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ID: 7011560 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011560			Record Type: administrative

Irkutsk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 18 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 52.3000 decimal degrees
Long: 104 15 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 104.2500 decimal degrees

Note: On Angara River; after fort built 1661, became major trade center to China & Mongolia; expanded with Trans-Siberian Railroad 1898; became capital of E Siberia in 1822; place of political exile since 18th cen.; besieged during Russian Civil War 1918-1921.

Names:

Irkutsk (preferred,C,V,O,English-P)

Irkutsk (Russian (transliterated)-P)

Irkoutsk (C,V)

אירקוצק (C,U,Hebrew )

Иркутск (C,U,Russian-P)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Russia (nation) (P)

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Irkutsk Oblast (oblast) (P)

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Irkutsk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded as a camp during first Russian colonization of area in 1652
city (C)
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
power production center (C)
cultural center (C)
educational center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:

אירקוצק..........	[IMJ]
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Иркутск..........	[VP]
.................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2916144

Irkoutsk..........	[VP]
.................	Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-77

Irkutsk..........	[BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 421
.................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 387
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2916144
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 90
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Subject: .....	[BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 421
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 387
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2916144
..................	Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-77
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 90
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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