Irkutsk Region

Residents of the Irkutsk region are lucky to live on the shores of Lake Baikal, which is the deepest freshwater lake in the world. To visit the Irkutsk region means to reveal the shamans’ secrets on the Olkhon Island, to ride on the Circum-Baikal railway, to enjoy the wooden architecture of Irkutsk, to see the famous Baikal seal, and to try a delicious Baikal omul.

• The Circum-Baikal railway
• The Olkhon Island
• Shamanka Rock (Cape Burkhan)
• Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum
• The Irkutsk Nerpinary