Buryats
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The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group whose historical homeland is centred on the Lake Baikal region and areas of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia. They speak the Buryat language. Historically
Young Buryat women wearing traditional dress, 2020
Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925
Buryats depicted on a 1933 “Peoples of the Soviet Union” stamp
Buryat ASSR in 1989
Lake Baikal
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Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia t
Buryats
…The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group whose historical homeland is centred on the Lake Baikal region and areas of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia. They speak the Buryat language. Historically, the Buryats formed part of the wider Mongol…
Lake Baikal's water is especially clear
Spring ice melt underway on Lake Baikal, on 4 May, 2012
Ice cover survey on the lake
Circle of thin ice, diameter of 4.4 km (2.7 mi) at the lake's southern tip, probably caused by convection