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Pokoyniki Cape

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The head office of the Baikalo-Lensky Nature Reserve, Solnechnaya weather station, is situated on Pokoyniki Cape. It was called Pokoiny (“quite”) because of permanent good and breathless weather.There is a path leading from the cape to the source of a great Siberian river – the Lena. The path goes along the Baikalsky Mountain Range, then turns to Solntsepad (lowland) and starts going up a steep stone slope. The Lena source itself is not far from the passover, in a dish-shaped valley overgrown with peat moss and dwarf willow.
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