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Lake Baikal is nicknamed "Older sister of Sister Lakes (Lake Khövsgöl and Lake Baikal)". [134] According to 19th-century traveler T. W. Atkinson, locals in the Lake Baikal Region had the tradition that Christ visited the area: The people have a tradition in connection with this region which they implicitly believe.
Map of the Lake Baikal Rift Zone from the USGS factsheet. The Baikal Rift Zone is a series of continental rifts centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. Current strain in the rifts tends to be extending with some shear movement. A series of basins form along the zone for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi), creating a rift valley.
The Baikal Mountains or Baikal Range (Russian: Байкальский хребет, Baykalskiy khrebet; Buryat: Байгалай дабаан, Baigalai dabaan) are a mountain range that rises steeply over the northwestern shore of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia. [1]
Zaybaykalsky National Park (Russian: Забайкальский национальный парк) (in English, "Trans-Baikal") covers the middle section of the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, the west slope of the Barguzin mountains to the east, the Ushkany Islands, and the only large peninsula on the lake, Svyatoy Nos ("Holy Nose").
View of Lake Baikal in Buryatia View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk Landscape of southern Buryatia. The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal. Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) Borders: Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S ...
For aquatic habitat, the park is in the "Lake Baikal" freshwater ecoregion (WWF ID#601), a region that covers the immediate drainage basin of the lake. The water of the lake itself is characterized by oxygen saturation over 70% (even at maximum depths), high levels of clarity, and low calcium.
The oldest building in the region, the Dormition Church, built 8 km from Nerchinsk in 1706–1712. The ancient proto-Mongol Slab Grave Culture occupied the area around Lake Baikal in the Transbaikal territory. [3] In 1667, Gantimur opened Transbaikalia and the country on the Amur River to the influence of the Tsardom of Russia. [citation needed]
Irkutsk is the biggest city in the region around Lake Baikal. Baikalia (also transcribed as Baykalia. Russian: Прибайкалье, romanized: Pribaykal'ye) is a vague geographical term referring to the region around Lake Baikal. It is less common than the concept of Transbaikalia, the area to the east of Lake Baikal. The term Baikalia is ...