- The Baikal Museum, for example, offers a virtual dive down to Lake Baikal’s depths, while the open-air Architectural and Ethnographic Museum Taltsy (20km from...
- In it there are numerous endemic species such as the seal and the Baikal sturgeon, the golomjanka fish and the epishura crab (a tiny animal whose role is...
- Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, as well as one of the clearest. ... 30 islands on Lake Baikal, the largest and most famous - Olkhon Island.
- The Baikal Lake. ... Olchon island is one of the largest lake islands in the world and is located not far from the southwestern coast of Lake Baikal.
- Listvyanka opens the gates to Baikal. The village stands where the Angara flows out of Baikal, and stretches along the Baikal shoreline for five km.
- The lake is completely surrounded by mountains, with the Baikal Mountains on the north shore and the taiga technically protected as a national park.
- Lake Baikal is located in Southern Siberia between Buryat Republic and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. The Lake Baikal is known as “Blue Eye of Siberia” containing...
- The body of water is also known as the 'Baikal Sea' and the 'Pearl of Siberia'. At 1642 meters (5390 ft) Lake Baikal is the deepest, and among the clearest lakes...
- The flora of Baikal includes marsh thistle and over 80 submerged macrophyte species. One of Baikal’s animal species is nerpha or Baikal seal.
- For the full article, see Lake Baikal. ... In 1996 the Lake Baikal Coastal Protection Zone was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.