The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...

Lake Baikal is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in light of its fauna and flora. The lakeshore offers some of the most beautiful vistas in Russia. The Trans-Siberian train route runs along ...

TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has still not frozen over amid a relatively warm winter, according to images taken by the Russian meteorological satellite Meteor-M.

TASS/. UNESCO insists on establishment by Russia of an ecological monitoring system for Lake Baikal and demands information regarding the future use of the industrial area of the former Baikal ...

J. Hall, Andrey Ya. Suknev Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 3 (2016), pp. 1001-1014 (14 pages) Observations of giant ice rings on Lake Baikal (Russia) have recently sparked scientific and ...

Mountains rise to the south, thrown up by the same tectonic plate movements that split the earth, giving rise to Lake Baikal. And then all of a sudden you see a great expanse of grey water opening ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1383-1392 (10 pages) Lake Baikal, Siberia, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake on Earth. However, despite decades of painstaking limnological ...

The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...

the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of ...