Cheshskaya Pivovarnya

Irkutsk


You’ll smell this place before you see it as Irkutsk’s unpretentious microbrewery-pub creates its own Pilsner Urquell lager, pumping out a pungent hop aroma in the process.


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0.15 MILES

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2. Museum of City Life

0.16 MILES

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3. Trubetskoy House-Museum

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5. City History Museum

0.56 MILES

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6. Kazansky Church

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1.01 MILES

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