The Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, Russia, is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 5,387 feet.

Lake Baikal also contains an impressive 27 islands, of which Olkhon is the largest at 45 miles long, making it the third-largest lake-bound island in the world. Baikal’s waters are among the ...

Baikal seals, known in Russia as nerpa, thought to have lived in the lake for the past two million years and are the planets only exclusively freshwater seal, BBC News previously reported.. With a ...

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — A glass orb, the size of a beach ball, plops into a hole in the ice and descends on a metal cable toward the bottom of the world’s deepest lake. Then another, and another.

Discover the top 10 most beautiful lakes to visit in 2025, from Russia’s ancient Lake Baikal to Italy’s elegant Lake Como.

Russia's Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, but its beauty is skin-deep in a new astronaut photograph. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

With Russia’s borders still closed, the world’s deepest lake will have to make do with home visitors for now, write Anton Troianovski and Sergey Ponomarev Saturday 27 March 2021 00:01 GMT Comments ...

Canada is the country with the most lakes worldwide, home to around 879,000. Learn which other countries, also ranks high in ...

Listvianka, Russia -- The Baikal Ice Marathon is a standard length marathon: 26 miles long. But there is nothing standard about where those miles are run: across the frozen surface of the deepest ...

DroneTV presents a mesmerizing reel of Lake Baikal’s frozen splendor, captured through the lens of AirVuz community pilots. Watch as campers and recreationalists bask in the glow of a Siberian ...