Lake Ladoga is a lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, near the city of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest freshwater lake in Europe with a surface area of 18,135 km2, including an island area of 460 km2, and the second largest lake in Russia after Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is a tectonic fault-forming lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is located in the Siberian mountains of Russia, north of the Mongolian border, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast.
The Dancing Forest is a unique natural phenomenon located near the village of Rybachiy on the Curonian Spit in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The Dancing Forest is part of the Curonian Spit National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The spit itself is a narrow strip of land that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea, stretching across both Russia and Lithuania.
