- The trip starts at the Slyudyanka I station and ends at the Baikal main station. The simplest way to reach Slyudyanka is by electric train from Irkutsk...
- View of the Turka River on its mouth before joining the Baikal Lake. By Iñaki LLM. Wikimedia Commons. Top 10 Facts about Lake Baikal, Russia.
- At 47 km of the Baikal tract, there is a museum of local architecture, which is considered one of the best in the country.
- The largest part of the Baikal area is populated by Buryats, an aboriginal Asian people, who came to Central Asia around two thousand years ago.
- The island is a part of Pribaikalsky National Park of Nature and located in the centre of the Baikal close to its deepest point.
- Lake Baikal is home to more than 2,000 species of plants and animals, two-thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world, including the Baikal omul fish...
- The Baikal seal is one of more than 2,000 known animals that are endemic (unique) to Lake Baikal in...
- Irkutsk, the unofficial capital of the Baikal region, is both a modern city and excellent introduction to Siberia's past.
- There are estimated to be over 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals to be found here including the Baikal freshwater seal.
- Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart.