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Mapping the areas which build the ecological framework is based on a theoretical approach, a functional separation method and a three-level classification of the ecological framework elements of a region previously developed by the author. We considered a region is as part of the southern regions of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Buryatia, the Zabaykalsky Krai and the Irkutsk oblast) within the catchment area of Lake Baikal and the northern regions of Mongolia. The methodology consists in a comprehensive analysis of the three most important target components in the organiza tion of the ecological framework of the region: protection of the Baikal geosystem; landscape and biological diversity protection; providing comfortable living conditions for the population of the region and the state of its physical health. Changes in environ mental legislation, in particular, the adoption of new federal laws and decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation, the expansion of the study area, and the experience in creating digital maps of the “Ecological Atlas of the Lake Baikal Basin” (2015): natural geosystems, resilience of geosystems to anthropogenic impacts, recommended use of landscapes; land use; land and forest resources, etc., this all provides general methodological concept for the preparation of a series of maps of the eco logical framework of the Baikal region. The territories that create the ecological framework were determined by comparing and analyzing the structure and functional features of landscapes and land uses using layers of digital map series: Landscape of the Lake Baikal Basin; Modern Land Use; Protected Areas, etc.