Lake Baikal is the seventh-largest lake in the world. The lake is entirely located in Russia, in Eastern Russia / Southern Siberia to be exact. The name translates to “much water” in the native language of the Kurykansk, who inhabited the area around the lake in around the 6th century...
Lake Baikal in Russia is the largest lake on Earth when measured by volume. Plunging over 1,632 meters deep, it is both the deepest and the oldest lake in the world, with many arguing that it should be deemed a sea. This is backed up by the fact that it is one of the only lakes...
It rises in the hills of western Manchuria at the confluence of its two major affluents, the Shilka River and the Ergune River, at an elevation of 303 meters, running 4,370 meters into Okhotsk Sea bypassing the Tatarskiy Proliv. As it flows through China, Mongolia and Russia, it can ...
Reservoir construction is probably the most extended influence on morphodynamics of the largest rivers of Russia, but the influence of other controls resulting in channel boundary movement and channel pattern changes could also be detected.doi:10.1080/15715124.2013.814660...
The banks of the pond and marshy flat, only in the northern part of the heavily indented, near the river deltas of the Volga and the Urals. The Caspian Sea, which is located on the border of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, has a depth of 1025 meters. The most ...
The largest lake in the world by a long shot is the Caspian Sea – a name that hints at a past when it was contiguous with the ocean around 11 million years ago. This massive saline lake, which is nearly the same size as Japan, borders five countries: Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan,...
The dramatic water-level drop since the 1930s has been attributed to fluctuations in the discharges of the Volga and Kama rivers as a result of combined natural impacts, such as rainfall reduction over the catchment area, and anthropogenic factors, such as the construction of cascade reservoirs23...
(E)Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake(淡水湖) in the world,and the third largest in volume(体积), behind Lake Baikal in Russia and Lake Tanganyika in Africa.Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles. It is 616 kilometers long from the east to the west and 257...
With a surface area of 4,190 square kilometers, Khanka Lake, known as Xingkai Lake in China, is a is a transboundary freshwater lake that located on the border between Heilongjiang Province of northern China and Primorsky Krai of Russia. About 72% of it is located in Russian, and 1,160...
As the map flies between locations, you can observe variations in topography and latitude. In this map, you’ll find wetlands at the southern tip of South America and in Northern Russia. They can be craggy or lush, shaped by ancient glaciers or by some of Earth’s most ferocious rivers....