New Year celebration by Buryati villagers living in Selenga in the Kabansk region along the shore at Russia’s Lake Baikal. They live on the eastern shore and are descendants of Asiatic tribes, with Buddhist cultural influence.
Crowned the “Jewel of Siberia”, Baikal is the world’s deepest lake, and the biggest lake by volume, holding 20% of the world’s fresh water. In the winter, the lake 31,722 square meter surface is entirely frozen with ice averaging 2 meters thick.