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Great Baikal Trail

These projects often take place in protected areas of the lake, such as Pribaikalsky National Park, Zabaikalsky National Park, Baikal Nature Reserve, Barguzin Nature Reserve, and many more areas.

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At the same time, two organizations – the Federation of Sports Tourism and Mountaineering of the Republic of Buryatia and Earth Island Institute's Baikal Watch in San Francisco, USA – were awarded a joint grant from the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation for the an exchange program to share experience in trail construction.

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In the spring, GBT organized courses to help young people develop the practical knowledge and skills necessary to become a crew leader, which they would have to demonstrate at the GBT seminar in Listvyanka that May.

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However, the modern idea of the Great Baikal Trail was brought up in 1997 by Oleg K. Gusev, Russian writer, photographer and scientist – who worked at the Barguzin Nature Reserve for over thirty years and was instrumental in forming the Baikal-Lensky Reserve.

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In the summer of 2003, the first six teams of volunteers began work on trail construction with the support of the Baikal Nature Reserve, Zabaikalsky National Park, the community organization "Ust’e" from the village Bolshoe Goloustnoe, the club “LAT” from the city of Ulan-Ude, and the NGO "GRIN" School of Tourist-Environmental Education of Severobaikalsk.

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