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Museums[edit]
- City History Museum, Frank Kamenetz, 16A, [1]. 10AM-6PM, Closed Wednesdays. Has an interesting and thorough display of Irkutsk from its inception to the present day. edit
- Irkutsk Regional Museum, Ul. Karla Marksa 2 (across from the Alexander III memorial on the Angara embankment), [2]. Closed Mondays. Has an interesting ethnographic exhibit on indigeous peoples including Even and Buryats, and a display on Irkutsk in the 20th Century. edit
- Sidorov State Mineralogical Museum, Lermontov, 83, IRNITU, Building E, [3]. Over 35,000 items on display. edit
- Sukachev Art Museum, Lenina 5, [4]. Closed Tuesdays. Probably Siberia's best collection of fine art, including several early icons, Russian secular art of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including a few works of Repin, a section of Mongolian and Chinese art, and a section of European art including a collection of lesser-known Dutch masters. edit
Estates[edit]
The Europe House (Shastin's House), Irkutsk
- There are a few historical museums in the houses of Decembrist exiles.
- Volkonskiy House, (behind the Transfiguration Church off Ul. Timuryazeva near the bus station). One of the focal points of the Decembrists' social life in the mid-19th Century. edit
- Trubetskiy House, ul Dzerzhinskogo 64, [5]. 10am-6pm Wed-Mon. RUB200-300. edit
- The Sukachev Estate at Ul. Dekabristov Sobytii 112 near the TANK bus stop. The estate of a 19th-century mayor of Irkutsk showing life of the upper classes at the time, in a series of log houses that he lived in[25].
Religious buildings[edit]
Prince Vladimir Monastery
- Knyaze-Vladimirsky Monastery ul. Kashtanovskaya 52. Built in 1888 in honour of Prince Vladimir who baptisized Rus.
- Znamensky Monastery at ul. Angarskaya 14. Three-centuries old monastery where Alaska explorer Grigory Shelekhov is buried [26]. Nearby it is a monument to Alexander Kolchak, White General. [27]
- Ascension Church (1747-51),
- Epiphany Cathedral (1718-46)
- Our Lady of Kazan Church (1885-92)
- Saviour Church (1706-13)
Monuments[edit]
- Babr Sculpture- sculpture of a lion
Other places[edit]
- Nerpinary, 2 Zheleznodorozhnaya st., 66, ☎ +7 3952 55-44-32 (info@baikalnerpa.ru), [6]. Home to 2 Baikal seals. You can see the seals perform and even paint! edit
- Ice-breaker Angara, (Trolley or bus to Mikrorayon Solnechny), [7]. Weekdays: 10:00AM-5:00PM. The oldest amongst steam ice-breakers in the world, built in 1900 in Newcastle, now a museum docked at the city's port. edit
- There is a big dam and hydroelectricity plant in Irkutsk. You can take trolley bus number 8, which will drive across the dam. Afterwards, you can walk to a fuel station, where you can see the power plant very well. Afterwards, you can walk across the dam. Beside the plant, it's also possible to go up and down the dam itself. Not many people seem to consider the dam and hydroelectric plant as an interesting sight, so you'll be more or less alone there.
- Irkutsk Philarmony. Classic, jazz, folk music performance.[28] on 2, Dzerzhinskogo st.
- In the winter, the central park has many ice sculptures as well as an ice castle that you can walk around in. There are ice slides in this park also. Most Russians stand up and slide on the soles of their shoes. The park is very lively at night with tourists, even though the temperatures drop well below -20 degrees C.
- Hold the right hand's thumb of statue of famous Russian writer A. Vampilov, who was born near Irkutsk, which is located near Drama theather on Karl Marx street for good luck and happiness in your life. It is a new and popular tradition in Irkutsk, started from Vampilov's anniversary.
- Visit Angara embankment at the end of Ul. Karla Marksa in the evening, the place for meeting of the youth.
- Walk down Ul. Uritskogo, a pedestrian street with shops and cafes.
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