Talk:Irkutsk
From Academic Kids
RISK anyone?
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Synagogue fire
I was sorry to read about the fire at Irkutsk's old synagogue.
I visited the city in 2001 and found it to be a pleasant surprise. Instead of the drab Soviet-era architecture that I had expected -- although there was a bit of that -- I found a city full of lovely Italianate buildings and traditional Siberian wooden houses.
By the way, there are some much better examples of those in Irkutsk than what we see in the photo. My pictures are all slides, but perhaps I can render a few into digital pix and post one or two.
I notice that I'm the first to post here if you don't count the guy who wants to play RISK. That's a shame. There is more to some of these places in Siberia than snow and gulags.
