A dual-use railroad and roadway bridge over the Lena is scheduled to be built by 2013, when the Amur Yakutsk Mainline, the North-South railroad being extended from the South, will finally connect the city with the East-West Baikal Amur Mainline.

The Evenki or Ewenki are sometime conjectured to be connected to the Shiwei people who inhabited the Greater Khingan Range in the 5-9th centuries, although the native land of the majority of Evenki people is in the vast regions of Siberia between Lake Baikal and the Amur River.

From Lake Baikal, “ they spread to the Amur and Okhotsk Sea … the Lena Basin … and the Yenisey Basin ” ( 623 ).

View from the Baikal Amur Mainline | BAM railway bridge across the Upper Angara near Novy Uoyan

The territory is accessed by two railroads, the Trans-Siberian railway and the Baikal Amur Mainline.

* Baikal Amur Mainline, a railway line

She broke her knee while on the Baikal Amur Mainline railway, then tore a calf while recuperating at Lake Baikal and her plans changed to a journey around Siberia by train, boat and bus, documented in Through Siberia by Accident.

He explored the Caspian Sea, the Ural, Altai mountains and the upper Amur, reaching as far eastward as Lake Baikal.

In the Russian Empire the Cossacks constituted 11 separate Cossack voiskos, settled along the frontiers: the Don Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Astrakhan Cossacks, Ural Cossacks, Orenburg Cossacks, Siberian Cossacks, Semiryechensk Cossacks, Baikal Cossacks, Amur Cossacks, and Ussuri Cossacks.

After graduating from the seven-year secondary school, he worked as a foreman on building Baikal Amur Mainline.

The Russians gave up the area north of the Amur River as far as the Stanovoy Mountains and kept the area between the Argun River and Lake Baikal.

( The Soviet Baikal Amur Mainline in green.

The region under his control extended from Verkhne-Udinsk near Lake Baikal to the Shilka River and town of Stretensk, to Manchuli, where the Chinese Eastern Railway met the Chita Railway, and northeast some distance along the Amur Railway.

40 km or so upstream, the Vitim is crossed by the Baikal Amur Mainline between Taksimo and Kuanda.

By 1937 Frenkel was head of BAMlag, the Baikal Amur Mainline railway camp, one of the most chaotic and lethal camps in the Far East, yet when 48 Trotskyites were arrested in BAMlag in 1938 he was not among them, although the camp newspaper openly accused him of sabotage.

* September-Official ceremony at Kuanda to mark linking of eastern and western sections of Baikal Amur Mainline.

Nerchinsk () is a town and the administrative center of Nerchinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located east of Lake Baikal, east of Chita, and about west of the Chinese border on the left bank of the Nercha River, above its confluence with the Shilka River, which flows into the Amur.

It begins not far from Uda Bay on the Pacific and flows southwest, crossing the Baikal Amur Mainline just west of Fevralsk and reaches the Zeya north of the Trans-Siberian Railway and Blagoveshchensk.

The range runs north-east from Mongolia, passing just to the east of Lake Baikal.

They occur along the European Atlantic coast, including the Mediterranean basin, in the rivers that flow into the Black, Azov and Caspian Seas ( Danube, Dnepr, Volga and Don ), the north-flowing rivers of Russia that feed the Arctic Ocean ( Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Kolyma ), in the rivers of Central Asia ( Amu Darya and Syr Darya ) and Lake Baikal.

The frontiers of the short-lived nation followed the western coastline of Lake Baikal along the northern borders of Mongolia and Manchuria to the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk.

The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

This seal, along with the Ladoga Seal and the Baikal Seal, is one of the few living freshwater seals.

The speakers of Mator lived in a wide area from the eastern parts of the Minusinsk District ( okrug ) along the Yenisei River to the region of Lake Baikal.

Barguzin Range () is a range in Buryatia, Russia along the North-Eastern shore of Baikal.

Rivers are most extensively developed in the north, and the country's major river system is that of the Selenge, which drains into Lake Baikal.

At Noin-Ula and other Hun burial sites in Mongolia and region north of Lake Baikal, the artifacts displayed over twenty carved characters.

The Yakuts migrated north from their original area of settlement in the vicinity of Lake Baikal under the pressure of the Mongol expansion during the 13th to 15th century.

Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka ( at ), the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast's cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk.

The Upper Angara River (, ) is a river in Siberia to the north of Lake Baikal.

He defeated the Dingling to the north ( around Lake Baikal ), Buyeo to the east ( north of Korea ) and the Wusun to the west ( Xinjiang and Ili River ).

Together, these nomadic tribes roamed the grassy plains of western Inner Asia, between Lake Balkhash in present-day eastern Kazakhstan and Lake Baikal in present-day Russia, north of central Mongolia.

Dayan Khan and Mandukhai's nation now stretched from the Siberian tundra and Lake Baikal in the north, across the Gobi, to the edge of the Yellow River and south of it into the Ordos.

The Kirenga River flows north between the upper Lena and Lake Baikal.

In the upper section west and northwest of Lake Baikal the river flows mostly north.

It rises in the Khangai Mountains of Arkhangai aimag and flows northwards for before joining the Selenge River, which flows north into Russia and Lake Baikal.

The highest point is the Putoran Mountains rising to 1701 m. To the north of the plateau are the Putoran Mountains while to the north are the Eastern Sayan and the Baikal Mountains.

Giovanni writes of the armies of Ogedei Khan who encounter a race of dogheads who live north of the Dalai-Nor ( Northern Ocean ), or Lake Baikal.

All those tribes moved north from the Baikal Lake area avoiding confrontations with Mongols.

* The Angaran Shield, as it is sometimes called, is bounded by the Yenisey River on the west, the Lena River on the east, the Arctic Ocean on the north, and Lake Baikal on the south.

With its source east of Lake Baikal, the Vitim flows 1, 978 km north through the Transbaykalian Mountains and the town of Bodaybo.

The Russians retained Trans-Baikalia between Lake Baikal and the Argun River north of Mongolia.

It stretches for almost 1000 km from north to south from the Patomskoye Plateau and North Baikal Plateau to the Russian state border.