Lake Baikal, at the start of the Angara River, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, 1980s. Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia ...

From Lake Baikal in Russia to the largest inland water body, Caspian Sea, here are some of the deepest lakes in the world. Lake Baikal Depth: 5,315 feet (1,620 meters)Location: Siberia ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world. It is frozen for up to five months a year and its ice is so thick cars often drive ...

The Russian government set the maximum and ... the projects of a pipeline to pump water from the world’s deepest freshwater body, Lake Baikal, to China look like ‘scientific fantasies.’ ...