It takes four days to reach Irkutsk Station, more than 5,000 kilometres away from Moscow. With its traditional homes, decorated with delicate lace-like wood trim, the capital of East Siberia is ...

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The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Southeast Siberia is home to the world's oldest lake, with scientists estimating that the massive body of water dates back 25 million years. As well as being the world's oldest, Lake Baikal, which ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

Baikal’s water level is 6 cm below the minimal threshold mark set at 456 meters under the Pacific scale MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. The water level in Lake Baikal, the world’s largest ...