Highest elevation lakes & reservoirs in Russia by altitude
This is a comparison for lakes within Russia > - Compared by Highest Altitude/Elevation in feet.Note: For some lakes, "Altitude/Elevation" data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 6 articles we have published for Russia lakes.
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Elevation in feet ![]() |
Lake description |
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Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia, Russia) |
1,496 ft | Also known as Lake Baykal, Sacred Sea, Pearl of Siberia, Blue Eye of Siberia, Galapagos of Russia Russia’s national treasure, Lake Baikal, is the world’s deepest lake and is our planet’s largest freshwater lake measured by water volume. Its bottom… |
Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Northern Caucases, Povolzhsky, Russia, Turkmenistan) |
-82 ft | Also known as Mazandaran Sea, Khazar Sea, Khvalyn Sea With the largest volume of any saltwater “lake” on earth, the Caspian Sea holds well over 62 billion acre-feet of saltwater. Many classify the Caspian… |