Irkutsk Oblast
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Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. It ha
Spring at the Irkutsk Botanic Garden. The pink blooming bushes in the middle are a relic plant, Prunus pedunculata. Picea pungens trees are in the backdrop.
The Circum-Baikal Railway skirts the southwestern tip of Lake Baikal
1866 ground-breaking ceremony for the Chapel of Christ the Savior in Irkutsk
Chapel of the Savior and Medvednikovsky Bank, 1897
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
Irkutsk Oblast
…which separate it from Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia; Krasnoyarsk Krai in the west; the Sakha Republic in the northeast; and Zabaykalsky Krai in the east. Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake in the world (containing over a fifth of Earth's fresh liquid surface water), is located in the southeast of the region…
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