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IRKUTSK REGION
  • 2 344 360
    Population
  • 774,8 km²
    Area
  • 138
    Nations
LAKE BAIKAL
  • 80%
    fresh water reserve
  • 31 500 km²
    lake area
  • 1 642 м
    depth of
  • 25 mio years
    age
  • 1 455 species
    of endemics
  • 3,1 mio
    tourists in 2023
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INDUSTRY
  • 38%
    aluminum
  • 28%
    polyvinyl chloride
  • 26%
    cellulose
  • 7%
    electricity
INDUSTRY
  • 38%
    aluminum
  • 28%
    polyvinyl chloride
  • 26%
    cellulose
  • 7%
    electricity
  • Ore gold
    - the region ranks first in the country in terms of ore gold reserves (2,350 tons)
  • Angarsk Cascade Hydroelectric Power Station
    - the largest complex of hydraulic power plants in Russia
  • Angarsk Petrochemical Company
    - the largest enterprise in Eastern Siberia for refining and production of petroleum products
  • Irkutsk Polymer Factory
    - the first factory in Eastern Siberia to produce polymers from ethane
  • Irkutsk Aircraft Factory
    - Russian aircraft manufacturer
  • МС-21
    - Russian medium-range narrow-body passenger airplane
  • Irkutsk Oil Company
    - Russian Oil Company, one of the largest independent oil producers in Russia
  • Ust-Ilimsk Pulp and Paperboard factory
    - one of the largest and most technologically advanced pulp and paper factorys in the world
SEE FOR YOURSELF
Tourism
To fulfill the dream of visiting a unique lake, which attracts people from all corners of the planet. There is no season for traveling in Baikal.
Culture
Take an incredible journey through time from St. Innocent's ancestral home in Anga to the Russian Opera Festival in the Ilimsky Ostrog at the source of the Angara River and the magnificent festival of contemporaries "Stars on Baikal".
Young people
Sport
Ride on the largest live ice rink in the world.
Learn to build ecotrails.
Gain new knowledge, skills and abilities at the Baikal Forum.
Economy
See with your own eyes the cascades of hydroelectric power station, the most modern industrial technologies in aircraft construction, oil production and gas chemistry, metallurgy, wood processing.
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