Russia Pictures

	Lake baikal by night		Lake Baikal, one of the most fascinating lakes in the world. Water clean enough to drink, freezes cold enough to lay train tracks over it in winter, deepest and oldest in the world and scenic to boot!		A statue of the ever-present Lenin in the Siberian capital, Irkutsk.
	A Buddhist temple in Siberia, where the first cousins of the Mongols live and have brought their religion with them.		Another shot of this Buddhist temple.		World's largest Lenin head, located in Ulaan Ude, also near Lake Baikal in Siberia.
	Buddhist prayer wheels around the property of the Buddhist temple...spin the wheel and the prayer ascends to the heavens.		Siberia is filled with forests, and the Buryats (Mongol first cousins) use this huge supply of wood for their buildings.		Another shot of the wooden constructions in this outdoor ethnography museum, just off the shores of Lake Baikal.