It will likely take a while to get out from any destination in the north. From Krasnoyarsk, however, Irkutsk is the next major stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway to the east after Kansk; to the west after Achinsk are Tomsk on a branch line and Novosibirsk. Bratsk is also reachable to the east via the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
