Reference
- The area registers some 2,000 earth tremors a year.
- To our last Soviet botanist companion, Dr Nikolai Lobelius, member of many expeditions in both taiga and tundra, I must express my gratitude and admiration for his skill and patience in leading three of us safely down the east Sayan mountains during a torrential thunderstorm.
- Qne Soviet botanist in the party, Dr Vladimir Molozhnikov, of the Limnological Institute, told us he had walked 5,000 kilometres in seven years’ intermittent work compiling the vegetation maps of the Baikal depression.
- Arrakum, the exiled leader of the Old Believers and the first person to leave a written description of Baikal, wrote that the birds were so many they were “like snow on the surface of the lake”.