First Forest Fires in Siberia

Snow is almost gone almost everywhere, and it means that the danger of forest fires is back. Every summer vast areas of Siberia and Russia are covered with smoke from huge fires surrounding cities. Entire villages burn to ground if they appear on the way of fire. Usually forests burn because someone has thrown a burning cigarette.

A special project has been started to monitor forest fires on the Internet: http://fires.kosmosnimki.ru. This is a current snapshot of the situation.

As you can see, the worst situation is right near Baykal. A state of emergency has been declared in that region: more than 10,000 hectares of forest burn there with over 70 individual fires. 

Siberia Webcams

There is a bunch of high-quality real-time streaming webcams in Siberia. A great source for them is a website of a Russian internet provider called TTK. Right now they have around 30 webcams in different cities from Ekaterinburg to Irkutsk and Listvyanka (overlooking Baikal lake) and the ski resort at Sheregesh.

Since the website is all in Russian, here is a full list of webcams in English:

Anzhero-Sudzhensk webcam (small miners' town not far from Kemerovo)
Barabinsk webcam (small town about 500 km west from Novosibirsk)
Barnaul webcam (city about 200 km south from Novosibirsk)
Divnogorsk webcam (ski resort near Krasnoyarsk)

4 webcams in Ekaterinburg:
1, downtown, central park, zoo

Irkutsk webcam
Listvyanka, Baikal webcam
Kemerovo webcam
Krasnokamenk webcam (don't really know where it is)
Leninsk-Kuznetsky webcam (miners town 300 km south from Kemerovo)
Novoaltaysk webcam (town near Barnaul)

7 webcams are in Novosibirsk:
Downtown Novosibirsk webcam (Lenin square)
Bridges and traffic: 1, 2, 3
Zoo webcams: polar bears, orangutans, colobus family

Altay camping webcam
Solikamsk webcam (town not far from Ekaterinburg)
Tomsk webсam

4 webcams in Chita:
1, 2, 3, 4

Sheregesh webcam (popular ski resort 600 km from Novosibirsk)