IRKUTSK, December 10. /TASS/. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocked Lake Baikal, with earth tremors being felt ion the city of Irkutsk, the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry’s ...

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 ...

The remote northern coast of Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is now available to a few VIP tourists ULAN-UDE, November 24. /TASS/. The remote ...

In my previous column I described the system of design for icebreaking steamers that was worked out in the 1880s by naval ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world. It is frozen for up to five months a year and its ice is so thick cars often drive ...

Golf just got a whole lot cooler. Around 50 golfers gathered on Lake Baikal to compete in the annual Baikal Ice Golf tournament. The Siberian lake is the deepest freshwater lake in the world ...

There are many cities in the world smaller than Lake Baikal. To put its size in perspective, let’s take a look at the famous Loch Ness (Scotland). 755 feet of maximum depth, 23 miles long ...