Tourists visit the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum in Irkutsk, Russia, on April 28, 2026. (Xinhua/Hao Jianwei) Students visit the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum in Irkutsk, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Irkutsk Oblast of Siberia due to a malfunction, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Aug. 15.

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. IRKUTSK, Russia — Today, this frigid city of just over half a million in eastern Siberia is best known for being a ...

The death toll from dozens of people drinking bath lotion rose to 74, Russian authorities said on December 23, as police said they had seized more than 10,000 bottles of the berry-scented lotion in a ...

Russian settlements existed in the Irkutsk area from the early part of the 17th century. In 1661, a log fort was eventually constructed at the confluence of the Angara and Irkut Rivers. The original ...

Authorities in the southeastern Siberian region of Irkutsk have evacuated more than 1,000 people because of heavy rain. In a July 29 statement, the regional branch of the Emergencies Ministry said ...