Russian Presentation Final

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Presented By: 1.Parakram2.Srikanth3.Sidraj4.Desaigouda5.Anuj

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Russia:

Capital- Moscow

Currency- Rubles

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.


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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………..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


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)


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.


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.



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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


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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.


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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


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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


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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.


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