Irkutsk

Built in 1899, it is one of the oldest surviving icebreakers in the world.

Babur is a fictional animal depicted on the coat of arms of Irkutsk.

An elegant neo-Renaissance building.

The museum tells the stories of the Decembrists.

This is the oldest museum in Siberia, founded at the end of the 18th century.

One of the brightest examples of pseudo-Russian Baroque in Eastern Siberia.

The monument to the emperor was laid in 1903 to commemorate the completion of the country’s main railway line — the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The arch was laid in 1811.

In the early 19th century, monks of the Catholic Bernardine order arrived in Irkutsk, thanks to whom the church appeared.