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tini58de 2480 reviews
Irkutsk 1999

Favorite thing: Irkutsk is a wonderful town in my opinion! It is fun to walk along the old city center, to do some shopping or to discover the beautiful surrounding!

For some more information, here are some links:

- Wikipedia on Irkutsk
- www.Irkutsk.ru
- www.baikalhostels.com

Fondest memory: Always the first shower after three days on the train!

Updated Sep 3, 2006

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check out Youth Island and...
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kenarwoman 1 reviews

Favorite thing: check out Youth Island and stroll along Yuri Gagarin Boulevard. Not only does about 85% of the youth in the city go hang out there, but it's really beautiful. i would try to check out all the museums and theatres there, Dramaticheskii, Musikalnii, philarmonii etc, where you can hear some fabulous musicians and artists, and see some really nice internal architecture in the Dramaticheskii teatre.

Fondest memory: i actually miss the inexpensive ice cream that you can buy almost anywhere on the street in little stands. even when it's -20C outside, it was always great.

Written Aug 26, 2002

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Continental climate...
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Hotboy_san 47 reviews

Favorite thing: In Irkutsk sharply continental climate. In the winter very coldly, and it is very hot in the summer. A difference between day time and night temperature big enough. If in the summer day time temperature about +30 degrees at night it can be +5, 8.

Written Aug 26, 2002

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again just walk around, irkuts...
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suvaa003 172 reviews

Favorite thing: again just walk around, irkuts is a nice town and it feels 'rich'. Nicely dressed people and when we where there the weather was nice and we walked around and at at the summercafees.
Shops are nice as is the central market

Fondest memory: Sitting in the sun on Bulvar Gagarina nice vieuw of the river and a lot of space to sit and relaxe

Written Aug 24, 2002

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Well, with work keeping me...
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sexy_sensei 43 reviews

Favorite thing: Well, with work keeping me busy, it was hard to see anything more than the inside of the hotel and some 'business tour' locations that 'were determined ahead of time'. Either way, the best part my trip to Irkutsk was definitely Lake Baikal. A wonderful lake (and, for you Guiness Book of Records Fans -- the deepest lake in the world!), it is incredibly beautiful and undeveloped....there are some 'modern hotels' and accommodations but they are still only few -- Yea! for us. It is still very much 'family cottage territory' -- cottages dot the landscape and it brought back endless memories of summer's spent at my friends' cabins at the lake. Simply fabulous.....

Fondest memory: The people. Although I was a little 'put off' at first by the tough, macho, 'too direct and not friendly enough' comments and conversations that I received or was a party to, after a while, all of this blended away and I realized that it was just the exterior. And, as generalizing as it might sound, after having a few good, strong, straight glasses of 'Moskovoskya' (I think that's what it was called but, honestly, I was plastered!!) with the 'guys' and you were one of the group. I have never met such warm people (the vodka might have helped)....and it wasn't even winter yet!!

P.S. This ad has been copied from Funny-R-Stuff - May 1st, 2000.

Written Aug 24, 2002

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salisbury3933 803 reviews

Favorite thing: Irkutsk has some nice Churches. Here's a picture of a couple in the background.

Written Feb 2, 2006

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Wooden architecture
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salisbury3933 803 reviews

Favorite thing: I enjoyed the older wooden architecture that can be seen around the city.

Written Jan 2, 2006

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Great Monument
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Hotboy_san 47 reviews

Written Jan 30, 2004

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tanianska 221 reviews

Fondest memory: PESCHANAYA BAY (BUKHTA)

Written Aug 25, 2002

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go to the taditional oak...
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yunbyunghak 30 reviews

Favorite thing: go to the taditional oak house.when you are get to here you can feel the silence. you are going to forget the bad memory.

Fondest memory: mountains

Written Aug 25, 2002

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