Irkutsk
Irkutsk is the capital of the Russian province of Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. The historic centre of Irkutsk is included on UNESCO's tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
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- Type: City with 606,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, in eastern Russia
- Also known as: “Erhuu”, “Erhüü”, “Ирку́тск”, “伊尔库次克”, and “伊爾庫斯克”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Irkutsk railway station and Irkutsk Regional Historic Memorial Decembrists‘ Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include 130 kvartal.
Irkutsk
- Categories: big city, city/town in Russia, and locality
- Location: Irkutsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, Eastern Siberia, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.2891° or 52° 17′ 21″ north
Longitude
104.2798° or 104° 16′ 47″ east
Population
606,000
Elevation
415 metres (1,362 feet)
Established
1661
IATA airport code
IKT
UN/LOCODE
RU IKT
Open location code
9P4677QH+JW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Irkutsk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Irkoetsk”
- Albanian: “Irkuck”
- Albanian: “Irkucku”
- Amharic: “ኢርኩትስክ”
- Arabic: “إركوتسك”
- Arabic: “إيركوتسك”
- Armenian: “Իրկուտսկ”
- Azerbaijani: “İrkutsk”
- Bashkir: “Иркутск”
- Basque: “Irkutsk”
- Belarusian: “Іркуцк”
- Bengali: “ইরকুটস্ক”
- Bengali: “ইর্কুতস্ক”
- Bosnian: “Irkutsk”
- Breton: “Irkoutsk”
- Bulgarian: “Иркутск”
- Catalan: “Irkutsk”
- Cebuano: “Irkutsk (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rusya)”
- Cebuano: “Irkutsk”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیرکوتسک”
- Chechen: “Иркутск”
- Chinese: “伊尔库茨克”
- 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”
- 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”
- Javanese: “Irkutsk”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Irkutsk”
- Ossetian: “Иркутск”
- Panjabi: “ਇਰਕੁਤਸਕ”
- Persian: “ایرکوتسک”
- Polish: “Irkuck”
- Portuguese: “Irkutsk”
- Pushto: “ارکوتسک”
- Romanian: “Irkuțk”
- Romanian: “Irkutsc”
- Romanian: “Irkutsk”
- Russia Buriat: “Эрхүү хото”
- Russia Buriat: “Эрхүү”
- Russian: “Иркутск”
- Scots: “Irkutsk”
- Serbian: “Иркутск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Irkutsk”
- Sicilian: “Irkutsk”
- Silesian: “Irkutsk”
- Sinhala: “ඉර්කුට්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Irkutsk”
- Slovenian: “Irkutsk”
- Somali: “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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