18:51 Байкал (Baikal) |
 Lake Baikal is located in the south of Eastern Siberia. In the form of nascent crescent, it stretched from southwest to northeast. Baikal lake is no deeper than on the continents of the world - 1637 m bottom of the Baikal basin is 1200 m below sea level - is the lowest place on land across the globe. The basin of the lake holds one-fifth of all fresh water on earth (23,000 cubic meters. Km). To make it into the sea, all the rivers of the planet would have to work for eight months! By volume of water in Lake Baikal is almost 100 times greater than the Sea of Azov. In addition, Lake Baikal - the purest in the world the natural repository of fresh drinking water. The world is not open reservoirs of fresh water suitable for bottling drinking water, except for him. The waters of Lake Baikal have very high taste. The climate of the lake and its shore line is the sea. Irkutsk was founded in 1661 as the Irkutsk prison. The city is located on the Irkutsk-Cheremkhovo plain at the confluence of the Angara River Irkut (port), 66 km west of Lake Baikal. One of the largest economic center of Eastern Siberia. The difference in time between Irkutsk and Moscow is +5 hours. Irkutsk - an old Siberian city, ancient buildings which date back to the XVIII century. and constructed in a unique style - the Siberian, or Irkutsk, Baroque. The village. Listvyanka - a relatively small village, which stretches along the shore of the lake at 5 km. In the village of a few grocery stores and kiosks. A restaurant and cafe. From the beginning, most of Baikal Listvyanka routes. The most visited places by tourists Listvyanka: Shaman-stone. The source of the Angara - the widest in the world and a major source of the river. The width of the source of 863 meters. In half a kilometer from the conditional alignment is visible top of stone referred to in the legends. By belief Buryat shamans, lived on a rock all-powerful spirits, on the stone were held prayer ceremonies. A memorial stone Vampilov. Not far from the source of the Angara, on a steep bank near the road is a monument to Alexander Vampilov - Soviet playwright. The author of the famous plays "The Elder Son," "Duck Hunt" and other great works. He was tragically killed near this place in August 1972 Baikal Astrophysical Observatory. Large solar vacuum telescope, located on a mountaintop in Listvyanka - the only Lake Baikal in a series of chromospheric telescope designed to detect solar flares and observations of large-scale structure of solar activity. During the tour, the telescope can be seen in the daytime disk of the Sun with the prominences. Of the telescope from the top of the mountain opened a beautiful panoramic view of Baikal and the Angara River source. Baikal zoo. Initiator of the zoo - Valery Prokopievich Danube - moved from Irkutsk to Listvyanka. First teddy bear, Masha, was found on the conflagration, and that she did not die, they took with them. Now live at the zoo three bears, two foxes, red deer and mountain sheep. St. Nicholas Church. According to legend, in the early nineteenth century. Russian merchant Serebryakov Xenophon during the voyage across Lake Baikal suffered a disaster. He threatened to clear the death. But do not despair, he prayed fervently for the salvation of St. Nicholas, patron saint of sailors. A miracle happened: he saw himself Xenophon St. Nicholas, hurrying to the rescue! .. As a token of deep gratitude for the miraculous rescue of Serebryakov vowed to build a temple in honor of the great miracle-worker. Construction was started in 1846 in the village. Nicolas on the banks of the Angara River and was completed after the death of his wife, Natalia merchant. The church was transferred twice. For the first time on the shore of Lake Baikal, the second time in 1957 in connection with the construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric station and the subsequent rise of water into the shore. Now the church is located 500 meters from the lake in Krestovskaya Falls Village. Listvyanka, and it takes place worship. In the late 50s. the church was again restored and equipped with icons from other churches of Irkutsk. Among these icons are monuments of the mid-eighteenth century. Circum-Baikal Railway - a unique monument of the complex - a historical and architectural nature and landscape protected area, part of the zone of Baikal State Natural National Park. Located on a narrow strip of south-western coast of Lake Baikal, it covers the area from Lake Baikal railway station to the railway station Slyudyanka.  This area includes the monuments of engineering art (tunnels and galleries, bridges and viaducts, retaining walls), monuments of architecture. Such amount of engineering structures, as CBRY, there is no longer in any part of the railway across Russia. From Baikal station to station Slyudyanka engineering and architectural complex nearly a century-old building is preserved to the present time, as follows: tunnels and galleries - all free-standing facilities and equipment - 56; complexes of bridges and viaducts - 248, retaining walls - 268; monuments - 172 (architectural complex of the most affected - many buildings were dismantled and shipped outside the protected area CBRY), and this complex is most focused on the long stretch of road, 84 kilometers from Lake Baikal to Kultuk, which is a mountainous, rocky shore.Small Sea - a unique natural environment of Lake Baikal area. It is situated between the west coast of the lake and the largest lake island Olkhon. Connects with the Small Sea Olkhon Gates Strait lake. The sea has a complex coastline, forming a number of shallow bays, convenient parking for visitors and shelter small boats. Low rainfall, abundant sunshine, warm water in the bays, beautiful mountain taiga and forest landscapes, and the availability of small sea coast has made it one of the most popular holiday destinations. On the mainland side of the strait is the village Sahyurta (MPC) associated with the Irkutsk by bus and on the island of Olkhon - ferry. Sandy Bay - the most famous place on Lake Baikal, where there are the famous "stilted" trees, from which the water and the wind always blow and wash away the sandy soil. Unique Seaside taiga slope of the ridge with spectacular groups of rocks gently down to Baikal. Sandy Bay beach is framed by picturesque cliffs Most pyramidal bell tower (height 80 m above lake level) and small bell-tower (60 m). Sandy beach shaped like a semicircle, a length of 750 m, a width of 15 to 20 m, gives a picturesque bay views. In the bay the name stuck, "Siberian Riviera", and it was declared a natural monument. Her photographs are often decorated with the publication of the Baikal. In Sandy Bay, microclimate, and a large number of sunny days per year, is the same as in the resorts of the Black Sea coast. This is the only place in Eastern Siberia, where the average annual air temperature is positive (+0,4 ° C). The water temperature in the bay all summer remains low, and swimming can only hardened people. Olkhon Island is located in the central part of the lake, near the highest mark of the depth (1637 m), midway between the northern and southern extremities of the lake. Olkhon has concentrated on its territory, the diversity of natural landscapes of the coast of Lake Baikal. Even in form it resembles the shape of Lake Baikal. For wildlife enthusiasts and photographers, this is a real sanctuary amazingly diverse landscapes and magnificent scenery. The island is rich in archaeological sites, according to their number in a square. miles he has no equal in the whole Baikal region. On the island of Olkhon 143 known archaeological sites (1993). This burial grounds, ancient settlements, remnants of stone walls. Mukhor Bay (in Buryat means "dead end", "end", "edge") - a shallow, relatively warm, the length of it for about 8 km. It ends in stalemate Small Sea, while on the opposite side it is open to Lake Baikal. Valley rivers flowing into the bay, covered with a rich meadow vegetation. The mouth of this river is called the natural boundary of the Khara-Togot, which means "buttercup" or "beautiful blissful place." Because of the shallow bay before the other is covered with ice, what attracts fans of ice fishing. In the summer of Muhorsky Bay - the most populated area of holidaymakers, thanks to the warm water, sandy beaches and an abundance of fish. At the southern tip of the Gulf Muhorskogo in his corner, there is an interesting hydro-geological monument of nature - a powerful dome gidrolakkolitt - permafrost heaving mound of soil. 
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