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\"\"<\/a>25 Bates students spent almost three weeks in a tiny Siberian village, right on the shores of Lake Baikal.\u00a0 On the day we prepared to leave residents of the village were feverishly digging potatoes, in advance of a winter storm (on September 25) in the forecast.\u00a0 We made it back to Irkutsk, the regional capital, via hydrofoil – despite high seas and snow.<\/p>\n

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Bolshie Koty, the village where Bates students lived and studied for three weeks, is nestled in a small valley where one of the 365 streams flowing into Baikal cuts through mountains and forest.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Island of Olkhon is situated about half way up Baikal; the lake itself is almost 700 km. long, and near Olkhon is more than a mile deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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