Discover the best top things to do in Siberian District, Russia including Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Omsk Drama Theater, Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater, Human Puppet Theater, Theater Baikal, Bratsk Drama Theatre, Omsk State Theatre of Puppet, Actor, Mask Arlekin, Drama Lyceum Theatre, Ulger Puppet Theater, Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
Irkutsk Oblast (Russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. Population: 2,428,750 (2010 Census).
Founded in the mid-17th century as a winter quarters for traders and tax collectors, Irkutsk came to prominence in the 1800s. Participants in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I were exiled to Siberia in droves, turning Irkutsk into their cultural center. Today, it’s one of Siberia’s biggest and most important cities, with over half a million people, many universities, many historic churches and museums, and beautiful Lake Baikal, just about an hour away by train.
Discover the best top things to do in Siberian District, Russia including Stolby National Park, Human Puppet Theater, Lake Baikal, Enisey River, Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater, Novosibirsk Zoo, Shamanka Rock, Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, Datsan Rinpoche Bagsha.
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