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Day Trips

Bolshoye Goloustnoye is a quieter Baikal village about 120 km from Irkutsk, with a wooden church on the shore, a lookout and…

Day Trips

A long day trip on the old Trans-Siberian line along Lake Baikal: by train from Irkutsk to Slyudyanka, then the tunnel-and-bridge section…

Day Trips

Taltsy is an open-air museum of old Siberian wooden buildings on the bank of the Angara, at the 47th km of the…

Day Trips

Listvyanka is the nearest village on Lake Baikal, about 65 km from Irkutsk, where the Angara leaves the lake. A scheduled bus…

Metro Stations

A busy public transport stop called Volzhskaya Street in Irkutsk, served by buses, minibuses and trolleybuses. A tram line there could not…

Metro Stations

Solnechny is a microdistrict on the Irkutsk Reservoir with the Raketa river station and the icebreaker museum. A tram stop there could…

Metro Stations

A tram stop named after Gorky Street in Irkutsk. Irkutsk has no metro, and the stop's exact location and the lines that…

Metro Stations

The tram stop serving Irkutsk Bus Station, the starting point for buses to Listvyanka and Lake Baikal. Irkutsk has no metro; a…

Metro Stations

The tram stop by Irkutsk-Passazhirsky Railway Station on the left bank of the Angara links the station with the rest of the…

Metro Stations

A stop near the Decembrist house museums in the historic center of Irkutsk. The city has no metro, and the exact stop…