Baikal lake

Baikal travel

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May 2nd 2012
While travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok by Transsiberian train, you will be crossing the deepest (1,642 meters) and affluentest lake in the world - Baikal. The lake is marvelous during all four seasons and its wild nature attracts tourists all year round.An interesting fact, that on Baikal's bank you can meet the oldest trees in the world: 500 years old ceder and 750 years old larch are gr ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more