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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...
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Recommissioned Russian submarine K-132 Irkutsk: A 21st-century underwater hunter or relic of the Cold War?
The Irkutsk, following the K-239 Belgorod submarine of Project 949A, has returned to service after a prolonged stay in the ...
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Idea of relocating Russia’s capital city to Irkutsk in Siberia not feasible — Kremlin
MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov believes that the idea of relocating Russia’s capital city from Moscow to Irkutsk in southeastern Siberia is simply not practicable.
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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
Irkutsk, founded in the mid-seventeenth century as a trading outpost for the collection of tributes (paid in furs) by the Buriato-Mongolian tribes of the area, thus became one of the most ...