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Baikal - pride of Russia
Lake Baikal is in Russia, in the Eastern part of Siberia.
Lake Baikal is located in the Irkutsk region( the Republic of Buryatia), its depth is 1 642 m. The length of Lake Baikal is 620 km, the width varies and in different places varies from 24 to 79 km .The area of the lake is 31.7 thousand km².The Baikal has 336 permanent tributaries. The age of the deepest lake is about 25 million years old .The shape of the lake resembles a huge crescent moon. The volume of water in Baikal is about 23 billion tons of .
In order to fix the depth of the lake, in 2002 there were 13,127,888 measurements taken in different places, this is really a colossal and laborious scale of work.
Very often historians and scientists argue about the origin of the name "Baikal", there are several versions, but in official sources it is customary to use one of the most probable - name comes from the Turkic "Bai-Kul", which translates as "rich lake" .
Baikal is located in a very seismically active area. Earthquakes occur here several times a year, but their magnitude is so small that only highly sensitive devices can fix this seismic activity. The Baikal earthquakes are insensible to man.
Russia is so proud of Baikal that in honor of it established a special holiday: "Day of Lake Baikal".The holiday is celebrated on the second Sunday of September.
Unique Baikal
Lake Baikal is truly unique, except that it is the deepest on the planet, it is also rich in interesting facts, the most curious of which we will tell below.
Baikal is rich in representatives of the water world, whose species and subspecies number about 2 600 units. It is worth noting the fact that 27 species of Baikal fish are unique to , they are found only here and nowhere else.
The water in Baikal is crystal clear, you can safely see the bottom located at a depth of 40 meters - fantastic, is not it? !
Baikal is a rather troubled lake and it is sometimes called the sea. The fact is that this lake is inherent in a storm. Waves on the Baikal can reach about 5 meters , indeed, both at sea.
Because of the high mineral content, Baikal's water is referred to as distilled water.
In the severe Russian winter, Baikal is covered with a very impressive crust of ice, which is always strewn with cracks, they can reach 30 km in length.
Finally we recommend to watch an interesting film about this unique lake of the world.
