The initiative to create the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal belongs to Chairman of the Fund Board of Trustees M. Slipenchuk, who voiced the concept of the future non-profit project on December 20, 2007. And on April 7, 2008 the Fund, the main objectives of which are to support the research projects aimed at the preservation of Lake Baikal, and facilitate the development of new environmental technologies, received the Certificate of Incorporation.
Since five years of the official activities many well-known scientists, politicians and public figures have become active partners of the Fund. For the undeniable achievements in scientific research and environmental education the FPLB is elected as a collective member of the Russian Geographical Society for the first time in the history. Social, professional and international recognition is expressed in tens of diplomas and appreciations that the Fund has received.
Over these years dozens of large-scale projects of federal and international level have been implemented. In addition to the famous three-year international research expedition “Mirs at Lake Baikal”, organized by the FPLB with the support of Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Geographic Society there were held several scientific expeditions in the north of Lake Baikal, in the basin of Selenga river, hydrographic and biological winter expedition at Baikal, a number of complex student expeditions.
Dozens of environmental action in the Baikal region are organized with the support and participation of the Fund: annual cleanups in Ulan-Ude on Baikal Day, in Baikal and Kabanskiy region of the Republic of Buryatia, many thousands of campaigns  like “Pure ice of Lake Baikal”, Charity Ecological Marathon "”Save Baikal by the whole world” at the central stadium of Buryatia, etc. Every year environmental camps in the North and Central Baikal work thanks to FPLB.
Dozens of Russian and international exhibition projects about the lake, organized by the Fund, were successfully held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Ulan Bator, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Monte Carlo, Geneva, Prague and other cities. several international scientific conferences and forums has been organized in Russia, France, Monaco, Mongolia and other countries.
Information portal of the FPLB leads among scientific and educational resources about Lake Baikal. At this popular web site there is a unique scientific information, all-Russian contest “100 Wonders of Baikal” was conducted last year, the vote “Famous people of Lake Baikal” is being prepared.
The FPLB published the collections of scientific articles “Environmental management: traditions and innovations”, “Patom crater”, “Baikal – the world treasure” and “Planet Baikal” (in two languages). The film of the Fund “To the Depths of Lake Baikal” participated in the competition program of three film festivals.
Congratulations to all of our friends and partners on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal!