Grigory I. Galazy's scientific contributions
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Publications (19)
Relief forms of lakes are collections of the bottom surface of them. The size of relief forms are conventionally divided into three categories: micro-, meso- and macro-relief. These also can distinguish between positive and negative forms of relief by their origins: the former is endogenous (related to the internal development of the earth), and th...
Alexander von Humboldt and Oscar Peschel, naturalists of the 19th century, conducted the research in Siberia, not having sufficient material to determine the origin of the Baikal Basin, which the depth and shape are very similar to those of fjords of Scandinavia. And then, they came to the conclusion that this body of water is also to be a former f...
According to many geological studies, the time when the Lake Baikal basin has filled with water was 20‒25 million years ago. Modern shape of Lake Baikal was, however, acquired relatively recently, it may be a few million years ago. Some geologists consider the occurrence of the lake basin to be in the Mesozoic period. There is a deviation between t...
In recent years the weather conditions of the Baikal region have been widely changed under the influence of greenhouse effect and desertification on the Northern hemisphere. In addition, reckless deforestation of the region accelerates the tendency. Nowadays scientists estimate at least 150 tributaries of Lake Baikal have lost, as compared with tho...
The mystery of Lake Baikal opens with the name. Who did name the lake "Baikal"? What does the name mean? Scientists assume that an inexistent Turkic aborigine "kurykane" gave the name to this ancient lake, and the meaning of "Baikal" is a lake of plentiful life. The first Russian discoverer of Lake Baikal is Kurbat Ivanov, who was a Cossack platoon...
Lakes and ponds are water bodies which show a slow transition. Hydrologists estimate them on earth at five million in number. Limnology is an independent complex science, using methods for studying the related sciences (e.g., hydrology, hydrobiology, hydrochemistry, physics, geology, climatology, biology, etc.) to solve the own problems. In 1936 in...
Neiston means organism groups living in the surface water layer. The first data on the neiston of Lake Baikal were obtained by Mazepova in 1957. She found an existence of microorganism community in 0‒10 cm stratum under ice. In Baikal the study of neiston has been organized in 1980s. The first result is the fact that populations of some orders of b...
This paper has two objections: (1) to show the brief outlines of benthic animals and plants of Lake Baikal, and, (2) to present the results from a comprehensive survey of the large collection of fossil branchiopods and a study on the allied species of the Recent Spinicaudata. The status of the Recent clam shrimp family Baikalolkhoniidae from Lake B...
This paper has two objections: (1) to show the brief outlines of benthic animals and plants of Lake Baikal, and, 2) to present the results from a comprehensive survey of the large collection of fossil branchiopods and a study on the allied species of the Recent Spinicaudata. The status of the Recent clam shrimp family Baikalolkhoniidae from Lake Ba...
Yasnitsky was the first scientist who made the "under-ice water bloom" of Lake Baikal clear in 1930, and who organized a long-term observation during several years there. Scientists were only surprised at the poorness of phytoplankton flora of Baikal by the time his great achievement was produced. In summer season when the lake ice has thawed out,...
The Baikal fauna and flora are characterized by endemism. The first zoogeographical assignment of Lake Baikal was made by Berg in 1910, and he named it "the Baikal subregion" among the Holarctic region. According to Dybowski, the current fauna of Lake Baikal is a complex of two independent faunas: one is the fauna composed of Baikal endemics, and t...
The Baikal seal Pusa sibirica (Gmelin, 1788) (also known as "nerpa") is one of the smallest seals; its adults grow to a length of about 1.3 m. They were mentioned scientifically in print as early as 1763. The adult coat is dark, with a silvery gray back and lighter yellowish gray belly. The Baikal seal is a representative of the order of pinnipeds...
Lake Baikal is the greatest reservoir of freshwater in the world. The lake freezes over in every midwinter. Its scale of destructive power produced by the upheaved ice at the lakeside is almost beyond imagining. To date, not a few scientists have studied how to cope with the situation, but there is often no way of the best dealing with it.
It can be gathered from what the local people named them that the ice forming processes in Lake Baikal are very complicated for us. For example, they have been called by such unique terms as "underwater ice", "bottom ice", "sokui", "shorokh", "lotus-leaf ice", "kolobovnik", "zaberegi", "salo", "shuga", "sklyanka", "ice surf", "splash ice", etc. Sno...
The history of navigation in Lake Baikal is more than 360 years long since 1643. In 1650 the first Trans-Baikal regular line started. A training school for navigation and geodesy was established in Irkutsk in 1754. Two steamships (tugboats) first appeared in the lake in 1844, but their powers were only 30‒50 hp. The most terrible ship accident in L...
Lake Baikal is the largest tank on earth of very fresh drinking water. About 20% of world freshwater stocks are always given purification here. Owing to shortage of freshwater at world level, the greater part of people on earth never meets their own demands for freshwater. Baikal is a unique lake in species diversity of its faunal and floral habita...
People may be rightly accused of having a self-centered view of the world. They are preoccupied both with themselves and with the effects they have on this planet. Such preoccupations are understandable and certainly have profound significance, but there is a danger that lessons to be learnt from the study of other living things or the wonder of na...
"Does the tunnel really exist between Lake Baikal and the Arctic Ocean?", "Did it actually happen that in the Genghis Khan period people could easily reach the other lakeside of Baikal on foot?", "Is it true that a small island crossed the lake during the past two centuries?", "Do there live in Baikal such great big animals as Nessie Monster in Sco...
Lake Baikal is the largest storage of pure drinking water in the world. In the present work "Baikal in Questions and Answers," we try to narrate on the wonderful nature to the readers of not only specialists in the easy and plain way for understanding. Data included here are results of long-term researches by our many colleagues who had been workin...
