None of the 139 people on board was hurt during the landing at the airport, where 124 out of 203 people on board an Airbus were killed when it crash landed on Sunday.
"The plane landed safely," the official said, adding that it touched down at 1:40 p.m. Moscow time (9:40 a.m. GMT).
Airport officials said the liner had had to circle over Irkutsk, 3,000 miles east of Moscow, for about three hours to use up fuel.
The Emergency Situations Ministry earlier said the Tu-154 liner was en route from Vladivostok in Russia's Far East to the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
"The liner headed from Irkutsk to Yekaterinburg at 10.42 a.m. Moscow time [6.42 a.m. GMT] and twenty minutes later the commander reported a tail engine failure," a ministry spokesman said, adding that the commander had decided to make an emergency landing in Irkutsk.
A Tu-154 liner crashed near Irkutsk in 2001 killing all 145 people on board.
The cause of the Airbus 310-300 crash Sunday has not been identified so far. Preliminary reports suggest a fault with the brake hydraulic system might have caused the airliner to veer off the runway upon landing and burst into flames after hitting a concrete wall.
The Airbus, owned by Novosibirsk-based S7, formerly Sibir airline, was making a routine flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, the home airport for popular tourist destination Lake Baikal.
President Vladimir Putin has declared July 10 a day of mourning for the A-310 victims.
Sunday's tragedy was the second Airbus crash in Russia since the start of 2006.
On May 3, an Armenian A-320 crashed in the Black Sea killing all 113 people on board.
And Russia's Transportation Ministry said Monday that an S7 airlines Airbus, which was flying from the Turkish resort of Antalya to Moscow with more than 250 people aboard, had made a forced landing in Russia's Black Sea resort of Simferopol.
The S7 press service said the liner had landed without any problems after the crew had detected a low level of engine oil during the charter flight.
