The article concerns the features and the meaning of the Coat of Arms of the Irkutsk Region.

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17. Correct – Kazvin, a city in the north of Iran.

18. Description of the Irkutsk region ruled by governor-general. 1988. P. 44.

19. The Trans-Baikal Region State Archive. F. 10. Inv. 8. P. 57 back of page.

20. Ibid. Inv. 21. P. 105 back of page. 147.

21. Grigoriy Karpovich Kotoshikhin (Koshikhin) – a scrivener of the Posolsk Desctrict. He wrote an assay on Russia ordered by the Swedish king, which was banned in Russia. In 1664 fled to Sweden.

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23. Pezhemskiy P. I., Krotov V. A. Chronicle of Irkutsk. P. 123.

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25. Ibid. P. 189.

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27. Ibid. 1882. P. 405.

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30. Cherkasov A. A. Ibid. P. 376–386.

31. The Irkutsk region territory ruled by governor-general with the center in Irkutsk included territories of the current Pribaikalskiy kray, the Trans-Baikal, the Extreme North and the Far East and consisted of 4 regions: Irkutsk, Nerchinsk, Yakutsk and Okhotsk.

32. Vinkler P. P. Ibid. P. XVII.

33. The Trans-Baikal Region State Archive. F. 272. Inv. 1. Doc. 10. P. 93.

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37. Boris VAsilievich Kene (1817–1886). Born in Berlin, Baron, Head of the Heraldry Department of coat of arms from 1857, employee of the Hermitage Museum, archaeologist, numismatist, herald.

38. Skalon V. N. Beavers of the North Asia. М.: Publishing house of the Moscow society of naturalists, 1951. P. 25.

39. "Collection of OSRK" // Belova O. V. Ibid. P. 64.

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41. Skalon V. N. Ibid. P. 25.