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Irkutsk Oblast|AdmCtrOf=[Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsky District|Charter=[Charter of Irkutsk in [Siberia and the administrative center of
Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow. Population: 593,604 (
Russian Census (2002)) Russian Census Cities and towns with population of 50 thousand people and over in 1989 and 2002; 622,301 (
Soviet Census (1989)); 500,000 (1975); 49,106 (1900); 35,512 (1875).
Geography and climate
The city proper lies at the Angara River, a
tributary of the Yenisei River, below its outflow from
Lake Baikal, and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, which has a breadth of is crossed by a flying bridge. The
Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a small river which joins the Angara directly opposite the town. The main portion of the city is separated from several important landmarks—the monastery, the fort, and the port, as well as its suburbs by another tributary, the Ida, or Ushakovka River.
As a Siberian city, Irkutsk experiences a subarctic climate, characterized by extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. Temperatures can be very warm in the summer, and brutally cold in the winter. The warmest month of the year in Irkutsk is July, when the mean temperature is , and the coldest month of the year is January, when the mean temperature is only . Precipitation (meteorology) also varies widely throughout the year, with the wettest month also being July, when precipitation averages 119 mm (4.70 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 mm (.30 in), mainly due to the fact that almost all precipitaion during the Siberian winter falls as fluffy, low moisture content snow.
Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga, typical of eastern Siberia, and in contrast to the flat, open
steppe of western Siberia.
According to the regional plan Irkutsk city will be agglomerated with the satellite industrial towns of
Shelekhov and
Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over one million.
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History
Irkutsk grew out of the winter quarters established (1652) by
Yakov Pokhabov for gold-trading and for the collection of the fur tax from the Buryats. The town gained official city rights from the government in 1686. The first road connection between Moscow and Irkutsk, the Siberian Road (,
Sibirsky Trakt), was built in 1760. The city benefitted economically from this new road. Many new products, often imported from China, were widely available in Irkutsk for the first time, including
gold, diamonds, furs,
wood, silk, and tea.
During the past centuries Siberia, with its severe climate, has had a reputation as the place for exile. In Genghis Khan's army, punishment was either death or exile to Siberia.{{cite web]s, officers, and nobility were sent into exile to Siberia for their part in the
Decembrist revolt against
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today in stark contrast with the standard Soviet Union apartment blocks that surround them.
By the end of the 19th century there was one exiled man per two locals. Different people from the members of the Decembrist's uprising to Bolsheviks have been staying in Irkutsk for a long time. These people have greatly influenced the culture and the development of the city and it has finally became a prosperous cultural and educational center for Eastern Siberia.
Irkutsk has long been reputed to be a remarkably fine city—its streets being straight, broad, well paved and well lighted; but in 1879, on
July 4 and July 6, the palace of the (then) Governor General, the principal administrative and municipal offices and many of the other public buildings were destroyed by fire; and the government
archives, the library, and the
museum of the Siberian section of the Russian Geographical Society were utterly ruined. Three quarters of the city were destroyed, including approximately four thousand houses. However, the city quickly rebounded, with electricity arriving in 1896, the first theater being built in 1897, and a major train station in 1898. The first train arrived in Irkutsk on
August 16 of that year. By 1900, the city had earned the
nickname "The Paris of Siberia."
During the
Russian Civil War that broke out after the Bolshevik Revolution, Irkutsk became the site of many furious, bloody clashes between the "White movement" and the "
Bolsheviks". In 1920,
Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed there, effectively destroying the anti-Bolshevik resistance.
During the Communist years, the industrialization of Irkutsk, and Siberia in general, was heavily encouraged. The large
Irkutsk Reservoir was built on the Angara between 1950 and 1959 in order to facilitate industrial development.
The Epiphany Cathedral (
illustrated, to the right), the governor's palace, a school of medicine, a museum, a military hospital, and the crown factories are among the public institutions and buildings. The Alexander Kolchak monument, designed by Vyacheslav Klykov, was unveiled in 2004. On July 27,
2004, the
Irkutsk Synagogue (1881) was gutted by a conflagration.
Emblem
The emblem of Irkutsk features an old symbol of
Dauria: a
Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the emblem was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger ("babr", a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a
sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the
Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the
Siberia Khanate repesenting a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word "sable" is derived from the Russian "sobol").
By the mid-19th century, the word "babr" had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the
Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became entinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that "babr" was a misspelling of "bobr", the Russian word for "beaver", and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the "babr" as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.
The Soviets abolished the ridiculous image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Transport
station in Irkutsk
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and
Mongolia. Also, the city is served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
Federal road to Vladivostok goes via Irkutsk suburb.
Television and mass media
There are many state and privately owned television stations in Irkutsk, including state IGTRK company http://irkutsk.rfn.ru and private ones http://as.baikal.tv AS Baikal TV, TV company AIST http://www.aisttv.ru, TV company Gorod http://www.gorodtv.ru, and e.g. http://www.vsp.ru VSP newspaper agency.Irkutsk live webcamera inlc. life temperature in city center: http://as.baikal.tv/webcam/
Twin cities
City of
Shenyang,
People's Republic of China; city of
Kanazawa, Japan; city of
Eugene, Oregon,
United States, and Ulan Bator, capital of neighbouring Mongolia, are twin city of Irkutsk.
Education
Irkutsk is home to Irkutsk State Railway Transport University (since 1975),
Irkutsk State University (1918), Baykalsky State University of Economics & Law (since 1932),
Irkutsk State Technical University (since 1939),
Irkutsk State Academy of Agriculture, Irkutsk State Linguistic University (1948), Irkutsk State Medical University,
Irkutsk State Pedagogical College, and a number of private colleges:
Siberian Institute of Law, Economics and Management (since 1993), Institute of Economics of ISTU (since 1996), and others.
Science
As part of the Siberian Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences there are nine research institutes located in the Irkutsk Academgorodok suburb: Institute of Geography, Energy Systems Institute, Institute of Geochemistry, Institute of Systems Dynamics and Control Theory, Earth's Crust Institute, solar-terrestrial physics institute, Institute of Chemistry, Institute of Limnology (located on lake Baikal shore), Institute of Plants Physics, Laser Physics Institute (Branch of the Novosibirsk-based Institute). Apart from SB RAS Research Institutes, there are R&D institutes including
GAZPROM R&D Institute (Branch of Moscow-based Institute), Irkutsk Institute of Less-Common and Precious Metals and Diamonds.
Images of Irkutsk
Image:Irkutsk architecture.jpg|A
Decembrist house, with distinctive hand-carved trimImage:Kazansky Church Irkutsk.jpg|Kazansky ChurchImage:Irkutsk station.jpg|Irkutsk railway station on Trans-Siberian railwayImage:Irkutsk pereprava.jpg|
Crossing the Angara at Irkutsk (1886)
References
Notes
Additional sources
External links
- Satellite picture by Google Maps
- Flickr photos tagged irkutsk
- Irkutsk in old and modern photos
- Kyzyl
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Irkutsk Oblast|AdmCtrOf=[Irkutsk Oblast,
Irkutsky District|Charter=[Charter of Irkutsk in [Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from
Moscow. Population: 593,604 (Russian Census (2002)) Russian Census Cities and towns with population of 50 thousand people and over in 1989 and 2002; 622,301 (
Soviet Census (1989)); 500,000 (1975); 49,106 (1900); 35,512 (1875).
Geography and climate
The city proper lies at the
Angara River, a tributary of the
Yenisei River, below its outflow from
Lake Baikal, and on the bank opposite the
suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, which has a breadth of is crossed by a flying bridge. The
Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a small river which joins the Angara directly opposite the town. The main portion of the city is separated from several important landmarks—the
monastery, the
fort, and the port, as well as its suburbs by another tributary, the Ida, or Ushakovka River.
As a Siberian city, Irkutsk experiences a subarctic climate, characterized by extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. Temperatures can be very warm in the summer, and brutally cold in the winter. The warmest month of the year in Irkutsk is July, when the mean temperature is , and the coldest month of the year is January, when the mean temperature is only . Precipitation (meteorology) also varies widely throughout the year, with the wettest month also being July, when precipitation averages 119 mm (4.70 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 mm (.30 in), mainly due to the fact that almost all precipitaion during the Siberian winter falls as fluffy, low moisture content snow.
Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga, typical of eastern Siberia, and in contrast to the flat, open steppe of western Siberia.
According to the regional plan Irkutsk city will be agglomerated with the satellite industrial towns of
Shelekhov and
Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over one million.
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History
Irkutsk grew out of the winter quarters established (1652) by
Yakov Pokhabov for gold-trading and for the collection of the fur tax from the
Buryats. The town gained official city rights from the government in 1686. The first road connection between
Moscow and Irkutsk, the Siberian Road (,
Sibirsky Trakt), was built in 1760. The city benefitted economically from this new road. Many new products, often imported from China, were widely available in Irkutsk for the first time, including
gold,
diamonds,
furs,
wood, silk, and
tea.
During the past centuries Siberia, with its severe climate, has had a reputation as the place for exile. In Genghis Khan's army, punishment was either death or exile to Siberia.{{cite web]s, officers, and nobility were sent into exile to Siberia for their part in the
Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today in stark contrast with the standard
Soviet Union apartment blocks that surround them.
By the end of the 19th century there was one exiled man per two locals. Different people from the members of the Decembrist's uprising to Bolsheviks have been staying in Irkutsk for a long time. These people have greatly influenced the culture and the development of the city and it has finally became a prosperous cultural and educational center for Eastern Siberia.
Irkutsk has long been reputed to be a remarkably fine city—its streets being straight, broad, well paved and well lighted; but in 1879, on
July 4 and July 6, the palace of the (then) Governor General, the principal administrative and municipal offices and many of the other public buildings were destroyed by fire; and the government archives, the
library, and the museum of the Siberian section of the
Russian Geographical Society were utterly ruined. Three quarters of the city were destroyed, including approximately four thousand houses. However, the city quickly rebounded, with electricity arriving in 1896, the first theater being built in 1897, and a major train station in 1898. The first train arrived in Irkutsk on August 16 of that year. By 1900, the city had earned the
nickname "The Paris of Siberia."
During the Russian Civil War that broke out after the
Bolshevik Revolution, Irkutsk became the site of many furious, bloody clashes between the "White movement" and the "
Bolsheviks". In 1920,
Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed there, effectively destroying the anti-Bolshevik resistance.
During the Communist years, the industrialization of Irkutsk, and Siberia in general, was heavily encouraged. The large Irkutsk Reservoir was built on the Angara between 1950 and 1959 in order to facilitate industrial development.
The Epiphany Cathedral (
illustrated, to the right), the governor's palace, a school of medicine, a museum, a military hospital, and the crown factories are among the public institutions and buildings. The Alexander Kolchak monument, designed by
Vyacheslav Klykov, was unveiled in 2004. On
July 27,
2004, the Irkutsk Synagogue (1881) was gutted by a conflagration.
Emblem
The emblem of Irkutsk features an old symbol of
Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the emblem was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger ("babr", a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a
sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the
Siberia Khanate repesenting a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word "sable" is derived from the Russian "sobol").
By the mid-19th century, the word "babr" had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became entinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that "babr" was a misspelling of "bobr", the Russian word for "
beaver", and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the "babr" as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.
The Soviets abolished the ridiculous image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Transport
station in Irkutsk
Important roads and railways like the
Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and
Mongolia. Also, the city is served by the
Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller
Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
Federal road to Vladivostok goes via Irkutsk suburb.
Television and mass media
There are many state and privately owned television stations in Irkutsk, including state IGTRK company http://irkutsk.rfn.ru and private ones http://as.baikal.tv AS Baikal TV, TV company AIST http://www.aisttv.ru, TV company Gorod http://www.gorodtv.ru, and e.g. http://www.vsp.ru VSP newspaper agency.Irkutsk live webcamera inlc. life temperature in city center: http://as.baikal.tv/webcam/
Twin cities
City of
Shenyang, People's Republic of China; city of Kanazawa,
Japan; city of
Eugene, Oregon, United States, and Ulan Bator, capital of neighbouring
Mongolia, are twin city of Irkutsk.
Education
Irkutsk is home to
Irkutsk State Railway Transport University (since 1975),
Irkutsk State University (1918),
Baykalsky State University of Economics & Law (since 1932), Irkutsk State Technical University (since 1939), Irkutsk State Academy of Agriculture,
Irkutsk State Linguistic University (1948), Irkutsk State Medical University,
Irkutsk State Pedagogical College, and a number of private colleges: Siberian Institute of Law, Economics and Management (since 1993),
Institute of Economics of ISTU (since 1996), and others.
Science
As part of the Siberian Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences there are nine research institutes located in the Irkutsk Academgorodok suburb: Institute of Geography, Energy Systems Institute, Institute of Geochemistry, Institute of Systems Dynamics and Control Theory, Earth's Crust Institute, solar-terrestrial physics institute, Institute of Chemistry, Institute of Limnology (located on lake Baikal shore), Institute of Plants Physics, Laser Physics Institute (Branch of the Novosibirsk-based Institute). Apart from SB RAS Research Institutes, there are R&D institutes including GAZPROM R&D Institute (Branch of Moscow-based Institute), Irkutsk Institute of Less-Common and Precious Metals and Diamonds.
Images of Irkutsk
Image:Irkutsk architecture.jpg|A
Decembrist house, with distinctive hand-carved trimImage:Kazansky Church Irkutsk.jpg|Kazansky ChurchImage:Irkutsk station.jpg|Irkutsk railway station on Trans-Siberian railwayImage:Irkutsk pereprava.jpg|
Crossing the Angara at Irkutsk (1886)
References
Notes
Additional sources
External links
- Satellite picture by Google Maps
- Flickr photos tagged irkutsk
- Irkutsk in old and modern photos
- Kyzyl
WWW Irkutsk
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