Eastern Siberia
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsky District

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is the capital of the province of in . The historic centre of Irkutsk is included on UNESCO's tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
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  • Type: City with 611,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, in eastern Russia
  • Also known as: “Erhuu” and “Erhüü”
Photo: Дмитрий Морозов, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Andrello, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Irkutsk railway station and City History Museum, Irkutsk.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
Irkutsk–Passazhirsky is the primary passenger railway station for the city of Irkutsk in , and an important stop along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The main building takes an area of 7,590 square metres.

Museum
Photo: AlPot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include 130 kvartal.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Irkutsk

Latitude
52.2891° or 52° 17′ 21″ north
Longitude
104.2798° or 104° 16′ 47″ east
Population
611,000
Elevation
415 metres (1,362 feet)
Inception
1661
IATA airport code
IKT
United Nations Location Code
RU IKT
Open location code
9P4677QH+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27505335
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2023469
Wiki­data ID
Q6576
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Irkutsk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Irkoetsk”
  • Albanian: “Irkuck”
  • Albanian: “Irkucku”
  • Arabic: “إركوتسك”
  • Arabic: “إيركوتسك”
  • Armenian: “Իրկուտսկ”
  • Azerbaijani: “İrkutsk”
  • Bashkir: “Иркутск”
  • Basque: “Irkutsk”
  • Belarusian: “Іркуцк”
  • Bengali: “ইর্কুতস্ক”
  • Bosnian: “Irkutsk”
  • Breton: “Irkoutsk”
  • Bulgarian: “Иркутск”
  • Catalan: “Irkutsk”
  • Cebuano: “Irkutsk (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rusya)”
  • Cebuano: “Irkutsk”
  • Chechen: “Иркутск”
  • Chinese: “Irkutsk”
  • Chinese: “伊尔库次克”
  • Chinese: “伊尔库茨克”
  • Chinese: “伊爾庫斯克”
  • Chinese: “伊爾庫次克”
  • Chinese: “伊爾庫茨克”
  • Church Slavic: “Иркоутьскъ”
  • Chuvash: “Иркутск”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İrkutsk”
  • Croatian: “Irkutsk”
  • Czech: “Irkutsk”
  • Danish: “Irkutsk”
  • Dutch: “Irkoetsk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Иркутск”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايركوتسك”
  • Erzya: “Иркутск ош”
  • Erzya: “Иркутской ош”
  • Esperanto: “Irkutsk”
  • Esperanto: “Irkutsko”
  • Estonian: “Irkutsk”
  • Finnish: “Irkutsk”
  • French: “Irkoutsk”
  • French: “Irkutsk”
  • Galician: “Irkutsk”
  • Georgian: “ირკუტსკი”
  • German: “Irkutsk”
  • Greek: “Ιρκούτσκ”
  • Gujarati: “ઈરકુત્સ્ક”
  • Hausa: “Irkutsk”
  • Hebrew: “אירקוטסק”
  • Hebrew: “אירקוצק”
  • Hindi: “इरकुत्स्क”
  • Hungarian: “Irkutszk”
  • Icelandic: “Írkúsk”
  • Ido: “Irkutsk”
  • Inari Sami: “Irkutsk”
  • Indonesian: “Irkutsk”
  • Irish: “Irkutsk”
  • Italian: “Irkutsk”
  • Japanese: “イルクーツク”
  • Kannada: “ಇರ್ಕುಟ್ಸ್ಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Irkùck”
  • Kazakh: “Иркутск”
  • Kirghiz: “Иркутск”
  • Komi: “Иркутск”
  • Korean: “이르쿠츠크”
  • Kotava: “Irkutsk”
  • Ladin: “Irkutsk”
  • Ladino: “Irkutsk”
  • Latin: “Ircutia”
  • Latvian: “Irkutska”
  • Lithuanian: “Irkutskas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Irkutsk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Irkutsk”
  • Macedonian: “Иркутск”
  • Malay: “Irkutsk”
  • Marathi: “इरकुत्स्क”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Irkutsk”
  • Mingrelian: “ირკუტსკი”
  • Moksha: “Иркутск”
  • Mongolian: “Эрхүү хот”
  • Mongolian: “Эрхүү”
  • Northern Frisian: “Irkutsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Irkutsk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irkutsk”
  • Norwegian: “Irkutsk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Irkotsk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Irkutsk”
  • Ossetian: “Иркутск”
  • Persian: “ایرکوتسک”
  • Polish: “Irkuck”
  • Portuguese: “Irkutsk”
  • Romanian: “Irkuțk”
  • Romanian: “Irkutsc”
  • Romanian: “Irkutsk”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эрхүү хото”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эрхүү”
  • Russian: “Иркутск”
  • Russian: “Ирку́тск”
  • Scots: “Irkutsk”
  • Serbian: “Иркутск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Irkutsk”
  • Sicilian: “Irkutsk”
  • Silesian: “Irkutsk”
  • Sinhala: “ඉර්කුට්ස්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Irkutsk”
  • Slovenian: “Irkutsk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایرکوتسک”
  • Spanish: “Irkutsk”
  • Swahili: “Irkutsk”
  • Swedish: “Irkutsk”
  • Tagalog: “Irkutsk”
  • Tajik: “Иркутск”
  • Talysh: “Irkutsk”
  • Talysh: “İrkutsk”
  • Tamil: “இர்கூட்ஸ்க்”
  • Tatar: “Иркутск”
  • Tatar: “Өркет”
  • Telugu: “ఇర్కూట్స్క్”
  • Thai: “อีร์คุตสค์”
  • Tumbuka: “Irkutsk”
  • Turkish: “İrkutsk”
  • Turkmen: “Irkutsk”
  • Tuvinian: “Иркутск”
  • Udmurt: “Иркутск”
  • Ukrainian: “Іркутськ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Irkutsk”
  • Urdu: “ایرکتسک”
  • Uzbek: “Irkutsk”
  • Venetian: “Irkutsk”
  • Veps: “Irkutsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Irkutsk”
  • Walloon: “Irkoutsk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Irkutsk”
  • Welsh: “Irkutsk”
  • Western Frisian: “Irkûtsk”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارکٹسک”
  • Wolof: “Irkutsk”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊尔库茨克”
  • Yakut: “Иркутскай”
  • Yiddish: “אירקוצק”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊爾庫茨克”

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