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2013 год

"Oh Baikal Cosmos!" When I touch you I forget all my sorrows, Because you exist, Let me, Baikal, lower my head towards you... (the poem by O.V. Bykov, Irkutsk journalist and writer, "Oh Baikal Cosmos!" )

Baikal

In 1996 the UNESCO World Heritage Committee gave Lake Baikal the status of World Heritage

The pearl of Siberia

Located in south-central Siberia,Russia, surrounded by mountains, forests and wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and breathtaking area of natural beauty.Although it's not the biggest lake in the world in size - that distinction goes to the salty Caspian Sea - it is the largest by volume..

The beauty of Lake Baikal

The external beauty of Lake Baikal is primarily a combination of magnificent bays, capes and coves, and mountains and hills surrounding the lake with their rich flora. The diversity of trees, shrubs, grasses and flowers that can be found on Lake Baikal is hard to imagine. But it is trees that define the perception of local nature. They are a pine, a larch, a cedar, a birch, a fir, an aspen and a cedar elfin.

DO YOU KNOW THAT…

• Baikal is the deepest continental body of water on Earth

• It contains one-fifth of the fresh water on Earth's surface.

DO YOU KNOW THAT…

More than three hundred and thirty( )rivers and streams flow into the lake but only one, the Angara, flows out.

330

How long/how wide is it?

The lake is

(636)km long and eighty-one (81)km wide

six hundred and thirty –six

How many?Baikal is home to more than

(2,500 species) of plants and animals, (2/3) of which can be

found nowhere else in the world.

two thousand five hundred

two-thirds

Plant and animal life

Plant and animal life is rich and various

Wildlife Bears, elks, lynxes and other wildlife abound in the surrounding forests and mountains.

The largest freshwaterLake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume (23,600km3), containing twenty (20)% of the world's fresh water. It is the deepest freshwater lake in the world :

(1,637) m; the average depth is (758)m.

one thousand six hundred and thirty- seven

seven hundred and fifty-eight

Fish

Baikal omul fish

Baikal oil fish

The only seal• Found only in Lake Baikal, the Baikal seal also

known as the nerpa, is one of the only freshwater seal species in the world.

Baikal seals are the only seal that lives entirely in freshwater, and can remain under water for up to 45-60 minutes. This is due to the extraordinary capacity of their blood to hold oxygen, and allows them to dive to depths of almost 300m.

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Nerpa

In winter time, when the lake is covered by the thick layer of ice, the seal makes breath-throughs (holes in the ice) with its sharp claws. Nerpa feeds on fish. No words can describe the feeling that is left after meeting a living nerpa somewhere in a quiet bay or near Ushkany Islands. The trustful, open look of the seal's big clever eyes will charm everyone. For hours the animals can bask in the sun playing with their kin.

NerpaThe trustful, open look of the seal's big clever eyes will charm everyone. For hours the animals can bask in the sun playing with their kin.

3. The pearl of Siberia

Located in south-central Siberia, not far

from the Mongolian border and

surrounded by mountains, forests and

wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and

breathtaking area of natural beauty.

At Frolova Cape. Frolikhinskiy Reserve

Nemnyanka Cape in Frolikhinskiy Reserve.

Enjoy the beauty of the islands and bays!

Cliffs of the Sagan-Khushun cape

Zabaikalskiy National Park

The Island of Olkhon. Quiet bay

Frolikhinskiy Reserve. Elephant-rock

Panorama of Cape Sagan-Khushun. The Island of Olkhon

Black and white

Shamansky Cape

Sagan-Khushun Bay on the Island of Olkhon

Sandy beach of Barguzinsky Bay. Tan Bay

Kultuk Bay. Svyatoy Nos (Holy Nose) peninsula

Sagan-Khushun cape and bay

Maloye Morye. Misty evening

Maloye Morye. Mist

View from the cliffs of the Island of Olkhon

View of Sagan-Khushun Bay. Cliffs

Non-freezing River Khakusinka in the Khakusy Bay..

4. Industrial pollution

Despite its listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lake Baikal continues to come under threat from industrial pollution, agricultural run-off and other environmental problems, including nearby mining activities and potential oil and gas exploration.(find adjectives )Environmental agricultural

potential

Keep Baikal alive!

The threat of an oil pipeline along the lake’s north shore was averted in 2006 thanks to efforts by WWF and many other environmental organizations.

The river Ledyanaya. Baikalo-Lenskiy Nature Reserve(заповедник)

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Байкале

In 1996 the UNESCO World Heritage Committee gave Lake Baikal the status of World Heritage (На 20-й сессии Комитета Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО, состоявшейся 5 декабря 1996 года в мексиканском городе Мерида, Байкал был включен в Список природного наследия ЮНЕСКО)

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