Irkutsk and the vicinity of the Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is located in the south of Eastern Siberia,
in the
Buryat Autonomous Republic and the Irkutsk Region.
It covers 31,500 sq.km and is 636 km.long, an average of 48 km wide,
79,4 km at its widest point. The lake contains about one fifth of
the world's reserves of fresh surface-water.
The Baikal is the deepest lake in the world with
average depth about 730m, the deepest point in the middle - 1,620 m.
- SIR_C/X-SAR image of
Baikal forests (inline GIF picture, 110Kb) presented by
JPL Public Information Office (newsdesk@jpl.nasa.gov).
- A Lake Baikal photo gallery by
Vladimir V. Bashkirtsev (megadrive@geocities.com)
- The collection of GIF
"Images of Lake Baikal" is presented by V.Fridman on his
Lake Baikal page.
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Baikal Watch
organized by the Earth Island Institute presents several in-line
images of Baikal.
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Angarsk on the Internet. The Angarsk city
server provides information about the city, its mass-media, business, culture, education, medicine and sport (in Russian Win-1251). E-mail to: cross@angarsk.irtel.ru.
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Irkutsk - the city founded early XVIII century, the main cultural,
historical and industrial point of attraction near Baikal. This site provides
the city map,
small collection of original city photos, historical and academic
information, weather forecast, and extensive information about the
Lake Baikal
(
mirror in USA).
Send comments to:
Fedor Babanine (fed@icc.ru)
- SiberianDeal,
a project by Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman
(September-October 1995) presented (no longer
available) pictures and story about attempts to make
a deal in central Siberia. Send comments to: evasys@ping.at
- Deb and Nate Lipsen
present illustrated description of their "Siberian Experience" in 1995.
Their travelogue features besides Moscow and St.Petersburg 3 places
in Siberia:
Irkutsk (August 5), a Siberian city near the lake Baikal,
Listvyanka (August 6-8), a village on the West shore of the Lake
Baikal,
Ulan-Ude (August 9-12), a city in the East of Siberia, a capital
of Buryat Republic. © Copyright 1995 Nathan Lipsen.
E-mail for contacts: nate.lipsen@execnet.com
- International Electronic Magazine
World around Baikal,
15 October 1995
-
Baikal wilderness, collection of pictures about the
Baikalo-Lenski nature reserve, the territory around the lake
(comments: Tatyana Penzina tanp@max.irk.ru)
- NBC News Intellicast
provides 4 days forecast of weather in
Irkutsk.
If you know a hyper-link to a site with photos not mentioned
here, please inform !
More information about Siberia.
Pictures of other places in Siberia:
Western |
Central |
Eastern.
If you would like to see pictures of other places,
please go back to
All Regions of Russia by Pictures.
Last update: June 29, 1998.
