Irkutsk: an essay on the culture of the place Authors Elena Bagina Ural Federal University named after B. N. Yeltsin Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2785 Published 2026-06-12 Issue No. 88 (2026): local cultures Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. How to Cite Bagina, E. (2026). Irkutsk: an essay on the culture of the place. Project Baikal, 23(88), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2785 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver AMA Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: Irkutsk, local culture, cultural interaction, passionaries, passionate impulse Abstract The local culture of Irkutsk developed in the context of the Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Buryat and, more broadly, European and Asian cultures. The influence of major personalities in the history of Irkutsk is greater than in central Russia, since not all aspects of life were determined by the central government. The city and its culture were formed as a result of several passionate impulses that occurred successively in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Yakov Pokhabov’s Cossacks, enterprising merchants, Old Believers, exiled Decembrists, the Polish “Sybiraks”, exiles of the 1930s, architects of the sixties initiated the phenomenon of passionate impulses, as a result of which Irkutsk received an impulse to development. References Abramov, N. (1858). Gorod Tyumen [The city of Tyumen]. Bulletin of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 22, 24. Bakhtin, M. M. (1975). Formy vremeni i khronotopa v romane: ocherki po istoricheskoi poetike [The forms of time and chronotope in the novel: essays on historical poetics]. In Questions of literature and aesthetics (pp. 234-407). Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura. Baraboshina, N. V., & Ilivitskaya, L. G. (2015). Diagnostika seti I khronotop [Diagnostics of the city and chronotope]. Postgraduate Bulletin of the Volga region, 15(7-8), 8-10. DOI: 10.17816/2072-2354.2015.0.7-8.8-10 Burlina, E. Ya., Ilivitskaya, L. G., & Baraboshina, N. V. (2017). “Key to the city”: chronotop and chronotyp. Proceedings of the Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social sciences, humanities, medical and biological sciences, 19(4), 65. Gornova, G. V., & Voronin, D. V. (2024). Retsenziya na monografiyu “Transformatsiya identichnosti v informatsionnom obshchestve: tsifrovye kochevniki [Review of the monograph “Identity transformation in the information society: digital nomads”]. Bulletin of Omsk State Pedagogical University. Humanitarian studies, 1(42), 24-28. Gutnov, A. E. (1985). Mir arkhitektury: Yazyk arkhitektury [The world of architecture: the language of architecture]. Moscow: Mol. Gvardiya. Ilivitskaya, L. G. (2021). The city and its co-existential chronotope: a diagnostic aspect. Verkhnevolzhsky Philological Bulletin, 1(24), 178-184. DOI: 10.20323/2499-9679-2021-1-24-178-184 Lotman, Yu. M. (1992). Semiotika prostranstva [Semiotics of space]. In Selected articles: in 3 volumes (Vol. 1: Articles on semiotics and typology of culture, pp. 386-471). Tallinn: Alexandra. Lynch, K. (1982). The image of the city (V. L. Glazychev, Trans.). Moscow: Stroyizdat. Nazarova, N. P. (2013). Arkhitekturnoe prostranstvo kak sotsiokulturnyi fenomen [Architectural space as a sociocultural phenomenon] [Doctor of Philosophy dissertation]. Volgograd. Semenova, V. (2016). Sakralnaya Tyumen: smyslovoe prostranstvo goroda kak nasledie [Sacred Tyumen: the semantic space of the city as heritage]. Lik: literary and local history almanac, (11), 5. Tyumen v XVII stoletii [Tyumen in the XVII century]. (1903). Moscow: Tipo-litogr. T-va I. N. Kushnerev and Co. Witsen, N. (1785). Severnaya i Vostochnaya Tatariya, vklyuchayushchaya opisanie razlichnykh tatarskikh i sosednikh oblastei v severnykh i vostochnyk chastyakh Azii i Evropy: v 2 t. [Northern and Eastern Tartary, including a description of various Tatar and neighboring regions in the northern and eastern parts of Asia and Europe: in 2 volumes]. Amsterdam: M. Schalekamp. Yarkov, A. (2016). Ot Tyumeni do Tyumeni: skolko ei let? [From Tyumen to Tyumen: how old is it?]. Lik: literary and local history almanac, (11), 12. Zavarikhin, S. P., & Zhuchenko, B. A. (2004). Arkhitektura Tyumeni [Architecture of Tyumen]. Tyumen: Raduga-T.