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Listvyanka is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, situated seventy kilometres from Irkutsk, near the point where the Angara River leaves Lake Baikal. Population: 1,745 (2002 Census).Listvyanka is also the site of the Limnological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. The village is situated on the shore of Baikal in Listvenichny bay - the place where Angara river, the only outlet, flows out of Baikal.Lake Baikal can be visited in a one day trip by the highway from Irkutsk. The route runs through the taiga forest as far as Listvyanka village - a small Russian settlement on the shore of the lake - the best destination for the first acquaintance with Baikal.