Irbit
IRBIT, a town of Russia, in the government of Perm, no m. N.E. of Ekaterinburg, and on the Irbit river. Pop. (1860) 3408, (1897) 20,064. It is famous for a great fair, held since 1643, which lasts from the 1st of February to the 1st of March (O.S.), and at which are sold (to an average annual value of over 4,000,000) cottons, woollens, flax and hemp, silks, leather, metals, metallic and other manufactured goods, furs, hides, felt, raw wool and tea.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
