Cheremkhovo

Cheremkhovo, also spelled Čeremchovo, city, southwestern Irkutsk oblast (region), southern Siberia, Russia. It is situated on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of the city of Irkutsk.

Cheremkhovo was founded in 1772 as a station on the Great Siberian Post Road, and the town developed as a chief mining centre of the Cheremkhovo bituminous coalfield. In the 1960s, however, it began a steady decline because of limited reserves there and because of the availability of coal nearby at Tulun. Other industries include machine building and mica processing. Pop. (2010) 52,647; (2014 est.) 51,324.