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Presented By: 1.Parakram2.Srikanth3.Sidraj4.Desaigouda5.Anuj
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Russia:
Capital- Moscow
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Russia's 160 ethnic groups speak some 100 languages
Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian are the most commonly spoken
languages
Russia has a free education system guaranteed to all
citizens by the Constitution, and has a literacy rate of 99.4%
The Russian Constitution guarantees free, universal
health care for all citizens.
Russia has more physicians, hospitals, and health care workers
Than almost any other country in the world on a per capita basis
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Team IX presents the 51 reasons why Lake Baikal should be one of the wonders of the world………
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Lake Baikal
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Lake Baikal is “The Blue Eye of Siberia”
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Lake Baikal is “The Pearl of Russia”
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Lake Baikal is the “Australia of fresh waters.”
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Lake Baikal is “Russia's natural jewel”
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Lake Baikal is “The soul of Siberia”
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Books on Baikal……
Phytoplankton Pigments in Lake Baikal :Susanne Fetu
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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback
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Protecting Lake Baikal: Environmental Policy Making in Russia's Transition
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Alla Tsybikova
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Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
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Matrilineal affinities and prehistoric Siberian mortuary practices: a case study from Neolithic Lake Baikal
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Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
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Lake Baikal: Marc Di Duca
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Equilibrium-line altitudes on reconstructed LGM glaciers of thenorthwest Barguzinsky Ridge, Northern Baikal, Russia
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The 51 reasons………..1. Lake Baikal is the great grand daddy of world’s lakes
2. At more than 25 million years old it is the oldest lake in the world
3. four hundred miles (636 km) long and almost fifty miles (80 km)
wide, lies almost one quarter of the all the fresh water on earth--
Lake Baikal
4. Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia, and it is just as easily
the deepest lake in the world (1,620 meters)
5. Baikal is so large that all of the rivers on earth combined would
take an entire year to fill it
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6. the lake is renowned as one of earth's most impressive natural
wonders
7. The bottom of this lake is 1280 meters below sea level, one may
think it is that deep but not; seven km deep mud (sediments
accumulated in its bottom occupy that depth –about 7 km
8. It contains 31494 sq km of fresh water, even the water of the great
five lakes of US put together, it would not equal the Baikal water
The 51 reasons………..contd
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9. Lake Baikal has 22 islands of which Olkhon is the largest; it has the
credit of being the fourth largest lake island in the world
10. Though Olkhon is a lake island; it has all the geographies of a big
continent, a small desert, steppes, taiga regions, its own lakes, high
mountains and everything a continent can have but a sea
11. It has 330 rivers flowing in to it from various surrounding Baikal
Mountains & only one river to drain the water out the Angara
River.
The 51 reasons………..contd
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12. 80% of the life around Lake Baikal is not found anywhere else in
the world.
13. Experts claim that eventually lake Baikal will divide Asia and
create a new ocean
14. There are only 2 continental rift valleys remaining in the world
which are active, Baikal rift region is one among them
The 51 reasons………..contd
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The 51 reasons………..contd15. The lake is walled in by mountains, extensions of the Sayan
Mountains
16. Lake Baikal is the world's second most voluminous lake
17. It is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world with an
average depth of 744.4 m (2,442 ft)
18. The lake was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996
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The 51 reasons………..contd19. Unlike all other deep lakes of the world in which the lower depths
are dead, poisoned by hydrogen sulphide and other gases, here the
entire thickness is rich in oxygen
20. The second wonder is Baikal's living waters! Anyone coming to the
shores of this glorious Siberian Sea is amazed by its transparency
21. Lake Baikal is a surprising and unique natural laboratory where
one can study the life in abyssal fresh waters
22. Baikal is the world’s most important reserve of clean fresh water.
The lake holds 20 per cent of global fresh water reserves (23
billion tones)
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The 51 reasons………..contd23. Trans-Siberian railway was built around the lake between 1896 and
1902 required 200 bridges and 33 tunnels as the entire lake is
surrounded by mountains
24. In the summer, its crystalline blue waters are transparent to a
depth of forty meters
25. In the winter Baikal freezes over, with ice so thick that the Trans-
Siberian Railway was briefly run over its surface.
26. Baikal acts like a large thermo-stabilizer
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The 51 reasons………..contd27. Baikal is one of the stormiest lakes, with an average of 18 stormy
days in a month compared to 3 on the black sea and 4 on the azov
sea
28. The ice on Baikal is a unique phenomenon. Its vast fields are so
transparent that the bottom and its inhabitants can seen
29. Baikal ice was so thick that during the Russo-Japanese war, the
railway track was laid straight over the ice, which made it possible
to haul 2,300 carriages and 65 locomotives across the water by
horse traction over a period 17 days.
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30. New varieties and species of organisms are continuously
developing in the lake
31. The development of the crustacean in Baikal is most extraordinary,
especially the amphipods that account for about 300 species in the
lake, a third of all the gammarids known in the world
32. There are 56 species of fish inhabiting Lake Baikal
33. they are represented in Baikal by 32 species, 29 of which are
endemic.
The 51 reasons………..contd
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34. There are more than 2600 species.
35. There are varieties of animals and over 1000 species of plants in
Baikal.
36. About 40% of the plants and 85% of animal species inhabiting in
Baikal are endemic It contains 848 native species of animals unique
to the lake and 133 species of likewise unique plants
37. These high oxygen concentrations enable a much wider variety of
plants and animals to thrive in depths that would otherwise be
inhospitable to life
The 51 reasons………..contd
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38. In the middle of the last century the well-known Baikal researcher,
Benedict Dybovsky, left the corpse of a wild animal on the ice and a
day later found a skeleton so cleanly picked that it could be put
straight into a museum as an exhibit.
39. This crayfish is only one and a half millimeters in length, but within
less than one square meter of the lake's surface scientists have
counted up to three million of them
40. Nature here has worked so hard and with such fantasy that the
whole two thousand kilometer shoreline of the glorious sea
presents a unity of landscape of striking and inimitable beauty. It
seems as if Nature here was competing with itself, was trying not to
repeat itself.
The 51 reasons………..contd
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41. Annually, the ground seismic stations register up to 2,000
earthquake tremors
42. an area of land of about 200 square kilometers sank under water to
a depth of 2 meters as the result of an earthquake whose magnitude
reached magnitude 11
43. The lake's huge water mass gives it certain features of a seashore
climate
44. It is an outstanding example representing major stages of earth's
history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological
processes in the development of landforms
The 51 reasons………..contd
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45. It contains the most important and significant natural habitats for
the conservation of biological diversity including those containing
threatened species of outstanding universal value
46. It is an outstanding example representing significant on-going
ecological and biological processes in the evolution and
development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine
ecosystems and communities of plants and animals
47. To contain superlative phenomena or area of exceptional natural
beauty and aesthetic importance
The 51 reasons………..contd
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48. The fringing mountains rise steeply to a maximum height of 8,445
ft
49. Lake Baikal is furthermore the only confined fresh water lake in
which direct and indirect evidence of gas hydrates exists
50. This remarkable lake is a one of Asia’s holy places. Peoples through
over the centuries prayed to the lake and believed in its power
51. Within Baikal’s watershed there are 3 separate Russian states and 1
Autonomous Region; 12 Mongolian states; over 45 national parks;
strict nature reserves and significant cultural sites in both regions;
not to mention over 25 Russian and 116 Mongolian counties.
The 51 reasons………..contd
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