Irkutsk is a city in today’s Siberia, Russia, adjacent to lake Baikal. It’s name on old maps of the 1600s is Irkut (Ir-kut is ancient German for “Ray of God”, but according to mainstream sources, Irkut means “spinning”).
Over 150 years ago maps called Siberia “Grand Tartary”. Irkutsk was part of the Tartarian Empire – you know, the one erased from public memory. Mainstream History knows nothing, says nothing, remembers nothing about Tartary. Instead they say that “Cossacks” founded Ir-Kut-sk as a wooden fort in 1661.
In no other place is a “mud flood” more apparent, with many houses partially submerged. I was genuinely surprised to find no remarks on this by mainstream Historians. Are we meant to think this is just the way houses were built?
Anyone telling you this is normal is being dishonest.
There was an earth-slide disaster that buried these houses. Even my amateur eyes can see that this was in the not so distant past. By the look of the houses maybe around 120 to 170 years ago. If official sources say nothing about a worldwide mud-flood in the 17 and 1800s, why should I believe anything they say about History?
But if this disaster really happened recently, why don’t locals remember?
In 1908 we have the mysterious Tunguska explosion which flattened vast areas of Siberia. Official sources claim Irkutsk was not affected.
There is actually a town called Tunguska very near Irkutsk.
Zooming in on it on Google Earth I discover the town is buried under ice.
I tried Google Maps car navigation from Irkutsk to this town, but no route is given because it doesn’t appear to exist above ground.
But the experts say that the infamous Tunguska blast site is hundreds of Kilometers further north (the Tunguska region spans hundreds of kilometers), which is why it didn’t affect Irkutsk.
And then there was “the great fire of Irkutsk”. A painting of it:
Historians say the 1897 fire destroyed the “entire” historical center of the city and whatever “was left of it” was demolished “at the end of the century” (according to several History sites).
Remind you of anything? Yes, hundreds of other cities around the world that experienced mysterious fires in the late 1800s. And then demolitions of buildings including those unaffected by fire.
Consider the worldwide thousands of great fires of the late 1800s, not as isolated incidents but as warfare, as reset, as using weapons of mass destruction. And the demolition-work as part of that warfare.
Irkutsk 1700s. The only drawing of the entire city I found. Why would there be only one drawing of a city that was already fairly well developed at the time? This drawing does not match up with popular ideas about Irkutsk being a small fort or barren outpost.
Even with fire and demolition some of the old magnificence of Tartarian Irkutks survived. See with your own eyes that Irkutsk was not only some “sparsely populated Russian trade outpost” in the 1700 and 1800s, as official sources falsely claim.
Some close-up shots of potential “antiquitech”:
Again the unpaved streets. As with other cities: How were buildings, stones, wood, fixtures, chandeliers and steel hauled to the site without paved streets? Why didn’t they start with paved streets? The mud-streets make it look like the city was dug up instead of built by these horse-carriage-riding people.
In U.S. school I wasn’t told much about Russian History, much less Siberian – except that the Siberian people were a loose group of wandering nomads, existing for thousands of years in a hunter-gatherer state with zero development.
Let’s contrast what you’ve seen with your own eyes to what officialdom says. The wikipedia page on Irkutsk says this:
Many distinguished Russians were sent into exile in Irkutsk for their part in the Decembrist revolt of 1825, and the city became an exile-post for the rest of the century. Some historic wooden houses still survive. When the railway reached Irkutsk, it had earned the nickname of “The Paris of Siberia.” The city was the center of bitter fighting in the Russian Civil War of 1918–20. Afterward, in the Soviet period, its architecture was dominated by the mandatory squared-up style.
Just like everywhere else we read of civil wars in the 1800s. But the page makes no mention of who built the beautiful buildings, when they were built or any major mud slide. All we know is that after the Communists took over, they outlawed building nice things, lest nice stuff made anyone feel unequal.
In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye (winter quarters) near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for collecting fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov built an ostrog (a small fort) nearby. The ostrog gained official town rights from the government in 1686.
We hear the same cover-stories about Tartarian America regarding “fur trade” but not much else happening in the 1600s.
The Irkutsk prison, founded in 1661 as an outpost for the advancement of Russian explorers in the Angara region, soon ceased to be only a defensive structure due to the advantage of its geographical position. According to historical documents, 10 years later, in 1671, here, in addition to servicemen and yasak people, lived “plowed peasants with their wives and children.”
Same propaganda as elsewhere. The natives were hapless peasants, nothing more.
A posad appeared, which gave rise to residential quarters of the future city. As for the prison itself, as its influence in the region grew, it was completely rebuilt twice (in 1669 and 1693), expanding in size.
Strange that prisons are mentioned in Siberia as far back as the 1600s. Later Siberia became the site of most of the “Gulag” prisons. Apparently any surviving Tartarian who rebelled against the new overlords was locked in a labor-camp.
I asked Grok AI about maps of Grand Tartary pre-1800s. AI told me that these maps are “made up” and “mostly fictional” because Siberia was not well known in those times. This statement, lifted from history-websites, contrasts sharply with this piece of information, from the Wikipedia article:
The first road connection between Moscow and Irkutsk, the Siberian Route, was built in 1760, and benefited the town economy. Many new products, often imported from China via Kyakhta, became widely available in Irkutsk for the first time, including gold, diamonds, fur, wood, silk, and tea. In 1821, as part of the Mikhail Speransky’s reforms, Siberia was administratively divided at the Yenisei River. Irkutsk became the seat of the Governor-General of East Siberia.
On the one hand they didn’t know much about Siberia and maps are made up, on the other hand the Siberian Route connects to the famous “Silk Road” which saw travelers for thousands of years!
In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers, and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and they developed much of the city’s cultural heritage. They had wooden houses built that were adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations. Many still survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.
Here I’m told that exiles built wooden houses in the 1800s but still no word on who built the grand architecture.
In 1879, on July 4 and 6, a fire burned out of control, destroying the palace of the Governor General, and the principal administrative and municipal offices. Many of the other public buildings, including the government archives, the library, and the museum of the Siberian section of the Russian Geographical Society, were completely ruined. Three-quarters of the city was destroyed, including approximately 4,000 houses. The city quickly rebounded, installing electricity in 1896. The first theater was built in 1897 and a major train station opened in 1898. The first train arrived in Irkutsk on August 16 of that year. By 1900, the city had earned the nickname of “The Paris of Siberia.”
And there we have it. Like other cities, the whole thing was built “around” the end of the 1800s. I guess they didn’t bother building paved roads to haul in all the rocks, woodwork, chandeliers, fixtures, etc. Some of the photos above are from before 1879 – they were already there before Irkutsk was allegedly built! And once again, designs and construction photos are suspiciously absent.
During the Russian Civil War, which broke out after the October Revolution, Irkutsk became the site of many furious, bloody clashes between the “White movement” and the “Bolsheviks”, known as the “Reds”. In 1920, Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed in Irkutsk. This effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance.
The bolsheviks renamed streets, towns, redrew maps, removed and replaced signs and even burned history books, so it’s difficult to determine what really happened here. They did the same throughout the world, in other countries it wasn’t the communists but some other “ism” that erased History.
The Irkutsk Region KGB estimated that 15-17,000 victims of the Great Terror were buried on the city outskirts but only after 1989 was the burial area explored and the city authorities declared it to be a memorial cemetery.
“The Great Terror” was the genocidal mass execution of locals by Stalinist gangs in the year of 1937. That then, completed whatever was left of the old world.
Further down the page we read this:
The center of the historical part of the city is Kirov Square. In that place on July 6, 1661, Yakov Pokhabov laid a prison for collecting Yasak, a tax collected from the local population with fur. The architectural appearance of present-day Irkutsk has been born since the days of the wooden prison. The historic center of the city is now in its place. By the beginning of the 18th century, it had turned into a wooden fortress, which protected the inhabitants from the raids of nomads. A major fire of 1716 almost completely destroyed the fortifications, but in just a year new ones were built, already made of stone.
Of the buildings on the territory of the Irkutsk Kremlin of that time, the Savior Church has survived, the stone building of which was laid in 1706 in the north-western corner of the fort. Along with the Epiphany Cathedral, erected behind the eastern wall of the fortress and also preserved to this day, this is one of the oldest stone buildings in Siberia. The protective palisade and the moat, which once defended the Irkutsk fortress from the south, from the Angara bank to the Ushakovka River, existed until the middle of the 18th century.
This is the only admission of one grand building having been built in 1706, at a time the whole of Irkut was supposed to have been a wooden fortress.
A mainstream Irkutsk historical website in Russian language admits to the lack of documentation, to my surprise. I quote:
“In history, there are facts that will always remain legends, for they cannot be confirmed by archival documents and the main argument of their evidence can only be the logic of the historical process.
…
This is the case with the original history of the founding of the Irkutsk prison. At one time A.N. Kopylov very convincingly proved that the archival documents of the XVII century in the RGADA funds firmly speak only about the construction of the Irkutsk Ostrog in 1661; there can be no question of any earlier dates of the founding of Irkutsk in the light of these documents.1.
However, almost all the lists of Irkutsk chronicles, without “conspiring”, unanimously claim that the first Irkutsk prison was cut down at the mouth of Irkut on the Arabian island in the early 1650s. They differ only in particular: some as a pioneer are called the Yenisei centurion P. Beketova, other Yenisei son of the boyar I. Pokubova.
Did you catch that? Irkutsk was supposed to have been founded in 1661 with the building of the first prison and fort. But there are documents referring to prisons there in the 1650s!
The first thing that makes you wary in these legends of the Irkutsk chronicles is the name of the island – Dyachy, Dyakov. If we consider that this is the very first and early acquaintance of the Russians with the mouth of the Irkutsk River, then why does this island have a purely Russified name, although most of the toponyms around Irkutsk, associated with the era of the first parish of the Russians here, are of Buryat origin? Consequently, it can be assumed that the events of the early 1650’s are already secondary in relation to the really first acquaintance of the Russians with this area. Such, it seems, the first real fact was in 1647. M. Pokhabov Buryat prince Narei, whose ulus was located in the middle course and to the mouth of the river Irkut.
It should be noted that since the early 1640’s, the Russian authorities had very accurate information about the western Baikal region.
Source: https://baikalvisa.ru/irkutsk/irk-history/
I won’t bore you with the rest of the article. This is enough to determine that the 1661 “founding” of the city is made up – fake history. And Grok AIs assertion that they didn’t know anything about the region is also a lie.
A map of the region, dated to 1700, hints at more than just wooden forts:
We see cathedrals and church steeples with large antenna-like poles and even what looks like Pyramids on the left of the map.
It has been claimed that sonar from the Mir submarine has detected artificial structures and pyramids underwater of lake Baikal (the lake adjacent to Irkutsk. Others claim there are pyramids below the ice in the area.
The area features many hills that are revered as burial mounds by the indigenous people (those who survived successive disasters). Many of these mounds resemble pyramids or could be buried ones.
So to recap, we have:
Civil War
Great Fire
Demolition
Genocide
It’s no wonder locals don’t remember their History! Yet we are told this and that happened, without a shred of documentation.