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BURYATIA, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 08:Known as the deepest lake in the world, the Lake Baikal offers stunning view for the visitors with its beaches, forests that edge them, and the mountains in perfect harmony.The lake is located in the south-east of Siberia between Irkutsk Oblast and the Buryatia Republic.It has the deepest point of 1,642 meters (5,387 feet), followed by Lake Tanganyika and Caspian Sea.Baikal is home to a large number of animal and plant species that cannot be found anywhere else. One of the most remarkable is the Baikal seal (also called the nerpa), the only species of seal in the world to live exclusively in a freshwater habitat.The growing popularity of Lake Baikal contributes to the development of tourism in Buryatia, which claims to be one of the most ecologically clean regions of Russia.(Footage by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)