Lake Baikal, an enormous body of water ... Yet, when passing through an endless stretch of birch forest, it becomes almost unbelievable. Even spotting a single well-shaped, tall, thick-trunked ...

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

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 ...

Located in southern eastern Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal holds the title of world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 5,315 feet. It's also one of the Earth's oldest freshwater lakes ...

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 ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

Watch as Sergey Ivanov goes crashing into Lake Baikal in Siberia after misjudging the thickness of the ice. Ivanov was only saved by the quick thinking of his friend. ‘There was no time to think.

Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal ... away in the forest nearby ...