Lake Baikal

Made by:Aleksey Ermolchev,

And Adapted for WFLMS by Warren Thompson 2010

Lake Baikal is situated almost in the centre of the enormous mainland of Eurasia shaped like a narrow blue half moon.

Lake Baikal - 636 km long and 80 km wide.

- surrounded by high hills an .d is as large

as Belgium.

336 permanent rivers and brooks fall into Lake Baikal,

the largest among them is the Selenga.

The only river which flows out Lake Baikal is the Angara.

The total area of the lake is 31 470 square kilometres. The maximal depth of the lake is 1637 m, the average depth is 730 m.

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, it’s without a doubt. There are 30 islands on Lake Baikal, the largest one is the island of Olkhon.

According to literary records this lake is 20-25 million years old.

Baikal water

Baikal water is unique and amazing as the lake itself. It’s unusually transparent, clear and rich in oxygen. It was considered to be healthy and healing in old times. It was used to treat different illnesses.

In the spring the transparency of Baikal water is 40 m. It can be explained by the fact that due to the activity of living organisms dwelling there, the water in the lake is mineral and close to distilled.

The volume of water in Lake Baikal is about 23000

mega liters that makes 20% of the world and 90% of Russian supplies of fresh water.

There is more water in Lake Baikal than in all five Great

American lakes taken together (22725 km3 ).

Annually ecosystems in Lake Baikal reproduce about

60 % of the clear, oxygen saturated water.

Lake Baikal for tourists

Today everything related to Lake Baikal causes genuine interest not only in Russia but also abroad. For the last decade Lake Baikal has become a magnet for many tourists

Baikal’s magnificent nature, a swiftly developing infrastructure – hotels, roads, transportation; people’s hospitality – everything shows that the number of tourists will increase in the future.

Welcome to Lake Baikal! You’ll have a chance to admire its beauty and the cleanness of its water, to feel its mystic energy which this sacred Lake–sea gives to anyone who comes to its banks.

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