Russia's Lake Baikal is drowning in rubbish, and strangled by tourism


By AGENCY

Rubbish on the shores of Lake Baikal.

The shore of the world’s largest freshwater lake by volume, Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, Russia, is lined with a colourful array of kiosks and kebab stands. Countless tour buses park along the narrow beach, forming a column of vehicles a kilometre long.

The small town of Listvyanka on this great lake’s western shore was once a traditional a fishing village, but there is not much left of that heritage today.

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