Baikal Mountains

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View of the mountains of the Baikal Mountains in the summer of Bolshiye Koty from the southwestern shore of Lake Baikal

The Baikal Mountains ( Russian Байкальский хребет, scientific transliteration Bajkal'skij Chrebet ) is a mountain range (up to 2,588 meters) on the western shore of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia.

The belonging to the South Siberian mountains Baikal Mountains, which is sparsely populated, located in the Irkutsk Oblast and the Republic of Buryatia. It is bordered to the north by the Central Siberian Plateau, in the north- east by the Stanowojhochland, in southern directions to Lake Baikal and in the West it's the valley of the Lena, which rises in these mountains, in the valley of the Angara over. The mountain range of the Baikal mountain range extends over a length of 300 km.