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Ilimsk () was a small town in Siberia, within today's of Russia. The town was flooded by the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir in the mid-1970s.

Ilimsk was founded in 1630 on the , a tributary of the , as Ilimsky Ostrog (i.e., "Fort Ilim"). From here a portage ran east to the which joins the at , thereby allowing travel from the basin to that of the . In early times the Ilimsk Uyezd was one of the few grain-producing areas in Siberia. Around 1700 there were 280 settlements, including seven ostrogs. In 1745 there were 7,605 peasants. Much of the grain was shipped down the Lena to feed the and other areas in eastern Siberia. Grain production shifted south as the area around Irkutsk became more settled. From 1764 to 1775 the town was the administrative center of a district ( okrug) and had population of around 700 by the end of the 19th century. Ilimsk in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Alexander Radishchev was exiled to Ilimsk between 1792 and 1796. His wife had died, and her sister joined Radishchev in Ilimsk, bringing his younger children with her. Radishchev later married her, while still in Ilimsk.

After the October Revolution of 1917, Ilimsk became a village ( selo). In the mid 1970s, after the construction of the () on the Angara at (below the fall of the Ilim into the Angara), the site of the village was flooded by the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir.

Before the site was flooded, archaeological excavations were carried out in the village during 1967–75; the Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan from the old ostrog (wooden fort) were taken apart and moved to the (), an open-air museum of traditional architecture near . In the early 2000s, an exact copy of another tower of the former Ilimsk ostrog and the southern wall of the fortress were built at the Taltsy site next to the buildings moved from Ilimsk, thus recreating a large portion of the historic fortified town within easy reach from Irkutsk. В "Тальцах" завершается реконструкция южной стены Илимского острога (Re-creation of the southern wall of the Ilimsk ostrog in the Taltsy Museum is approaching its completion)

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