Irkutsk

[ eer-kootsk ]

noun

1. a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, W of Lake Baikal.

Irkutsk

/ irˈkutsk /

noun

1. a city in S Russia; situated on the Trans-Siberian railway; university (1918); one of the largest industrial centres in Siberia, esp for heavy engineering. Pop: 587 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

That town is as far north as Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and the Siberian city of Irkutsk.

From Science News For Students

Matvey Volkov, a 16 year-old pole vaulter, left his hometown Irkutsk in Siberia for Minsk, Belarus last August, where he hopes he will be able to join the national team and compete internationally.

From Time

Shulman spent 30 years as the conductor of philharmonic orchestras in the cities of Lugansk in Ukraine, and in Kislovodsk and Irkutsk in Russia.

From Washington Post

Sukhoi Log, located in the isolated Irkutsk region of Siberia, was discovered by Soviet geologists in 1961 and studied in the 1970s.

From Fortune

In the past two decades, the activists organized eco-education for thousands of students in Irkutsk.

From The Daily Beast

On a recent night, Rikhvanova was making tea at her cozy office in the outskirts of Irkutsk.

From The Daily Beast

But then we got very lucky: We found the city directory of Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia.

From The Daily Beast

It would take this man some time to traverse the five thousand two hundred versts between Moscow and Irkutsk.

From Project Gutenberg

This podorojna was made out in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff, merchant, living at Irkutsk.

From Project Gutenberg

But his connection with some secret society having been asserted, he received orders to start for Irkutsk.

From Project Gutenberg

Nadia Fedor then asked, and easily obtained from the Russian government, an authorization to join her father at Irkutsk.

From Project Gutenberg

He haggled long about the price, for form's sake, to act up to his part as Nicholas Korpanoff, a plain merchant of Irkutsk.

From Project Gutenberg