Нижнеудинское городское поселение

Built around a 17th-century Cossack settlement on the Uda River, Nizhneudinsk grew into a rail-connected district centre in western Irkutsk Oblast. The town lies on the Trans-Siberian Railway, part of the route linking European Russia with Siberia and the Pacific coast. Its name, meaning “Lower Uda”, distinguishes it from the former Verkhneudinsk, now Ulan-Ude. The Uda runs west from the Eastern Sayan foothills and joins the Biryusa to form the Taseyeva River. Nizhneudinsk remains shaped by railway life and its role as a service centre for the surrounding taiga country. Move on to other webcams in Irkutsk Oblast to compare river valleys, railway towns and Siberian settings around the Eastern Sayan.

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