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How many years to Irkutsk? Discussion about age of the Irkutsk jail Irkutsk celebrated the 361st birthday. It is known that the city originates from the moment of constructions the Irkutsk jail in 1661. Among the researchers studying history of the basis of the city, already many decades polemic about a place and exact date of emergence of the settlement proceeds. In sources and local history literature one of the earliest dates of basis Irkutsk belongs to the chronicle of the Irkutsk province made in 1812 by Losev Anton Ivanovich. We will provide reasonings of eminent scientists on history in our article...