Russia - Historical Center of Irkutsk

"Irkutsk - administrative center of Irkutsk region - is a subject of different kinds of study such as "city histoncal" whose history is more than three hundred years and the population is over 600 thousand inhabitants. Irkutsk is crossed by four rivers (Angara, Irkut, Ouchakovka Kaia) and located 66 km from Lake Baikal on the terrace of overlap that passes terrain. The territory that joins Irkutsk all landscape types are present: steppe, forest steppe, taiga, mountain taiga. The climate is very continental..." Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

Historical Irkutsk. Thanks to Yulia of Russia.