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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
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN
Leonid Iovich Gaidai
- Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film actor
Anatoly Alekseevich Ivanishin
- Russian test cosmonaut
Denis Leonidovich Matsuev
- Russian virtuoso pianist and social activist
Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin
- Russian Soviet and Russian writer and publicist
Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov
- Siberian novelist and playwright
Daria Andreevna Dmitrieva
- Russian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist
Sergey Viktorovich Chemezov
- Russian politician, economist
Hundred and thirtieth quarter
Specially created zone of historical building.
Taltsy
Museum of Architecture and Ethnography.
The Volkonsky estate
Irkutsk Regional Historical and Memorial Museum of the Decembrists.
Irkutsk Regional Musical Theater named after N.M. Zagursky
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
The Catholic Church in Irkutsk.
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
- 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.