Cargo transportation on Lake Baikal

Transportation of cargo on Lake Baikal by the courts of the East Siberian Company. In connection with the construction of trunk volume of traffic each year will increase, but at present transport capacity Rechnikov limited. In addition, the operation of vessels on Lake Baikal prevent storms and icing. Virtually navigate around the Baikal begins June 5-10, ends in early November. Ground avtozimnikov not. To ensure uninterrupted delivery of goods in the winter, it was decided to pave the way for the time of ice on Lake Baikal from the village of Ust-Barguzin towards Davsha - Tompa-Baikal - Kurla - Nizhneangarsk. In June 1975 commissioned a new expedition ship sea-type "Mercury" with a displacement of 262 m. The vessel is equipped to conduct hydrological, hydrochemical and hydro-biological work on Lake Baikal. At the end of 1975, work began on the ship. To study the water exchange through the Small Sea Olkhonskiye gate during the period of strong winds from the ship were put deepwater moorings. Currents were measured using direct-printing decks. Were carried out on the thermal recording secular sections are made of hydrochemical, surveyed the ice conditions, etc. In 1959, the epicenter of the quake was located under water in the middle of the lake. Here the bottom of the lake went down by almost 15 meters. On Lake Baikal are well preserved traces of formerly earthquakes. It bays Ambassadors rubbish, rubbish Istoksky, faults on the slopes of the Baikal Range on the slopes of the Hamar-Daban and many others. Based on years of research bottom topography using sonar is made large-scale map of Lake Baikal. These same materials used to compile a new navigation map of Lake Baikal. Gravimetric surveys, deep seismic sounding and exploratory drilling for oil revealed that at the bottom of Lake Baikal during its existence has accumulated more than 6 square meters of bottom sediments. When particle size of their study revealed that under the top 10-12-foot layer of silt are sandy soils. It was also established that the rate of sediment accumulation in the open part of Lake Baikal, on average, about 4 cm per millennium.