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The popularity of Lake Baikal is growing from year to year, but there is no developed infrastructure in the area. The ice road to Olkhon Island is the only legal ice road on Lake Baikal. The route is prepared by specialists every year and it opens when the ice conditions allow it. In 2015, the ice road to Olkhon was open from 17 February to 23 ...
Cape Kholyanki is a popular ice fishing location because of the relatively colder and deeper water. [3] [1] [4] [5] About 5 km due east of Cape Dukhovy and 3 km southeast of Cape Bilyutinsky is a shallow 2.5 km by 1.2 km pond, Lake Dukhovoye, that has an outlet about 1.5 km northeast of Cape Dukhovy. [3] [1] [4]
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East and is the easternmost river of the three great rivers of Siberia, including the Ob River and the Yenisey River, which flow into the Arctic Ocean. [ note 1 ] The Lena river is 4,294 km (2,668 mi) long and has a capacious drainage basin of 2,490,000 km 2 (960,000 sq mi); thus the Lena is the eleventh ...
The "island" is spearhead-shaped, 56 km long and 20 km wide, with a sharp tip (at ) pointing southwest and a blunter point at the otherA mountain ridge runs the whole length of the island; the highest point is the flat peak of Mount Markova [1] (altitude 1878 m, at ), a popular hiking destination with a scenic view of most of Lake Baikal
Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka, the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk.It then crosses the Angara Range and turns west, entering Krasnoyarsk Krai, and joining the Yenisey near Strelka, 40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Lesosibirsk.
Tourism is encouraged, although certain highly sensitive areas—such as the Ushinsky Islands—require special permits and strict controls. For the wide variety of hiking and recreational sites within the park, a day pass may be purchased at the entrance. In the winter, ice fishing is permitted, as is cross-country skiing on the ice along the ...
The park is managed with three other nature reserves, and is a major component of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Lake Baikal". [1] The Angara River, which is the outflow of Lake Baikal west into the Yenisei River basin, runs through the park. The park has very high levels of biodiversity and endemic species. [2]
The Baikal-Lena Reserve has three sectors: the coast ("The shore of brown bears"), the Upper Lena River, and the Kirengsky sector. [2] Because of its position on the lake shore with a mountain ridge to the west to screen the prevailing winds, Baikal-Lena is the driest reserve on the lake.