What is Slyudyanka?
{{Coord|51|40|N|103|42|E|region:RU_type:city|display=title}} [[File:Slyudyanka station.jpg|right|thumb|Slyudyanka railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway]] [[Image:Flag of Slyudyanskoe (Irkutsk oblast).png|thumb|150px|Flag]] [[Image:The coat of arms of the city of Slyudyanka.jpg|thumb|90px|Coat of arms]] '''Slyudyanka''' ({{lang-ru|Слюдянка}}), is a town in [[Irkutsk Oblast]], [[Russia]]. The town is located on the southern coast of [[Lake Baikal]]. It sits at the foot of the [[Khamar-Daban]] [[mountain ]]range. It is next to the [[confluence]] of the [[Slyudyanka River]] and Baikal. The town is divided into two parts by the [[Transsiberian Railway]]. Slyudyanka had a [[population]] of 19,242 in the 2002 [[census]]. In 2010. 18,542 people lived there. It is served by [[Slyudyanka-I]] and [[Slyudyanka-II]] [[railway ]]stations. [[The Circum-Baikal Railway]] starts from the Slyudyanka-II station. Slyudyanka was founded in 1647 by the Russian [[Cossacks]]. Because of its [[geography|geographical]] position, the city grew quickly and became a large [[transportation system|transit centre]] which connected [[Irkutsk, Russia|Irkutsk]] with [[China]] and [[Mongolia]]. The town became a railway hub in 1905, when [[construction|constructing]] of Transsiberian Railway had been finished. Also there is a [[marble]] deposit in the town. {{Commons category|Slyudyanka}}{{Irkutsk Oblast}}{{multistub|geo|Asia}} [[Category:Cities and towns in Irkutsk Oblast]]