The Company conducted The Clean Baikal Shores, an environmental campaign covering offshore strips of the lake, the Circum–Baikal Railway, and the settlement of Tankhoy.
Currently, all wastewater generated by Russian Railways’ infrastructure in the Central Zone of Lake Baikal Protected Areas undergoes pre-treatment. As part of the Eastern Operating Domain development, the Company continues its efforts to prevent the pollution of the Baikal basin water courses.
Russian Railways is bringing into life the Action Plan developed jointly with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to protect Lake Baikal’s natural territory during the construction and upgrade of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Railway infrastructure.
2021 highlights:
The Company put in place benchmark environmental protection procedures for facilities located in the Central Zone of Lake Baikal Protected Areas, including the development of a regulatory framework and a monitoring system
The Baikal-M digital module to monitor and accumulate environmental data passed the testing stage. We deploy mobile units to continuously monitor the environment around the construction site in the Baikal territory. The monitoring data go straight to digital systems operated by the Russian Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment. This testifies the environmental transparency of Russian Railways
The East Siberian Railway saw a new industrial environmental laboratory launched in Severobaikalsk
Video cameras were installed in the Central Zone of Lake Baikal Protected Areas to monitor construction in real time
Containers were installed for separate waste collection at railway stations and transport stops, on the territory of the Slyudyanskoye Lake and Shamansky Cape regional natural monuments, and on construction sites
