Russian Agriculture Ministry has banned the commercial and sport fishing for the Baikal omul [Coregonus migratorius], an endangered delicacy whitefish species that makes habitat in Lake Baikal and ...

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 ...

Dubbed the “Galápagos of Russia,” Baikal hosts over 3,000 ... who can spot unusual sponges, fish species, and crustaceans.

Lake Baikal is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in light of its fauna and flora. The lakeshore offers some of the most beautiful vistas in Russia. The Trans-Siberian train route runs along ...

He discovers a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchipus grubii), while his dissertation on Livonian fish from the ... re back by the shores of Lake Baikal, they examine the fauna from adjacent lakes ...

the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of ...

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 ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1383-1392 (10 pages) Lake Baikal, Siberia, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake on Earth. However, despite decades of painstaking limnological ...

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 481 of April 11, 2025 approved the minimum and maximum values of the water level in Lake Baikal for the period from 2025 to 2027. According to ...

Once a remote secret of Siberia, Lake Baikal has blossomed into a top tourism ... "Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most ...

MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Russia’s government has earmarked 1.29 billion rubles ($18.9 million) in subsidies to implement a range of measures for protection of the world’s deepest Lake Baikal ...