Nizhneudinsk is a town in Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of Angara River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. Population: -History:...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Uda River (Yenisei's basin

Drainage basin

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), 508 kilometres (315.7 mi) northwest of Irkutsk

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...

. It stands on the Trans-Siberian Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

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, and is served by a small airport, ICAO code UINN. Population: 39,700 (1970).

It was founded in 1648 and granted town status in 1783. Nizhneudinsk was so named to distinguish it from Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...

).

Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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 is a native of Nizhneudinsk.

The 187th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment of the Siberian Military District

Siberian Military District

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is based in the town.