From wooden Siberian houses and exiled 19th century aristocrats, to the protagonists of War and Peace and the indescribable beauty of Lake Baikal – a visit to Irkutsk makes for an extraordinary ...

Lake Baikal is the region’s most important natural asset, which is why thousands of tourists come to Irkutsk every year. Baikal is around 25,000,000 years old and its crystal clear waters cover an ...

Local authorities in Russia‘s Irkutsk region have adopted new Rules for the organization of tourism and recreation in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory, which will limit ...

Suzuku Studies Supernova Crime Scene Shows Single White Dwarf to Blame The city of Irkutsk (centre left) and part of Lake Baikal (right) are pictured in this Sentinel-1A image over Russia’s Siberia ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 1. Shinto and Sikhism are religions that began on which continent? 2. The Carpathian Mountains are located in the central and eastern parts of which ...

The largest city along the Trans-Siberian railway route makes for a charming stop Irkutsk was a name I’ve only seen before on RISK. Yes, the board game. And I had to trawl the internet to find out how ...

The official opening of the ice crossing to the popular tourist destination of Lake Baikal – Olkhon Island – took place in the Irkutsk region. This is the longest ice crossing in the region, its ...

It takes four days to reach Irkutsk Station, more than 5,000 kilometres away from Moscow. With its traditional homes, decorated with delicate lace-like wood trim, the capital of East Siberia is one of ...

This Tuesday, March 12, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered National Resources and Environment Minister Dmitry Kobylkin to verify that the construction of a bottling facility in the Lake Baikal ...

South of the Central Siberian Plateau in Russia, mountains surround Lake Baikal (right) in this image captured by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on October 17, 2007. Lake Baikal is the world’s ...

The expenses of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power plant increased to 3,300±50 cubic meters/s. The corresponding decision, based on the inflow forecast, was made at an extraordinary meeting of the ...