IRKUTSK

ĭrkootskˈ, city (1989 pop. 626,000), capital of Irkutsk region, S Siberian Russia, at the confluence of the Angara and Irkut rivers. It is an industrial center, a port, the site of a hydroelectric dam, and a major stop on the Trans-Siberian RR. Manufactures include aircraft, automobiles, machine tools, textiles, chemicals, food products, and metals. Founded as a Cossack fortress in 1654, Irkutsk became the capital of Eastern Siberia in 1822. It has been a place of exile since the 18th cent. Many of the Decembrists settled in Irkutsk after their imprisonment, and a few of their houses are now open as tourist sites. In the city are a university (founded 1918) and several agricultural, medical, and technical schools. The Irkutsk dam has raised the level of nearby Lake Baykal by 20 ft (6 m).

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Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia's Trade with China and Its Setting, 1727-1805
Book by Clifford M. Foust; University of North Carolina Press, 1969
Subjects: China--Commerce--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Commerce--China
...century the Fifth Revision, 1794-96 , Irkutsk guberniia , now separate from Nerchinsk...overshadowed. The cities and towns of the Irkutsk territory benefited most from the trade, led by Irkutsk itself, the key city. Irkutsk was founded...
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The North Korean Communist Leadership, 1945-1965: A Study of Factionalism and Political Consolidation
Book by Koon Woo Nam; University of Alabama Press, 1974
Subjects: Communism--Korea (North), Korea (North)--Politics And Government
...quarrels from the very beginning. The Irkutsk faction consisted of Soviet Koreans who...anti-Japanese struggle. Unlike the Irkutsk Faction, Yi Tonghwis Shanghai group was...ideological commitment appeared dubious to the Irkutsk Faction and to leaders of the Comintern...
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Studies in Siberian Ethnogenesis
Book by H. N. Michael; University of Toronto Press, 1962
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Siberia
...The Tsysolik are recorded mostly in the Irkutsk region and on the Kitoy river among the...On the right bank of the Angara in the Irkutsk authority of the 17th century, there...Bulagats and Ekherits who paid tribute in Irkutsk, maintaining that in past years these...
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Communism in Korea - Vol. 1
Book by Robert A. Scalapino, Chong-Sik Lee; University of CA Press, 1972
Subjects: Communism--Korea (North), Communism--Korea--History
...charges and countercharges. Meanwhile, the Irkutsk Party renewed its old attacks upon the...until May, and meanwhile men from the Irkutsk faction were busily recruiting delegates. 41 At last the conference opened -- in Irkutsk. By this time the Irkutsk faction, with...
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Universities of the World outside U.S.A
Book by M. M. Chambers; American Council on Education, 1950
Subjects: Education--Directories, Universities And Colleges
...Institute for the Timber Industry, ul. Volkova 85. Irkutsk Irkutsk A. A. Zhdanov State University, naberezhnaya Vusovskaya...Foreign-Language Faculty became a separate institute. Irkutsk Agricultural Institute, ul. Dzerzhinskovo 56. Irkutsk...
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Between Russian Reality and Chinese Dream: the Jesuit Mission in Serbia, 1812-1820
Journal article by Anna Peck; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 87, 2001
Subjects: Catholicism, China, History, Jesuits, Missionaries, Political power, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Siberia, Society of Jesus
...establishment of a forward position in Irkutsk, the Russian city situated close to the...travels through Siberia, from Tobolsk to Irkutsk, Kiakhta, and Kamchatka. After his...Russian Jesuits, with the base in Siberian Irkutsk. The designation of Jesuits to the Siberian...
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Late Holocene Subsistence Practices among Cis-Baikal Pastoralists, Siberia: Zooarchaeological Insights from Sagan-Zaba II
Journal article by Tatiana Nomokonova, Robert J. Losey, Andrzej Weber, Ol'Ga I. Goriunova, Aleksei G. Novikov; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 49, 2010
Subjects: Holocene Epoch--Research, Livestock--Research, Pastoral systems--Research
...collection built by the authors and housed at Irkutsk State University in Russia. Some additional...medieval cattle specimens provided to us by Irkutsk State Technological University. Following...collection of medieval cattle skeletons at Irkutsk State Technical University. REFERENCES...
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Psychoactive Substance Use among Young People: Core Findings of a Multi-center Study in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation
Journal article by Mwansa Nkowane, Lee Da Rocha Silva, Shekhar Saxena, Vladimir Poznyak, Eugenia Koshkina, Vladimir Rostovtsev, Tatiana Kalinina; Contemporary Drug Problems, Vol. 35, 2008
Subjects: Crime prevention, Data collection, Districts, Evidence, Families & family life, Gender differences, Intervention, Marijuana, Sample size, Site selection, World Health Organization, Young adults
...of Ivanovo Province - in the Moscow Region; and Irkutsk - the capital of Irkutsk Province - situated east of the Ural Mountains in...population of 70,800 and Partizanski 94,501; Irkutsk had a population of 589,683, Ivanovo 456,357...
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Homelessness and Criminal Exploitation of Russian Minors: Realities, Resources, and Legal Remedies
Journal article by Sally W. Stoecker; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 9, 2001
Subjects: Crime, Homeless people, International, Poverty, Russia, Social conditions & trends, Society, Vagrancy
...supporting her summer 2000 research trip to Irkutsk, Russia, where the findings for this...trafficking schemes. Shelter directors in Irkutsk revealed that fifteen young Russian girls...between mid-May and mid-October 2000 in Irkutsk oblast by the KDN and agencies for the...
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Entrepreneurial Dispositions and Goal Orientations: A Comparative Exploration of United States and Russian Entrepreneurs *
Journal article by Wayne H. Stewart Jr., Joann C. Carland, James W. Carland, Warren E. Watson, Robert Sweo; Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 41, 2003
Subjects: Businesspeople, Entrepreneurship--Analysis, Entrepreneurship--Planning, Entrepreneurship--Technique
...the Siberian American Department of Management in Irkutsk, Russia, participated in data collection. In both...from central Siberia, with the majority from the Irkutsk region. Irkutsk is a city of 700,000 people, located in the center...
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In Conversation
Magazine article by Natalie Hoare; Geographical, Vol. 80, June 2008
Subjects: Environmental activists--Works, Environmentalists--Works, Rikhvanova, Marina--Works
...of Lake Baikal? I was born and bred in Irkutsk one of Siberias largest cities, located...a keen interest in nature. I went to Irkutsk University, where I studied biology and...worked at the Limnological Institute in Irkutsk limnology is the study of bodies of fresh...
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Skimming Siberia's Sacred Sea
Magazine article by Sharon Hudgins; World and I, Vol. 13, July 1998
Subjects: Lake Baikal--Description and travel, Siberia--Description and travel
...the raketa (rocket boat) landing in Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia, forty...A group of university colleagues from Irkutsk had organized an excursion to the southwestern...that the mercury reached 90 degrees F in Irkutsk that day, the warmest so far that year...
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China's 'Takeover' of Russia's Far East
Magazine article by Alexandr V. Nemets, John L. Scherer; World and I, Vol. 19, February 2004
Subjects: China--Imports, China--International economic relations, Chinese, Chinese (Asian people), Demographic transition, Russian Far East--Demographic aspects, Russian Far East--Emigration and immigration, Russian Far East--Natural resources
...Siberia presently includes the Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and Chita regions, and the Tuva (Tyva...and live and work in the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk territories. The Pacific region of Siberia...the northern part of the East Siberian Irkutsk region, to northeast China, then on...
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The Sick Man of Asia: Russia's Endangered Far East
Magazine article by Rajan Menon; The National Interest, Fall 2003
Subjects: Putin, Vladimir, Russia--Analysis
...Manchuria, linking the Russian city of Irkutsk south of Lake Baikal and the Pacific port...2,400 kilometers from Angarsk (near Irkutsk) to Daqing in China. It will transport...entirely through Russias territory from Irkutsk to the Pacific port of Nakhodka and enabled...
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Fighting in a Fortified Village: in the Second Chechen War
Magazine article by Adam Geibel; Infantry, Vol. 89, September 1999
Subjects: Armed forces, Army-Russia, Chechnya Russia, Civil war, Military engagements, Military strategy, Russia, Towns
...one of these firefights, the 22-man Irkutsk SOBR lost Lieutenant Vladimir Idashin...incident from a case of fratricide. The Irkutsk SOBR had just taken a small hill after...under fire from a lone Russian tank. The Irkutsk unit had radioed that the Chechens had...
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Slow Train to China
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), May 6, 2007
...Baikal Express. Running from Moscow to Irkutsk, in the heart of Siberia, it would take...travelling the route, hopping off at Irkutsk and Ulaan Baatar. My holiday had begun...grander stations along the route. At Irkutsk, however, it was time to say goodbye...
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A Slow Train toChina
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), March 25, 2007
...Baikal Express. Running from Moscow to Irkutsk, in the heart of Siberia, it would take...travelling the route, hopping off at Irkutsk and Ulaan Baatar. My holiday had begun...grander stations along the route. At Irkutsk it was time to say goodbye to my Russian...
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Ice Road Bikers
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 4, 2010
...the frozen river connecting the city of Irkutsk to Lake Baikal - on which Pike had easily...sparked by experiences he had living in Irkutsk while studying Russian and volunteering...the snow. On the 36th day after leaving Irkutsk, the cyclists posted notice on their...
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To the World's End; Vladivostok or Bust: A Ticket to Ride 5,000 Miles Long, Built at the Cost of Hundreds of Lives . . . and Now a Byword for Luxury. Christopher Hudson Took Aride on the Trans-Siberian Railway
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 21, 2004
...bleak steppes to Novosibirsk, and on to Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Once known as the Paris of Siberia, Irkutsk represents the last embers of European...In the early evening, after touring Irkutsk and its astonishing Sunday market, we...
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Monster That Brought Death Down from Sky; Grim Aftermath of Jet Crash into Flats
Newspaper article by Gerard Couzens; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 8, 1997
...people. Rescuers in the Siberian city of Irkutsk were still digging bodies from the charred...fighter jets from a factory airport in Irkutsk to the eastern city of Vladivostok. The...The worst of the crashes was also in Irkutsk, where 124 people died in 1994. Shocked...
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Irkutsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IRKUTSK irkootsk , city (1989 pop. 626,000), capital of Irkutsk region, S Siberian Russia, at the confluence of the...and metals. Founded as a Cossack fortress in 1654, Irkutsk became the capital of Eastern Siberia in 1822. It has...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk regions. Lying off Siberia in the Arctic...important cities include Krasnoyarsk , Irkutsk , Ulan-Ude , Cheremkhovo, Yakutsk...power stations on the Angara River between Irkutsk and Lake Baykal. Forestry, like mining...
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Angara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...end of Lake Baykal, it flows north past Irkutsk and Bratsk, then turns west after receiving...Tunguska ). The Angara is navigable between Irkutsk and Bratsk; below Bratsk there are many...a smaller hydroelectric station is at Irkutsk. Two other dams span the river, making...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mountains, and river basins, the major cities Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, and Chita are located along the Trans-Siberian...There are hydroelectric stations at Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk. Coal, gold, graphite, iron ore, aluminum ore, zinc...
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Ust-Ordyn-Buryat Autonomous Area
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...000 sq mi (24,000 sq km), S Siberian Russia, in the Irkutsk region. Formed in 1937, it stretched from the Baykal Mts...area in 1977. In 2008 the autonomous area was merged into the Irkutsk region. ____________________ Copyright...
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