Baikal State University is located in Irkutsk, a large administrative center in Eastern Siberia, with population of over 600,000. Only 60 km away from Irkutsk there is the world-famous lake Baikal listed among UNESCO’s world heritage sites.

Irkutsk is a multicultural city, which helps people of different nationalities fit in the local environment, and many non-residents feel like home here. Irkutsk citizens are friendly and tolerant, and demonstrate a true interest in cultures and ways of other peoples.

Choosing Irkutsk as the place of their academic residence, foreign students get a wonderful opportunity to travel and observe beautiful local sites, also get to know cultures and ways of other nations.

Irkutsk has a favorable geographical position and transport accessibility: direct flights to/from Southeast Asia - China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Harbin, Manzhouli), Thailand (Bangkok, Phuket), Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar), Vietnam (Hanoi) and Central Asia - Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Fergana, Samarkand, Namangan), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Osh) and Kazakhstan (Astana, Shymkent) now available.