Usolye-Sibirskoye

thumb|250px|St. Nicholas church in Usolie-Sibirskoie Usolye-Sibirskoye () is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Angara River. Population:

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Usolye-Sibirskoye
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Усолье-Сибирское
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Monument to Usoliie-Sibirskoie's 350th anniversary
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: top
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Usolie-sibirskoe-grrb.png
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Ussolie-Sibirskoye (Irkutsk oblast).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Irkutsk Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur: Town of Usolye-Sibirskoye
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of: Town of Usolye-Sibirskoye
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Town
Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur: Usolye-Sibirskoye Urban Okrug

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Administrative and municipal status
Economy and infrastructure
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thumb|250px|St. Nicholas church in Usolie-Sibirskoie Usolye-Sibirskoye () is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Angara River. Population:

==History== It was founded in 1669 under the name Usolye, an archaic Russian word for a salt producing town, by the Mikhalevs brothers, Cossacks who had discovered salt deposits in a nearby spring.