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Circumbaikal Highway
The Circumbaikal Highway (Around Baikal Highway, Round Baikal Highway, russian: Кругобайкальский тракт, Krugabaikalsky Trakt) was part of the Main Siberian Postal Highway (главный сибирский почтовый тракт). It started from Irkutsk, went along the Irkut River, further southwards around Lake Baikal (hence the name) to the village of Kultushnoye (now Kultuk). At Kultushnoye the road turned south and went into Mongolia. The initial run of the road (up to Kutlushnoye, 93 verst (~99 km)) was constructed during 1796-1801. In 1803 it was decided to modernize and extend the road. The extension from Kutlushnoye to Posolsky Monastery was started in 1867.Circumbaikal Highway The latter stretch is associated with the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Siberian Postal Highway
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, 25th-largest city in Russia by population, the fifth-largest in the Siberian Federal District, and one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, cities in Siberia. Located in the south of the eponymous oblast, the city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei River, Yenisei, about 850 kilometres (530 mi) to the south-east of Krasnoyarsk and about 520 kilometres (320 mi) north of Ulaanbaatar. The Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. Many distinguished Russians were sent into exile in Irkutsk for their part in the Decembrist revolt of 1825, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irkut River
The Irkut (russian: Ирку́т; Buryat and mn, Эрхүү гол, ''Erhüü go''l) is a river in the Buryat Republic and Irkutsk Oblast of Russia. It is a left tributary of the Angara. It flows out of lake Ilchir which is situated 50 km away from the highest peak of the Eastern Sayan Mountains, Munku-Sardyk. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Irkut freezes up in late October or mid-November and stays icebound until late April or early May. The city of Irkutsk is located at the mouth of the Irkut on the Angara. Image:Irkut1.jpg, Irkut near the village of Zaktuy in the Tunkinsky National Park The Tunka or Tunkinsky National Park (Russian: Тункинский) is a national park located in south central Siberia. It covers a mountainous region centered on the Irkut River valley (also referred to as the Tunka Valley) that continues from ... Image:Irkut river from train.jpg, The Irkut as seen from a train window (near its confluence with the Angara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. With of water, Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water, more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. It is also the world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of , and the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. At —slightly larger than Belgium—Lake Baikal is the world's seventh-largest lake by surface area. It is among the world's clearest lakes. Lake Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of them endemic to the region. It is also home to Buryat tribes, who raise goats, camels, cattle, sheep, and horses on the eastern side of the lake, where the mean temperature var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kultuk, Slyudyansky District, Irkutsk Oblast
Kultuk (russian: Култук) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the southwestern tip of Lake Baikal Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Repu .... Population: The community is the site of a Chinese-owned water bottling factory under construction as of 2019. History It was established in 1647. References Urban-type settlements in Irkutsk Oblast 1647 establishments in Russia Populated places on Lake Baikal {{IrkutskOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign nation. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea, and much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country's population. The territory of modern-day Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the First Turkic Khaganate, and others. In 1206, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous land empire in history. His grandson Kublai Khan conquered China proper and established the Yuan dynasty. After the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verst
A verst (russian: верста, ) is an obsolete Russian unit of length defined as 500 sazhen. This makes a verst equal to . Plurals and variants In the English language, ''verst'' is singular with the normal plural ''versts''. In Russian, the nominative singular is , but the form usually used with numbers is the genitive plural – 10 verst, 25 verst, etc. – whence the English form. A (russian: межевая верста, literally 'border verst') is twice as long as a verst. "The verst of the 17th century was 700 sazhens or 1.49 km as against the 500 sazhens or 1.067 km it became at the time of Peter the Great." Finnish ''virsta'' In Finland, a was originally 1,068.84 m according to the Swedish standard, but the Russian verst of 1,066.8 m replaced it after the province was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1809. A was originally 600 (fathoms, 1.781 m), but was then changed to 500 , since the Russian was longer, 2.134 m. A Finnish was defined as of a , the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uprising Of Polish Political Exiles In Siberia
The Baikal Insurrection ( pl, Powstanie zabajkalskie or ''Powstanie nad Bajkałem'', russian: Кругобайкальское восстание), also known as the Siberian Uprising, was a short-lived uprising of about 700 Polish political prisoners and exiles ('' Sybiracy'') in Siberia, Russian Empire, that started on 24 June 1866 and lasted for a few days, until their defeat on 28 June. Background After the failure of the January Uprising in Poland in 1863–1864, the Russian empire exiled many of the Poles involved to Siberia. The insurgents had brief contacts with Siberian nationalists, who hoped for a general Siberian uprising and the establishment of the republic of Svobodoslaviya (Свободославия). They also had contact with Nikolai Serno-Solovyevich; another group supporting the insurgents was the Zemlya i Volya with activists such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Aleksandr Herzen. The Poles and the Russians planned a major uprising under Chernyshevsky and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baikal Highway
The Baikal Highway is a Russian federal highway, federal highway in Russia. Its official designation is federal highway R258 "Baikal" (russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога Р258 «Байкал»). It part of the Trans-Siberian Highway and of the AH6 (highway), AH6 route of the Asian Highway Network. It is named after the Russian Lake Baikal. The road has 296 bridges and no tunnels. There are no toll segments on the highway. Gallery Р258 «Байка́л» 1.jpg Трасса Байкал Мандрик1.JPG Трасса "Байкал".Красноярск - Иркутск.Район Тайшета.jpg, Krasnoyarsk–Irkutsk section of R258 highway before the reconstruction near Taishet, 2007. See also *Circumbaikal Highway References M51 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
