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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)


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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