View of Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal, meaning "nature lake", is a lake located in southern Siberia, Russia. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia at 636 km long and 79 km wide and is the largest (by volume) in the world. It is also considered among the world's clearest lakes, the world's oldest lake (25 million years) and the deepest of the Earth, with 1680 meters of depth.