Hopes for significant rise of Chinese visitors and special fares between April and October to encourage young Russians to travel to Baikal.
Projects in Buryatia underway despite warnings of a crisis in pollution in world's deepest lake.
Environmentalists call for World Bank to halt funding for projects that could alter flow of rivers leading into lake with water nearing critical low.
The month of November saw three suicides by two girls and a boy in Pervomaisk in Trans-Baikal Territory.
Epicentre of quake measuring up to 6 on Richter Scale was under Lake Baikal - but local pets knew it was coming.
The ice is visibly cracked but the team led by photographer Vadim Makhorov successfully landed Cessna 172 on Lake Baikal.
Economic crisis to blame for delay in plan to breathe new environmentally-friendly life into former Lake Baikal polluter.
This Russian treasure has 1,500 species of flora and fauna not found anywhere else on the planet.
Plans for modern Nature Theme Park and Acqua-park on site of old pulp and paper mill that spewed pollution into lake.
Scientist warns of 'environmental disaster' due to 'irreversible' pollution in world's deepest and oldest lake.