Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia) 1:550,000 Recreation Map, waterproof, GPS-compatible REISE

Regional map of the Lake Baikal area on waterproof and tear-resistant paper. Contours with altitude colouring and numerous spot heights and pass heights show the topography of the surrounding area. Salt lakes, swamps, and salt marches are marked, as well as seasonal rivers, springs, waterfalls, and thermal spas. Road information includes unsurfaced tracks, paths and routes used in winter months, with intermediate driving distances and locations of petrol stations shown on main and secondary roads. Mountain passes are annotated to show when open to motorized traffic. Other transport details include railways with stations, ferry routes on the lake, and local airfields.

National parks, nature reserves and numerous places of interest are highlighted. Symbols show various types of accommodation (tourist hostel, mountain huts, etc.), hospitals, post offices, museums and monuments, archaeological sites, skiing areas, etc. Longitude and latitude lines are drawn at 30' intervals.

The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale and a convenient sheet size (size 100 x 70 cm / 39.5 x 27.5 in) . Place names of towns and villages are given in both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, whilst names of geographical features such as mountain ranges, peaks, rivers, lakes, etc. and of places of interest are in Latin alphabet only. Multilingual legend includes English, the map is indexed. High quality German cartography.

For access to Lake Baikal, there is a separate map by the same publisher at scale 1:2,000,000 named Russia from the Urals to Lake Baikal.