Lake Baikal (/baɪˈkɑːl, -ˈkæl/ by-KAHL, -KAL; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Озеро Байкал, romanized: Ozero Baykal [ˈozʲɪrə bɐjˈkaɫ]; Buryat: Байгал далай, romanized: Baigal...
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The Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica) is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal...
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The Baikal Mountains or Baikal Range (‹See Tfd›Russian: Байкальский хребет, Baykalskiy khrebet; Buryat: Байгалай дабаан, Baigalai dabaan) are a mountain...
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Baikal CPU was a line of MIPS and ARM-based microprocessors developed by fabless design firm Baikal Electronics, a spin-off of the Russian supercomputer...
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Baykal (disambiguation) (redirect from Baikal (disambiguation))
Look up Baikal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baykal, or Lake Baikal, is a lake in southern Siberia, Russia. Baykal or Baikal may also refer to: Baykal...
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Baikal (Russian: Байкал) is a Soviet (now Russian), non-alcoholic beverage of dark-brown colour. The beverage's basis is water, but it also contains extracts...
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SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal. In early 1895...
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The Battle of Lake Baikal was a naval battle undertaken by Czechoslovak forces during the Russian Civil War. In August 1918, the Czechoslovak Legion, under...
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The Baikal–Amur Mainline (‹See Tfd›Russian: Байкало-Амурская магистраль, БАМ, Baikalo-Amurskaya magistral', BAM) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) broad-gauge...
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The Baikal Rift Zone is a series of continental rifts centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. Current strain in the rifts tends to be extending...
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Ancient Northeast Asian (redirect from Baikal EBA)
7th-4th millennia before present, in far-eastern Siberia, Mongolia and the Baikal regions. They are inferred to have diverged from Ancient East Asians about...
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Baikal Cossacks were Cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (‹See Tfd›Russian: Забайка́льское каза́чье во́йско); a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the...
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Makarov pistol (redirect from Baikal 442)
commercial gun manufacture was greatly expanded under the Baikal brand. During the 1990s, Baikal marketed various Makarov-derived handguns in the United...
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The Baikal Highway is a federal highway in Russia. Its official designation is federal highway R258 "Baikal" (‹See Tfd›Russian: Федеральная автомобильная...
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Baikal is an armoured train currently in use by Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Unlike the newer trains Yenisei and Volga, Baikal was...
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The UZGA LMS-901 Baikal is a utility aircraft produced by UZGA (Ural Works of Civil Aviation). The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade selected UZGA...
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The Baikal MP-153 is a 12 gauge gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun manufactured by Kalashnikov Concern (originally by the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant) in...
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extremity of Lake Baikal from the town of Slyudyanka to the Baikal settlement. Until the middle of the 20th century the Circum–Baikal railway was part...
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The Baikal teal (Sibirionetta formosa), also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in...
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OJSC "Baikal Airlines" (‹See Tfd›Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Байкал») was an airline based in Irkutsk, Russia. It was founded in 1991 and liquidated in...
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the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM), this recent extension departs from the Trans-Siberian line at Taishet several hundred miles west of Lake Baikal and passes...
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Transbaikal (redirect from Trans-Baikal)
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia (Russian: Забайка́лье, romanized: Zabaykal'ye, IPA: [zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ]), or Dauria (Даурия, Dauriya) is a mountainous...
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Eastern Federal District since 2018. It borders Irkutsk Oblast and Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world to the north, Zabaykalsky Krai to the east...
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The Baikal Archaeology Project (BAP) is an international team of scholars investigating Middle Holocene (about 9000 to 3000 years before present) hunter-gatherers...
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Scutellaria baicalensis (redirect from Baikal skullcap)
Scutellaria baicalensis, with the common name Baikal skullcap or Chinese skullcap, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. The plant is...
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Omul (redirect from Baikal omul)
also known as Baikal omul (‹See Tfd›Russian: байкальский омуль), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia...
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Baikalfinansgrup (redirect from Baikal Finance Group)
Baikalfinansgrup (‹See Tfd›Russian: Байкалфинансгруп) is a Russian limited liability company owned by Rosneft Oil Company. It is best known as the company...
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The Baikal Nature Reserve (/baɪˈkɔːl/; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Байка́льский запове́дник) is a nature reserve and "zapovednik" on the southeast shore of Lake...
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Lake Baikal (Mongolian: Baigal Nuur) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Alisi Telengut and released in 2023. The film depicts the ancient creation...
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Paleo-Siberian languages (redirect from Baikal languages)
The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia. They are not known to have any genetic...
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