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Grigory Ivanovich Galazy
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Former Director, Institute of Limnology, Siberian Department, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Irkutsk. Author of The Problem of Limnological and Geobotanical Remains at Baikal.

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Map of Lake Baikal in southern Russia, showing surrounding cities, physical features such as the Selenga Delta, Olkhon Island, and Bolshoy Ushkany Island, and marked water depths with the deepest point labeled as 1,620 meters. A small locator map in the upper left highlights Lake Baikal's position in Asia.
Lake Baikal, lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk oblast (province) of Russia. It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on Earth (20 million–25 million years old), as well as the deepest continental body of water, having a maximum depth…
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