[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.[8]. [citation needed] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk[1]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. [48], In Irkutsk, there are 384 sports facilities, of which 200 are municipal ones. Закона №2-У от 14 декабря 2017 г. Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District,[2] even though it is not a part of it. Forecast - Irkutsk. Located in the south of the eponymous oblast, the city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, about 850 kilometres (530 mi) to the south-east of Krasnoyarsk and about 520 kilometres (320 mi) north of Ulaanbaatar. Законодательное Собрание Иркутской области. Locals like to think of their city as "middle of the earth". Many distinguished Russians were sent into exile in Irkutsk for their part in the Decembrist revolt of 1825, and the city became an exile-post for the rest of the century. [15] The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream. The Botanic Garden of the Irkutsk State University known as the "Irkutsk Botanic Garden" is the only botanic garden as a living museum in Irkutsk Oblast and Baikalian Siberia. Опубликован: "Восточно-Сибирская правда", №254–255, 20 декабря 2004 г. Polunina N.M., Korobov S.A., Sutton J.M., Korobova G.W.

Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Irkutsk area. Irkutsk Weather Forecasts. This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 22:23. Last updated today at 11:59. They had wooden houses built that were adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations.

[45] It is also the centre of women's bandy in Russia with the club Rekord,[46] which provides most players to the national team.

[15] Three-quarters of the city was destroyed, including approximately 4,000 houses. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov built an ostrog (a small fort) nearby. Its name was derived from the Buryat word for "spinning," and was used as an ethnonym among local tribes, who were known as Yrkhu, Irkit, Irgit, and Irgyt. Today, Light cloud and light winds. According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million. Irkutsk (/ɪərˈkutsk/ eer-KOOTSK;[13] Russian: Иркутск, IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]; Buryat and Mongolian: Эрхүү, Erhüü) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Закона №12-ОЗ от 23 марта 2017 г. During the Russian Civil War, which broke out after the October Revolution, Irkutsk became the site of many furious, bloody clashes between the "White movement" and the "Bolsheviks", known as the "Reds". Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow. It has a federal status of especially protected land and a nature memorial of Irkutsk. During the communist years, the industrialization of Irkutsk and Siberia in general was strongly encouraged. Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the 25th largest city in Russia by population, the 5th largest in the Siberian Federal District, and one of the largest cities in Siberia.