Nizhneudinsk
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About Nizhneudinsk
Nizhneudinsk is a city of 34,000 people (2018) in Irkutsk Oblaston the Uda River, a tributary of the Taseeva River. Nizhneudinsk is a stop on the Trans Siberian Railway, almost equidistant from Moscow and Vladivostok. The town boasts a small museum, a pretty church and a movie theatre. There are some caves and a waterfall a 20-km trek away.
Nizhneudinsk travel guide
Understand
Nizhneudinsk has long, severely cold winters and short, warm summers. Precipitation is quite low but is much higher in summer than at other times of the year.
Getting there
Nizhneudinsk sits 506 km northwest of Irkutsk.
1 Nizhneudinsk train station, at Alleynaya st. and Krasnoproletarskaya st.. at kilometre 4679 of the Trans-Siberian Railway (updated Feb 2026) 2 Nizhneudinsk regional airport. (updated Feb 2026)
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.