Baikal - the deepest lake on Earth and the cleanest

In the south of Eastern Siberia, where the Irkutsk Region borders the Buryat Republic, is the deepest lake on Earth - Lake Baikal. Only the average depth of the pond is 744 meters, while the maximum is 1642! But this is not his only virtue and remarkable feature.

Baikal - a unique phenomenon of its kind on the planet Earth. This is the largest natural repository of the purest fresh water, which accounts for one fifth of the world's reserves and nine tenths of Russia's. The deepest lake on Earth in terms of water volume exceeds all the North American Great Lakes taken together. It stores 23 thousand cubic meters of fresh water. If water suddenly disappeared from Lake Baikal, the rivers from all over our planet would need a whole year to fill it up again.

Baikal is transparent as glass, and a white disk with a diameter of 20 centimeters is viewed at a depth of more than 50 meters! Three hundred rivers flow into the deepest lake on Earth, and only one follows - the majestic Angara.

The mountain ranges bordered the basin, in which Baikal is located. Primorsky and Baikal encircle its northwestern part, Barguzinsky - northeast, and from the southeast - Khamar-Dabansky ridge. The lake is famous for its islands. The largest among them - Olkhon - the heart of Lake Baikal.

Do not see the deepest lake on Earth, the age of which is about 25 million years, so to prevent a miracle happening in life. Two thirds of the plant and animal world of Lake Baikal are endemic. Nerpa, Baikal seal, you will not find anywhere else! And there are more clear days on Baikal in the year than in Sochi. Beaches and lagoons, sand dunes and misty swamps, taiga and steppes, endless meadows and snow-white mountain ranges - this coastal world is unique!

In the Bay of Peschanaya the warmest Baikal water. It is located on the western shore of the lake between the Kharga cape and the Middle Yokes. Only here you can see the majestic pine and larch on the awesome "stilts". Due to the fact that the sandy soil is constantly blown out from under the trees, their roots are bare.

Baikal omul, whitefish, sturgeon, lenok, grayling, taimen ... The list of fish names, which is found in the sacred lake, for fishermen sounds like music for musicians.

Baikal is beautiful at any time of the year. Winter gave him a unique range of northern colors. The sun's rays, reflecting from the ice surface and refracting, are iridescent with a rainbow spectrum. The thickness of the ice shell, which binds the lake in cold months, reaches a meter or more, although because of the pebbles visible on the bottom of Lake Baikal, it seems thin. But this is an illusion! Ice is very durable and can withstand the train. With the beginning of spring, ice breaks open and crashes with a crash, it cracks continuously, and closer to summer wind and waves pour transparent blocks onto the shore, forming landscapes unsurpassed in beauty.

This is what, the deepest lake on Earth! It is not surprising that UNESCO did not ignore Baikal. The lake is on the World Heritage List. More than three hundred thousand tourists, scientists and researchers from around the world come to see and know the extraordinary miracle created by nature - Baikal!