Suggestions for Reading on Lake Baikal

(English Language)

Don Belt, “Russia’s Lake Baikal: The World’s Great Lake,” National Geographic, vol. 181, no. 6 (June 1992), 2-39.

Nicholas Breyfogle, “At the Watershed: 1958 and the Beginnings of Lake Baikal Environmentalism,” Slavonic and East European Review 93, no. 1 (2015): 147-180.

-----, “The Fate of Fishing in Tsarist Russia: The Human-Fish Nexus in Lake Baikal” Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 1-29.

-----,“‘Another Voice from God’: An Orthodox Sermon on Christianity, Science, and Natural Disaster,” in Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Source Book on Lived Religion, ed., Heather Coleman (Indiana University Press, 2014), 95-106.

A. Freidberg and L. Nikolaeva, TheBarguzin Reservation (Moscow, 1973).

Marshall Goldman, The Spoils of Progress: Environmental Pollution in the Soviet Union (Boston: MIT Press, 1972), chapter 6 (pp. 177-210).

Paul Josephson, The New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), chapter 5 (pp. 163-203).

Donald R. Kelley, ‘Environmental Policy-Making in the USSR: The Role of Industrial and Environmental Interest Groups’, Soviet Studies, 28, October 1976, pp. 570–89.

M. M. Kozhov, Lake Baikal and its life (The Hague, Junk, 1963).

OlʹgaMikhaĭlovnaKozhova; L. R.Izmestʹeva; M. M.Kozhov, Lake Baikal: evolution and biodiversity (Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 1998).

The Lake Baikal Region in the Twenty-first Century: A Model of Sustainable Development or Continued Degradation? (A Comprehensive Program of Land Use Policies for the Russian Portion of the Lake Baikal Region (Davis Associates, 1993).

John Lowenhardt, Decision Making in Soviet Politics, New York, 1981, pp. 70–77.

Peter Matthiessen, Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia (SanFrancisco: Sierra Club, 1992).

Peter Thomson, Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Valentin Rasputin, Siberia, Siberia (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), chapter 3 (pp. 119-178).

-----, Farewell to Matyora (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1979) [novel about the Angara River].

-----, Siberia on Fire(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1989), pp. 187-201.

Mark Sergeev, The Wonders and Problems of Lake Baikal, trans. Sergei Sumin (Moscow, 1989).

Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (Summer 2013). Special Forum on Lake Baikal. Includes:

  • Vera Kuklina, “Introduction: Baikal Issues under Persistent State Care” (pp. 30-32).
  • Gerelma B. Dugarova and Victor N. Bogdanov, “The Influence of Environmental Restrictions on the Socio-Economic Development of the Lake Baikal Region (pp. 33-47).
  • Natalia Luzhkova, “Ecotourism Development in the Nature Reserves of Lake Baikal” (pp. 48-61).
  • Irina N. Bilichenko, “Tunka National Park: Problems and Prospects” (pp. 62-71).
  • Vera Kuklina, “The Construction of Homeland among Buriats in Irkutsk” (pp. 72-87).

Sondra Venable, Protecting Lake Baikal: Environmental Policy Making in Russia’s Transition(Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag, 2008).

Douglas Weiner, A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection form Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), chapter 16 (pp. 355-373).

A. Zlobin, The Baikal Meridian (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2005 (1959)).

Baikal Ice Live Sound.