Irkutsk, founded in the mid-seventeenth century as a trading outpost for the collection of tributes (paid in furs) by the Buriato-Mongolian tribes of the area, thus became one of the most ...

It was with this sense of reverence that I boarded the Korean Air charter bound for Irkutsk, in Russia's Buryat Autonomous Republic.The flight northwest took four hours. Despite the official one ...