Irkutsk

Irkutsk is a medium to large-sized city of 587,225 people in Russia. For twenty years up until the early 1800s, the Medvedev family called the small town of Irkutsk home. Back then it was very tiny, and the Medvedev home was the largest house for miles. Thinking the town was too small for the family's liking, they relocated to the riverfront city of Samara, which is far to the south and west of the city. However, they still maintained a snall home here.

Climate
Being a Siberian city, the city has very cold temperatures. Samara's warmer climate and closer distance to the rest of Russia's major cities made the larger city a better place for the Medvedev family than Irkutsk was.