Байкальское городское поселение

Few communities in Irkutsk Oblast are as closely shaped by Soviet-era pulp production as Baikalskoye Urban Settlement. It belongs to the southern Lake Baikal area, where the Khamar-Daban Mountains descend toward the shore of the world’s deepest lake. Baikalsk developed around the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill, an enterprise long associated with local employment as well as debates over protecting Baikal; production ceased in 2013. The Trans-Siberian Railway follows the lake’s southern edge, linking this part of the region with Irkutsk and the Russian Far East. Explore further places through webcams across Baikalskoye Urban Settlement and southern Lake Baikal.

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