Bratsk () is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir.

Bratsk serves as the administrative center of Bratsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it.

Administratively, it is incorporated as the City of Bratsk — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Municipally, the City of Bratsk is incorporated as Bratsk Urban Okrug.

Bratsk is twinned with:

According to some survivor accounts, between Tayshet and Bratsk there is " a dead man under every sleeper.

The town is also connected by road to Bratsk.

JSC Aerobratsk (), also known as Airport Bratsk (), is an airline based in Bratsk, Russia, operating regional passenger services.

Its main base is Bratsk Airport, which it also runs.

In 1947, the Gulag Angara prison labor camp was constructed near Bratsk, with capacity for up to 44, 000 prisoners for projects such as the construction of the railway from Tayshet to Ust-Kut via Bratsk ( now the western section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline ).

* Bratsk Airport

In 1984 the regiment moved to Bratsk Airport.

* Bratsk ( Bratsk Airport )

Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka ( at ), the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast's cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk.

* Bratsk Dam, forming the Bratsk Reservoir.

Numerous old wooden buildings from villages in the Angara valley, which have been flooded after the construction of the Bratsk Dam and Ust-Ilimsk Dam, have been transported to the museum and reassembled there.

The city's rapid development commenced with the announcement in 1952 that a dam and hydroelectric plant would be built at Bratsk on the Angara River.

Town status was granted to Bratsk in 1955.

The 4, 500-megawatt Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station was built between 1954 and 1966, bringing numerous workers to the town.

Higher educational facilities include the Bratsk State University and a branch of the Irkutsk State University.

Bratsk was among the Blacksmith Institute's " Dirty Thirty ", the thirty most polluted places in the world.

Until recently, the Bratsk Reservoir — one of the world's largest — was a source of drinking water for many nearby cities.

Bratsk has been declared an ecological disaster zone.

The Bratsk Aluminum Plant has been polluting its surroundings to such great degree that Chikanovsky was evacuated in 2001 due to repeated health emergencies.

The two other major dams on the Irkutsk Oblast's section of the Angara are at Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk ; both forming large reservoirs.

" He participated in or led several groups to view solar eclipses, including a trip to the eclipse near Bratsk in Siberia in July 1981.

By 1652 the Khalkha khans were protesting the Russian incursions into Transbaikalia, and from 1666 on Khalkha raiding parties reached as far as Bratsk, Ilimsk, Yeravninsk, and Nerchinsk, while the khans besieged the forts on the Selenge.

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