Irkutsk is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the 25th-largest city in Russia by population, the fifth-largest in the Siberian Federal District, and one of the largest cities in Siberia.
Irkutsk Castle in 1735
Irkutsk Assembly of the Nobility in the early 1900s
Epiphany Cathedral and central Irkutsk in 1865
Irkutsk in 1918
Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. It borders the Republic of Buryatia and the Tuva Republic in the south and southwest, which separate it from Khövsgöl Province in Mongolia; Krasnoyarsk Krai in the west; the Sakha Republic in the northeast; and Zabaykalsky Krai in the east. It had a population of 2,370,102 at the 2021 Census.
Spring time at the Irkutsk Botanic Garden. The pink blooming bushes in the middle are a relic plant, Prunus pedunculata. Picea pungens trees are seen in the backdrop.
The Circum-Baikal Railway skirts the southwestern tip of Lake Baikal
1866 ground-breaking ceremony for the Chapel of Christ the Savior in Irkutsk
Chapel of the Savior and Medvednikovsky Bank, 1897
