On November 23, the premiere of the film “Planet Baikal” took place in the House of Culture of Moscow State University. The event organizers are the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal (FPLB) with the support of the Moscow State University, the Corporation “Roscosmos”, the Russian Geographical Society and the project “Save Baikal”.
The film is dedicated to the unique experiment which took place in the course of the international expedition “Mirs at Lake Baikal” - a three-level synchronized measurements of methane emissions arising from the destruction of the gas hydrate fields at the bottom of Lake Baikal. “The film “Planet Baikal” is impressive. This is a film firstly about Baikal and about the scientists who study it. The authors of the film managed to put together information on all the complex scientific processes that were carried out during the expedition “Mirs at Lake Baikal”, - said the Chairman of the FPLB Board of Trustees M. Slipenchuk presenting the film.
“For me the biggest importance is the overall result of the expedition – the study of the ecological status of Lake Baikal – M. Slipenchuk told to the audience. – The project involved a huge number of scientists and researchers who are directly engaged in biology, biochemistry, geology, geophysics. We selected a huge number of samples. New species, the deposits of gas hydrates were discovered. Baikal – is a unique natural laboratory and scientists will learn and explore it for many years.”
"I am sure the film will find its audience, and I think people will apprehend Baikal in a different way. Baikal – is a whole planet. The space researches show how man is small, that he is a grain of sand compared to Lake Baikal and the Earth. This awareness should lead to careful and respect for nature. Human activity can cause the greenhouse effect, global warming, but do not forget that the planet is living on their cycles and their own laws, which we can not resist”, - said M. Slipenchuk.
At the film presentation the FPLB awarded the participants of the expedition “Mirs at Lake Baikal”: pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin and operator of the film “Planet Baikal” Vyacheslav Krasakov by the marks “Hydronauts of Baikal”. Also the exhibition “Baikal. Kingdom of water and ice” of Olga Kamenskaya was presented to the guests and participants of the conference. Hero of Russia, pilots of deep manned submersibles “Mir” Anatoly Sagalevich and Evgeny Chernyaev, Dean of the Faculty of Geography of the Moscow State University, Academician Nikolai Kasimov also took part in the event.

The exhibition inauguration: M.Slipenchuk, N.Kasimov, O.Kamenskaya

Hero of Russia, pilot of deep manned submersibles “Mir” A.Sagalevich

The film “Planet Baikal” makers

Hero of Russia, cosmonaut F.Yurchikhin

Award of F.Yurchikhin