Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of south-central Russia near the southern end of Lake Baikal. It is an industrial center and a major stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
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- proper noun A city in
Siberia ,Russia , administrative centre of IrkutskOblast .
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Examples
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He began WPA operations in Irkutsk in Siberia in 1915 and conducted relief work until April 1916.
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He traveled on the Trans-Siberian Railway and arrived in Irkutsk on 23 December 1915.
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To Clay Cooper: I would not go to see Yakov Smirnov if he were appearing in Irkutsk or Petrapavlovsk.
My Range Bag 2008
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There aren't that many sort of facilities in the area, apart from the big city of Irkutsk, which is very much an isolated place in the middle of that vast area of Siberia.
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But let us assume that the railway has actually reached East Cape at a cost of, say, fifty millions sterling from Irkutsk, which is probably a low estimate.
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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My father and his parents were on the first train of deportees sent to Siberia, and they spent five years in the frozen labor camps between Kasnojarsk and Irkutsk.
My Long, Strange Journey to Afghanistan Vygaudas Usackas 2011
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Then, last summer, she went to meet his relatives in Irkutsk.
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"And it is interesting to note that if, indeed, a mammoth was filmed, it occurred in the Irkutsk region -- an area of intense paranormal activity."
Tusk, Tusk: Woolly Mammoth Video A Big, Hairy Hoax (VIDEO) Lee Speigel 2012
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The video's description says the "alien," which looks suspiciously like a "rubber doll," was found in the town of Irkutsk, not far from an alleged UFO sighting one month ago in Siberia.
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It is so far from anywhere that TNK-BP, a joint venture of BP PLC and a group of Soviet-born billionaires, runs operations via video link from an office in Irkutsk, some 600 miles away.
Russian Oil Frontier: Nowhere Land Guy Chazan 2011
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