SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across LakeBaikal. In early 1895...
The BattleofLake Khasan (29 July – 11 August 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Russian: Хасанские бои, Chinese and Japanese: 張鼓峰事件; Chinese...
after LakeBaikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the...
second largest lake after Baikal in Russia, and the 14th largest freshwater lake by area in the world. It is comparable in size to Lake Ontario. Ladoga...
Krasnoyarsk on 7 January 1920. Kappel's 2nd Army came to a halt on the shore ofLakeBaikal near Irkutsk in January 1920. With the Red Army in hot pursuit after...
16 – The Battle of LakeBaikal is fought by the Czechoslovak legion, against the Red Army. August 21 – WWI: The Second Battleof the Somme begins. August...
whose forces led by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing reached as far north as LakeBaikal. Military tension had for a long time existed in ancient China between...
August BattleofLakeBaikal – ships commandeered by the Czechoslovak Legion defeat Bolshevik ships on LakeBaikal 15 February–September Invasion of Åland...
is signed. 1918 – The BattleofLakeBaikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army. 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is...
indicated as part of an artificial reservoir. Man-made reservoirs are abundant over a large portion of the surrounding area. LakeBaikal is often considered...
depths of Lakes Baikal and Tanganyika are deeper than Crater Lake; however, both have basins that extend below sea level." Mount Mazama, part of the Cascade...
LakeBaikal: the train ferry SS Baikal built in 1897 and passenger and package freight steamer SS Angara built in about 1900, based upon his study of...
in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through LakeBaikal and the Krasnoyarsk Dam before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the...
700 Poles who were assigned to the construction of the Circumbaikal Highway (a road near LakeBaikal and the Mongolian border) decided to disarm the guards...
incident, the BattleofLake Khasan, occurred in 1938 in Primorye. Clashes between Japanese and Soviet forces occurred frequently along the border of Manchuria...
under command of Lionel Dunsterville arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan. BattleofLakeBaikal – A Czechoslovak Legion force under command of Radola Gajda used...
locks). Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind LakeBaikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika...
160 species of birds in the peak migratory season. Birds from as far as the Caspian Sea, LakeBaikal, Aral Sea and other remote parts of Russia, Kirghiz...
Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 28 September 2020 – via Haithi Trust. "Soviet Naval Battles during Civil War (Redone)". Soviet-Empire...
their intervention on the side of the White movement, occupying Vladivostok and other key points east ofLakeBaikal. After the international withdrawal...
Republic of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia which sprawls along the southern coast and partially straddles LakeBaikal. Smaller groups of Buryats...
peoples such as the Evenks and Yukaghir. Migrating from the area around LakeBaikal, the Turkic Sakha people first settled along the middle Lena river sometime...
Japanese-supported leader of the White movement in Transbaikal and beyond from December 1917 to November 1920, a lieutenant general, and the ataman ofBaikal Cossacks...
Bijuqi, defeats the Tuqi (Worthy Prince) of the Left (East), and captures three kings. He reaches as far as LakeBaikal. Failing to reconnoiter with Wei Qing's...
the dominion of Tushiyetu Khan. The Russian Cossacks meanwhile attacked and defeated the Khalkha's contingent of 10,000 near LakeBaikal. In 1688, after...
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