Air

There are two or three flights a day to Moscow (6 hours) and three a week to St. Petersburg (6,5 hours). Siberian connections include daily flights to Novosibirsk (2,5 hours), six flights a week to Bratsk (1 hour) and five to Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk. There are also flights to Petropavlovsk –Kamchatsky, Magadan and Yakutsk. International connections include weekly flights to/from Niigata in Japan and Shenyang in Korea.

Train

Irkutsk is 88 hours from Moscow by the daily express train A good choice is Baikal Express, which departs from Moscow’s Yaroslavl Station every other day.

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