Irkutsk

Proper noun

Meaning

An oblast of Russia in Siberia.

A city, the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.

Examples

According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million. Source: Internet

Elsewhere, instructions were sent ahead to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Okhotsk to aid Bering's second expedition – and thus, the naivety of the first expedition in assuming compliance was repeated. Source: Internet

However, Lake Baikal has its effect, such that temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. Source: Internet

Bering and a small advance party left Tobolsk in later February, stopping at Irkutsk to pick up gifts for the native tribes they would later encounter; it arrived at Yakustsk in August 1734. Source: Internet

Also, the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Scientific and Technical Center has a branch in Irkutsk. Source: Internet

Epiphany Cathedral and central Irkutsk in 1865 By the end of the 19th century, there was one exiled man for every two locals. Source: Internet

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