Olkhon Island

Siberian 'suslik' needs human rescue from passing motorists on Olkhon island in Lake Baikal.

Police warn that the foreign visitors are 'risking their lives' on world's deepest lake.

White-knuckle driver Roman Rusinov and motor journalist Andrey Leontjev smash the Russian on-ice speed record. 

Bronze Age burial near Lake Baikal intrigues archeologists who have not yet revealed contents of leather pouch between man's kneecaps.

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.

More than 400 volunteers from across Russia on Sunday cleaned up the world famous lake.

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.

This evocative melody is literally the sound of Nature as a group of Russian percussionists make music on the frozen waters of breathtaking Lake Baikal.

Epicentre of quake measuring up to 6 on Richter Scale was under Lake Baikal - but local pets knew it was coming.