Irkutsk is also the door to spectacular Lake Baikal. Sofia Buntovskaya has nothing but praise for the lake and its pure and perfectly clear water. Her love for this natural Siberian jewel made the ...

An earthquake measuring 5.6 magnitude on the Richter scale struck the Lake Baikal region in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast today.The General Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region ...

TASS/. Two people died in a fire that broke out at a tourist facility on Lake Baikal’s Olkhon Island, a spokesperson for the Irkutsk Region branch of the Russian Investigative Department told ...