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	Lake Baikal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in Southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on the southeast, near Irkutsk.
		At 636 km/395 miles long and 80 km/50 miles wide, Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia (31,494 km²/12,165 miles²) and is the deepest lake in the world (1637m/5369 ft—previously measured to 1620m/5314 ft).
		The overall impacts of watershed pollution on Baikal and similar watersheds is studied annually by the Tahoe Baikal Institute, an exchange program between the U.S. and Russian and Mongolian scientists and university graduate students started in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Baikal (700 words)

	Angara launch vehicle
		The Baikal stage would be equipped with a folding wing, which is stored along the fuselage of the vehicle during the booster stage of the flight.
		The Baikal booster stage would be also equipped with an air-breathing jet engine fitted in the nose section of the rocket, which would provide a powered horizontal landing of the vehicle on the runway.
		Baikal's jet engine would be fueled by kerosene from the same tanks, which feed the vehicle's main rocket engine during the takeoff.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /baikal.html (363 words)

	SCS: Baikal Seal (Phoca sibirica)
		Hunting of Baikal seals is still carried out in the spring, the official annual kill for 2000 being 3,500 seals, mostly pups, a reduction from the 1999 quota of 6,000 seals.
		The hunt for Baikal seals has an additional effect, the 2000 survey concluding that the growing hunt in the north and middle areas of Lake Baikal has been the main reason for a large migration of seals to the southern area.
		In 1987-1988 at least 5,000 Baikal seals died as a result of infection by a form of Canine Distemper Virus which is thought to have been transmitted to the seals from dogs or other land mammals.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/baikal.htm (1493 words)

	Facts about Baikal
		Baikal's water, long famous for its spiritual and medicinal qualities, is called "living water." Unlike all other deep lakes of the world where the lower depths are dead, asphyxiated by hydrogen sulfide and other gases, Lake Baikal's deep waters are blanketed in fresh oxygen.
		Lake Baikal's ecosystem was greatly altered by the construction of the Irkutsk Dam.
		These tiny crayfish, the Baikal epishura, could be considered the "caretakers" of the lake because the devour the tiny waterweeds and bacteria that cloud the water.
	baikal.eastsib.ru /baikalfacts (2270 words)

	Baikal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Baikal — a lake in southern Siberia, Russia.
		Baikal reusable booster — a reusable flyback booster developed for the Angara rockets
		"Baikal languages" is another term for Paleosiberian languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baikal (127 words)

	MIR Corporation, travel to Lake Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baikal is the deepest lake in the world containing an estimated twenty percent of the world's fresh water supply.
		While Baikal remains incredibly clean and pristine, there are several environmental groups working to protect the lake from the effects of industrialization.
		Baikal Limnological Museum - Headquarters of the East Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Limnological Museum house a collection of the flora and fauna of the Lake Baikal region.
	www.mircorp.com /Baikal.html (1719 words)

	Lake Baikal Pollution
		Among these unique flora and fauna are the Baikal seal (believed to be a relative of the Arctic ringed seal, 3,220 kilometers away), and the omul, a fish considered to be a delicacy in the region.
		Baikal is the oldest, largest, and most unique (species-wise) lake in the world.(3) Plans for the paper mill at Baikalsk began in 1954.
		Lake Baikal is currently a test area to determine the extent of the spread of manmade pollutants.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/baikal.htm (2161 words)

	washingtonpost.com: For Lake Baikal, an Unclear Future
		Baikal is home to 1,500 species, two-thirds of them unique, most lovably the Baikal seal or nerpa, whose presence suggests that this is as much an ocean as a lake.
		But Baikal's cleanliness has been compromised by four decades of pollution from enterprises built near the lake or on its banks, most significantly the Baikalsk Cellulose Combinat, on the southern end of the lake, and a similar plant nearby on the Selenge River, one of Baikal's principal tributaries.
		A law on Baikal passed by the Duma in Moscow in 1998 bans the burning of coal in power plants around the lake, to limit acid rain and air pollution.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54622-2001Aug23?language=printer (1667 words)

	Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baikal is known by its unique, surprising beauty of the nature which is not leaving anybody indifferent.
		Baikal is in the south of Eastern Siberia.
		Baikal is the largest water basin of fresh water on the planet It takes the second place among the lakes of the globe.
	www.baikal.biz /eng/baikal.php (901 words)

	Baikal Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baikal water contains small amounts of dissolved and suspended substances, that is why, its transparency exceeds all lacustrine waterbodies in the world and is almost equal to transparency of ocean waters.
		The belt of polluted waters is regularly and constantly recorded at a distance of 7-10 km from the shore.
		Autonomous diving apparatuses "Pisces" were first brought to Baikal by the Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences in 1977.
	www.baikal.ru /old.baikal.ru/baikal/faq/b2e.htm (799 words)

	Lake Baikal, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lake Baikal, or "Sacred Sea," is located in southeastern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, Russia.
		The deepest point in Lake Baikal is 1637 m, the average depth being 630 m, and it has an exceptional clarity which allows 40-50 m of visibility.
		The highest peak of the Baikal watershed is 2840 m in the Barguzin mountain range.
	www.livinglakes.org /baikal (1189 words)

	WWW Irkutsk: About Lake Baikal - details from Encyclopedia
		Lake Baikal is located in the south of Eastern Siberia, in the Buryat Autonomous Republic and the Region of Irkutsk, Russia.
		Sables thrive in the region's taiga; valuable fur animals live in the surrounding mountains and valleys; and birds and fish abound in the forests and rivers of the area.
		The average annual precipitation in the middle and the north of Baikal is 200-350 mm.
	www.irkutsk.org /baikal/encicl.htm (385 words)

	The Oddities of Lake Baikal, Alaska Science Forum
		Baikal's surface area, about 34,000 square kilometers (more than 13,000 square miles), ranks seventh among the world's lakes, covering about the same area as the country of Belgium.
		Lake Baikal lies in a rift valley--a place where the earth's crust is pulling apart.
		Lake Baikal is at least a thousand times older, and the highend estimates go to 50 million years.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF9/986.html (773 words)

	Russia / Exploring Siberia / Baikal
		Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia, and it is just as easily the deepest lake in the world (1,620 metres).
		Luckily, Baikal was one of the first regions to benefit from the new Russian government's reversal of decades of anti-environmental industrial policies.
		Since 1992 Lake Baikal and the entire surrounding area have been designated as a national park, and Baikal is today a naturalist's paradise and an idyllic holiday destination.
	www.geographia.com /russia/baikal01.htm (433 words)

	Baikal biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baikal is teaming with life, most of which is endemic to the lake.
		Baikal species flock of gammarids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) consists of 250+ species, which is more that 75% of all freshwater gammarids.
		A lot of species of fish and gammarids are closely associated with the sponges: this picture shows a sculpin (one of 40 some endemic species) and gammarid Spinacanthus parasiticus (one of over 250 endemic species) on a sponge Lubomiskiya (one of about 12 endemic species).
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Meadows/3884/baikal.html (270 words)

	Sights of Northern Baikal
		Alpine mountains have a glacial relief, precipices, the greatly distributed in the depth of Baikal slopes, the taluses, the landslides, the stone alluvial deposits.
		This group of Baikal lakes is the place of habitat of many species of the birds on passage and waterfowl; even a rare white swan inhabits these places.
		The sandy island Yarki, the width -50-150 m., the length of which is approximately 20 km divides Baikal from the group of Baikal lakes.
	www.angelfire.com /yt/nbaikal/sightsnb.html (871 words)

	Lake Baikal. Photographs of Lake Baikal. Baikal Photos. Panoramic images of Baikal. Lake Baikal images.
		Lake Baikal is an inexpressible miracle on a coast which amazes and defies comprehension.
		Baikal is the deepest lake on the Earth and contains about 20% of the Earth's freshwaters.
		Baikal is really magnificent at any time of the year.
	www.magicbaikal.ru /album-en (173 words)

	Irkutsk & Baikal
		It is not far from Lake Baikal, down the Angara river, where a Cossack detachment headed by Yakov Pokhabov founded in 1661 a log ostrog (fort), the heart of the city.
		Baikal is inhabited by 52 fish species belonging to 12 families, from Baikal sturgeon to golomyanka (Baikal oil fish).
		The transparency of Baikal water is miraculous - you see stones on the lake bottom and it is hard to believe there are some 20 to 30 meters of depth under the keel.
	www.irkutsk-baikal.com /irkutsk&baikal.htm (3332 words)

	Research of the Baikal
		Interesting information about Baikal was left by Nikolai G. Spafarii, an ambassador of the Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich to the oriental countries (1675-1678), and in 1701 a book of drawings of Baikal appeared, compiled by Semen Remezov, which featured the Siberia of the seventeenth century as completely as was possible at that time.
		On the drawing "The Baikal Sea" the shapes of Baikal almost matched the real ones, and 40 tributaries were marked, as well as day travels and distances for day travels by sail.
		In 1916, under the Presidium of the Russian Academy, on the initiative of N. Nasonov's, an academician, the Baikal Commission was formed for the comprehensive studies of Baikal.
	baikal.irkutsk.org /research.htm (1261 words)

	Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A distinctive feature of the Angara is that it is situated in rather severe climate conditions, but ice on it comes later, than on other rivers of Siberia and even in the European part of Russia.
		According to one of the legends angry Baikal threw this rock after his daughter Angara which had run away without his permission to her beloved Yenisei.
		It is the third, after the Selenga and the Verkhnaya Angara, in water volume inflow of Baikal.
	www.baikal.biz /eng/baikal.php?stat=1 (1287 words)

	WWW Ikurtsk: Ecological problems
		Among other things, it abolished logging anywhere close to the lake shore and decreed that the cellulose plant be "reprofiled" for activities harmless to the environment by 1993.
		Dozens of international expeditions that worked on Baikal during recent years have come to the unanimous opinion: Baikal remains the cleanest reserve of fresh water, but the local alterations in its ecosystem near the Baikal pulp-and-paper plant and the region where the Selenga River flows into Baikal, impose their negative effects on its inhabitants.
		The intensive exploitation of the Baikal Territory adversely affects the primordial, easily injured Siberian nature.
	baikal.irkutsk.org /ecology.htm (362 words)

	Information on Lake Baikal
		Lake Baikal, located in eastern Siberia, has loomed large in the cultural consciouness of Russians since the first Russian explorers caught sight of it in the late sixteenth century.
		In the Soviet period, Baikal became a source of solace and reverence to the millions of inmates who inhabited the infamous Gulag Archipelago.
		For Siberian citizens, Baikal continues to be a daily source of pride, a physical and psychological refuge from the bitterness of Communist-era and Post-Communist sufferings.
	www.wellesley.edu /Russian/Baikal/baik_info.html (648 words)

	Lake Baikal - The Jewel of Siberia
		Most lakes fill with sediment in about 20,000 years, but Baikal has survived because it is on a geological rift that grows nearly an inch a year - enough to accommodate the silt and animal remains that drift to the bottom.
		Lake Baikal is cherished by Russians as the "Jewel of Siberia", because of its beauty and clarity.
		Baikal is more like an inland sea than lake, with the world's only species of freshwater seals, a complex system of self-purification and hot water vents that nurture life in the deep.
	www.ccaej.org /projects/lakebaikal.htm (4638 words)

	Lake Baikal Travel
		The deepest point in Lake Baikal is 1637 m, the average depth being 630 m.
		The most unique animal at Baikal is the freshwater seal, known as the nerpa, which is also the only mammal which inhabits the lake.
		The Baikal region is infamous for ticks and encephalitis is not uncommon.
	www.firebirdtravel.com /baikal.htm (591 words)

	Baikal - Information - GoBaikal.com - Lake Baikal Travel Guide - Tourism opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baikal is the largest reservoir of fresh water in the world except glaciers.
		Severobaikalsk and Nizhneangarsk are the Northern-most towns on Baikal.
		The majestic views of Lake Baikal were incredible from the plane.
	www.gobaikal.com /info/tompuda.shtml (5872 words)

	Lake Baikal \| Greenpeace Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lake Baikal is one of the greatest lakes on the planet, a lake of "superlative degrees".
		The climate of the Baikal shores is amazingly mild compared to the typically rigorous Siberian climate.
		Destruction of wild animals' habitats in the catchment area of Lake Baikal resulting from construction activities, excessive impact of recreation and withdrawal of land from National Parks and reserves.
	www.greenpeace.org /russia/en/campaigns/world-natural-heritage/lake-baikal (446 words)

	Baikal Firearms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baikal is also well known for producing the PSM compact pistol, as well as Simonov autoloading (SKS) carbines.
		Today Baikal is home to some 16,000 employees and has a line that includes nearly 50 sporting arms, which share a shrinking retail market around the world.
		Baikal is one of the largest employers in Izhevsk.
	www.gunsandammomag.com /long_guns/bear_simplicity (1431 words)

	Lake Baikal - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world.
		Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science.
		The Committee inscribed Lake Baikal as the most outstanding example of a freshwater ecosystem on the basis of natrual criteria (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=754 (287 words)

	Visit Irkutsk, Siberia and canoe Lake Baikal
		Baikal is known for its clarity and a depth of 40 meters can be seen through the water.
		The region surrounding Lake Baikal is composed of Tiga forests.
		Baikal is located 70km from Irkutsk and can be easily reached by bus.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/travel/liz.html (1178 words)

	Research of the Baikal
		Interesting information about Baikal was left by Nikolai G. Spafarii, an ambassador of the Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich to the oriental countries (1675-1678), and in 1701 a book of drawings of Baikal appeared, compiled by Semen Remezov, which featured the Siberia of the XVII-th century as completely as it was possible at that time.
		He visited Baikal, compiled a map of the lake, made a description of Baikal, narrated about hot springs on its north-western shore.
		At the same time, at the Baikal station of Biological and Geographical Research Institute (now Biological Research Institute of the Irkutsk State University) M. Kozhova supervised hydrobiological researches.Among the baikalologists of the 20-th century the name of Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozhov, undoubtedly, ranks in the first row.
	www.friends-partners.org /irkutsk/baikal/research.htm (1309 words)

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