BAIKAL LAKE-TYPES OF LANDSCAPES IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

The Baikal lake is located in Central Asia, on Russian Federation territory, in the southern part of East Siberia, on the border between Irkutsk Region and the Buryat Autonomous Republic. The lake surface lies between 51° 29’ lat. N, extreme south point, and 55° 46’ lat. N, in north, and between 103° 43’ long. E, extreme west point and 109° 56’ long E, in the east.His elongated shape is orientated on NE-SV direction, having a 636 km maximum length; the length of the shoreline is around 2 000 km. The maximum width is 79.5 km, in the sector where Barguzin river flows into the Baikal Lake, between the villages of Onguren, in west, and Oust Barguzin, in east, and the minimum width is only 25 km, in the area of Selenga river delta.Today, the total surface of the Baikal is 31 722 km2, with 500 km2 wider, after the rising of the Irkutsk dam, on Angara river.