Irkutsk is also the door to spectacular Lake Baikal. Sofia Buntovskaya has nothing but praise for the lake and its pure and perfectly clear water. Her love for this natural Siberian jewel made the ...

MOSCOW, 29th January, 2025 (WAM) -- An earthquake measuring 5.6 magnitude on the Richter scale struck the Lake Baikal region in ... facilities in the area are operating normally, with no reported ...

As the world’s oldest known lake, having formed around 25 million years ago, Baikal’s remarkable depth is partly due to the area’s tectonic activity, as it lies at a divergent plate boundary.

Lake Baikal in south-east Siberia, the deepest lake in the world (1,700 m), contains 20% of all fresh running water on the planet. Located on an area comparable with that of the Netherlands ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...