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The Baikal Mountains or Baikal Range (Russian: Байкальский хребет, Baykalskiy khrebet; Buryat: Байгалай дабаан, Baigalai dabaan) are a mountain range that rises steeply over the northwestern shore of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia. [1]
[needs update] Lake Baikal is the only confined freshwater lake in which direct and indirect evidence of gas hydrates exists. [22] [23] [24] The lake is surrounded by mountains; the Baikal Mountains on the north shore, the Barguzin Range on the northeastern shore and the Primorsky Range stretching along the western shore.
Protected Areas of Lake Baikal. Pribaikalsky NP is dark area on west coast; Baikal-Lensky Reserve north of Pribaikalsky on the same coast. As a coastal strip and the base of the mountains west of the lake, the terrain is marked by uniform distribution of small, mountainous rivers (under 10 km each). Four rivers exceed 25 km in length.
The ecoregion is centered on the Yablonoi Mountains, a range that reaches heights of 1,600 m (5,200 ft), and runs southwest to northeast, parallel to Lake Baikal.The western edge of the region is the eastern shore of Lake Baikal and the Barguzin mountain range.
Zaybaykalsky National Park (Russian: Забайкальский национальный парк) (in English, "Trans-Baikal") covers the middle section of the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, the west slope of the Barguzin mountains to the east, the Ushkany Islands, and the only large peninsula on the lake, Svyatoy Nos ("Holy Nose").
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
The Transbaikal Bald Mountain tundra ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1112) covers the high-altitude peak zones above the treeline in a series of mountain ranges that stretch from the northern reaches of Lake Baikal to the western coastal ranges of the Okhotsk Sea. Floral communities are those of mountain tundra, with bare rock or permafrost under layers ...
Some of the main rivers of Siberia have their origin in the South Siberian mountain system, such as the Lena, Irtysh, the Yenisei and the Ob River. Other rivers of the area are the Argun, Tom, Shilka, Selenga, Katun and the Biya River. The great Lake Baikal is the most well-known lake of the region.