The Ladoga ringed seal is a freshwater subspecies of the ringed seal found entirely in Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia. This pinniped was isolated in freshwater lakes and separated from the Arctic
Ringed seal hunter Juho Pöllänen from Sortavala at the shores of Ladoga with his prey in 1909
The Baikal seal, also known as Lake Baikal seal or nerpa, is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest earless/true seals, and one of
A young seal
Group of Baikal seals hauling out on a rock around Ushkan Islands, Barguzinsky district