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Key facts
- Peak
- Mount Chersky
- Elevation
- 2,572 m (8,438 ft)
- Native name
- Байкальский хребет ( Russian )
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast
- Parent range
- South Siberian Mountains
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain range
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Buryatia
- Continent
- Asia
- Elevation
- 2572
- Image
- Baikalskoe - panoramio.jpg
- Length
- 600
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- mountain range
- South Siberian Mountains
- native label
- Байкальский хребе
- Commons category
- Baikal Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
The Baikal Mountains or Baikal Range (Russian: Байкальский хребет, Baykalskiy khrebet; Buryat: Байгалай дабаан, Baigalai dabaan) are a mountain range that rises steeply over the northwestern shore of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia. The highest peak in the range is 2,572 m high Mount Chersky, named after Russian explorer Ivan Chersky.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baikal Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.