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On August 15, 2024, a Tu-22 bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of Russia due to a technical malfunction. The aircraft was on a scheduled flight when it fell in an uninhabited area. All four ...
IRKUTSK, Russia -- A Siberian policeman who raped and killed women after offering them late-night rides was found guilty of dozens more murders on Monday, making him Russia's most prolific serial ...
MOSCOW. Aug 6 (Interfax) - Polyus Group , through its subsidiary Polyus Verninskoye, has won an auction for the gold-bearing Kuduskita area in the Bodaibo district of the Irkutsk region.
Irkutsk’s regional government said the victims had died of methanol poisoning after consuming the bath lotion. At a cabinet meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said authorities ...
More than 50 people and 10 pieces of equipment were deployed in search and rescue efforts, the ministry said. Irkutsk Oblast Gov. Igor Kobzev said that “the flight crew, technical staff and flight ...
IRKUTSK, Russia -- On March 7, 37-year-old Russian convict Yevgeny Rylsky died in a prison hospital in Irkutsk, to which he had been transferred a few days earlier from the notorious prison IK-15 ...
State of emergency around fuel-tanker crash site in Russia's Irkutsk region, governor says By Reuters June 12, 20237:15 PM PDTUpdated June 14, 2023 ...
Irkutsk only succumbed to the Bolshevik army in 1920, dooming its commerce. The Jews who were able to fled the city, and by 1923 most of the Jewish organizations, charities and clubs were closed.