Irkutsk (Pravoberezhny okrug, the historic center on the Angara)

This page covers the historic center of Irkutsk on the Angara, described in the guide to Historic City Center, Irkutsk, the oldest part of the city, where a Cossack fort was founded in the seventeenth century. The center holds old churches, wooden houses, main streets and the river embankments, and most of it can be explored on foot. Use the guide to plan a walking route and to see how the districts around it connect.