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The street ends at one of the iconic places of Irkutsk – this is a military hospital complex, which appeared here in 1878 according to the project of M.N. Ogon-Doganovsky. During the construction of this structure in September 1871, two Polish exiles Y.D. Chersky and A.L. Chekanovsky opened the first Paleolithic site in Russia (the discovery was more than 30 thousand years old) with various items made of reindeer and mammoth bones, as well as many ceramics things. The history of Siberian archaeology began at this place.

Military hospital complex

Now we turn right and go down Kirenskaya Street to Wheat Valley. Along the street there are many old wooden houses, mostly from the beginning of the 20th century.

At the next crossroads let’s turn right again and find ourselves on a street named after Irkutsk writer P.P. Petrov. Further we will go left and down along Trubetskoy Street, which received its name in honour of the head of the Decembrist uprising, who lived here from 1845 to 1854 at the former country house of Irkutsk civil governor I.B. Zeidler. The son of S.P. Trubetskoy lived here upon leaving for Moscow in 1868, however, he sold it, and later it burned down in 1908. There is a small playground on the site of this estate today.

House of S.P. Trubetskoy

Nearby is the building of an industrial school built here in 1907 according to the plan of the famous Russian architect R.R. Marfeld. In 1908, the project of this building was awarded as one of the most interesting creations from Russian and foreign practice. Today it houses a technical school of mechanical engineering, which still bears the name of N.P. Trapeznikov, according to whose plan was opened in 1868 the first such institution in Irkutsk. Many famous athletes, such as the two-time Olympic champion in classical wrestling K.V. Vyrupaev and the silver medallist of the Olympic Games in athletics E.V. Bagryantseva and also Hero of the Soviet Union V. I. Davydov.

Technical school of mechanical engineering of N.P. Trapeznikov