INTERLUDE ON LAKE BAIKAL

LATE AFTERNOON

ON LAKE BAIKAL

TWO WOMEN & THEIR KNITTING

Listvyanka (Russia), USSR, 1984

Lake Baikal is famous as the "Gem of Siberia." I had been so keen to see it that I flew straight from Moscow to Irkutsk, the nearest big city, on my first trip to the USSR.

NASA has posted two striking images of Baikal from space, iced over, here.

More to come in RUSSIA REDUX