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Exhibition of extraordinary photographs at the CMM

Listen to this article 17 May 2012. The exhibition entitled “Baikal – the kingdom of water and ice” was opened. The exhibition was prepared jointly by the Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk and the World Ocean Museum in Kaliningrad, which have been cooperating with the author of the photographs, Olga Kamenskaya, for several years. Over

ByTomasz Andrukajtis

Published: May 22, 2012 - 22:40

Updated: July 22, 2023 - 05:38

Exhibition of extraordinary photographs at the CMM

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17 May 2012. The exhibition entitled “Baikal – the kingdom of water and ice” was opened. The exhibition was prepared jointly by the Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk and the World Ocean Museum in Kaliningrad, which have been cooperating with the author of the photographs, Olga Kamenskaya, for several years.

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Over 70 extraordinary works depicting the beauty of frosty Russia in the Baikal region await those who decide to visit the museum. Among them, there are also true gems, which the author captured with her lens in the deepest lake in the world, called the “blue eye of Siberia”.

As CMM reports on its website:

“What is particularly stunning about Baikal is… the ice, which in such a form as on this Russian lake, does not occur anywhere in the world. Despite the harsh continental climate of Siberia, when the air temperature falls below -30°С, the lake, creating a specific microclimate, similar to that of the sea, reluctantly gives up the heat accumulated in the summer. In mid-January winter manages to cover the lake with ice, so that in March the thickness of the ice cap is 80 to 120 cm. The ice blocks create under the surface even 6 metres deep corridors where you can swim. Baikal ice seems to be black, however it is perfectly transparent and with a thickness of 1,5 m you can see the blackness of Baikal depths through it”.

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Olga Kamenskaya is interested in the unearthly beauty of the underwater world. She has spent time with her camera on land and underwater in many beautiful places on all continents – she has photographed the amazing underwater world of the White and Barents Seas, Norwegian fjords, volcanoes and bears in Kamchatka, pagodas and monasteries in Burma, turtles and sharks in the Galapagos, elephants and lions in Tanzania, whale sharks in Australia, pyramids and whales in Mexico, waterfalls and sea lions in Argentina, elephant seals and sea lions in South Georgia, penguins and icebergs in the Antarctic.

She has been to Baikal more than 10 times and it has become an inexhaustible subject for her… the kingdom of water and ice. The exhibition will run until 30 June 2012.

More info: kamenskaya-gallery.ru, cmm.pl and on facebook.

Photo: Jerzy Abramowicz

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Tomasz Andrukajtis

Editor-in-chief of the DIVERS24 portal and magazine. Responsible for obtaining, translating and developing content. He also supervises all publications. Achived his first diving certification – P1 CMAS, in 2000. Has a degree in journalism and social communication. In the diving industry since 2008.