MB (purchase VHS video here)

Nature: Brown bear download .avi 3.6 MB

Nature: Baikal Seal download .avi 7 MB

Nature: Lynx download .avi 1 MB

Nature: Baikal Cedar download .avi 2 MB

Nature: Mixed forest from helicopter download .avi 2 MB

Nature: Fir forest download .avi 4 MB

Furs farm download .avi 5 MB

Nature: Lambs download .avi 4.7 MB

Nature: Pine forest in winter download .avi 2 MB

Nature: Trans-Sib train in winter Taiga download .avi 5.4 MB

Nature: Taiga in summer download .avi 2 MB

Nature: Wooden architecture download .avi 40 MB


 


WEATHER AND TIME

INTELLICAST: Current weather in Irkutsk and four-day forecast
5-day weather forecast from Yahoo
Weather in Irkutsk from CNN
Weather in Irkutsk from Russian HydroMeteoCenter

  Current time in Irkutsk and the sun footprint

Irkutsk time = Moscow time + 5 hours
or
Irkutsk time = UTC + 8 hours (Winter)
Irkutsk time = UTC + 9 hours (Summer)

Time changes occur the last Sunday in March and October.
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) = GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)


Dear guests!
Our historic city will welcome you with its typical Russian friendliness,
radiating the warmth and the light of its rich culture.

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Aknowledgments:

I wish to express my sincere appreciations to Alexei Babanine for his consulting on any technical and organizing problems.
A big thank you to Uta Kohler, who helped this site significantly, checked the language and inspired us to design this server better (Click here for her impressions about Irkutsk and Baikal).
Many thanks to Friends and Partners and Greg Cole, who provided the server for the mirror site in the USA.
Special thanks to Gleb Stupin for his great efforts to support the connection of our server to INTERNET.
A big thank you to P. Bachteler , H. Fischer and Landratsamt Zollernalbkreis (Local Council Zollern), Germany for providing equipment for our work.
I sincerely thank Fred Robinson for his great permanent support.
Great thanks to Voitov O.N.  for his everyday support of this activity.

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