Environmental monitoring of Lake Baikal

The total land area by category in 2013



Area, ha
500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 2500000


To view the percentage of lands of different categories for the selected area, click the corresponding area on the map.


Overall, in 2013 some insignificant redistribution of land between the categories took place within the Baikal Natural Territory. These changes affected all land categories: settlement lands (an increase by 2.5%), reserve lands (a reduction by 0.4%), agricultural lands (a reduction by 0.1%), industrial lands (an increase by 0.03%), specially protected lands (an increase by 0.01%), water reserve lands (a decrease by 0.003%), and forest reserve lands (a decrease by 0.001%).
The changes were mainly due to the inclusion of reserve lands in the agricultural land category.
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