- Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal, Russian Ozero Baykal, Lake, southern Siberia, Russia, in Asia.
- This is Russia’s Lake Baikal — the world’s oldest and deepest lake — situated in southeast Siberia, near the border with Mongolia.
- Lake Baikal’s is 600-kilometers in length and is an ecosystem of its own. In 1996 UNESCO recognised it as a world heritage site.
- We've traveled to Baikal lake several times and here's our guides to the best popular and hidden destinations there.
- Most of the living creatures that live in the waters of Lake Baikal are found nowhere else on Earth – the lake is home to more than 1750 endemic species.
- With depths of more than a mile, the 25-million-year-old Lake Baikal is the most voluminous freshwater lake on the planet — and it’s home to a variety of...
- The lake is deep enough to stand five Eiffel Towers (each 324 metres/1,063 feet) on top of one another. Lake Baikal changes its face every season.
- Lake Baikal sits in Southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk.
- On the square Lake Baikal this deepest lake is equal to Belgium in the world whose bottom is on more than 1600 kilometers under thickness of water.
- Lake Baikal - the largest lake, the deepest lake, the clearest lake!