Tayshet
Sign in to saveTayshet (, lit. cold river in the Kott language) is a town and the administrative center of Tayshetsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
Key facts
- Russian town.en_name
- Tayshet
- Russian town.ru_name
- Тайшет
- Russian town.image_skyline
- North Tayshet.JPG
- Russian town.image_caption
- Tayshet
- Russian town.map_label_position
- right
- Russian town.image_coa
- Coat of arms of tayshet.png
- Russian town.image_flag
- Flag of Tayshet.png
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Irkutsk Oblast
- Russian town.adm_district_jur
- Tayshetsky District
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of
- Tayshetsky District
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian town.mun_district_jur
- Tayshetsky Municipal District
- Russian town.urban_settlement_jur
- Tayshetskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of1
- Tayshetsky Municipal District
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of2
- Tayshetskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.leader_title
- Head
- Russian town.leader_name
- Alexander Zaika
- Russian town.pop_2010census
- 35485
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Tayshet (, lit. cold river in the Kott language) is a town and the administrative center of Tayshetsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
==History== It was founded in 1897 as a supply point and station on the Trans-Siberian Railway and was granted town status in 1938.