More than 400 volunteers from across Russia on Sunday cleaned up the world famous lake.
Hopes for significant rise of Chinese visitors and special fares between April and October to encourage young Russians to travel to Baikal.
Famed for the purest water on the planet, but this 'is no longer true' with 'no drinking' warning in southern part of lake.
The famously clear waters of Baikal - the world's deepest and oldest lake - are under threat from tourists, says leading scientist Maxim Timofeyev.
This is my second story for The Siberian Times, and again it is about garbage cleaning.