About the book: 2020 / Kim Nikolaevich Balkov is the author of about thirty books, laureate of the Great Literary Prize of Russia and the State Prize of the Republic of Buryatia. The novel "Baikal - the Sacred Sea" is based on the construction of the Circum-Baikal Railway during the Russian-Japanese War. These events had an equally tragic impact on the fate of the sacred lake and all the people of Russia.