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Deterioration of the coastal environment of Lake Baikal is an issue of the day, which has been caused by the ongoing significant changes in the coastal benthic community, accommodating most of the endemic species of the lake inhabit. In-depth integrated studies of the coast and nearshore waters of the lake are required to specify the causes of these changes. The paper presents a geographic information system developed by the authors to support research into human impact on the environment of the coastal zone of Baikal Lake. The system is realized as a web geo-portal in the Internet and it allows the researcher to gen erate a common base of thematic and cartographical data within the project framework, as well as to perform start-up of Inter net services to tackle the challenges of geoprocessing and a comprehensive data analysis. The open architecture of the developed geoportal allows to expand its functionality by addition of the new services which are available both locally on the geoportal server, and far off on other servers. The supported standards in the field of geoinfor matics benefit the interoperability of the program systems realizing functions of the analysis and processing of geodata. A spe cific feature of the developed geoportal is an opportunity provided to users to independently operate with their data structures, and also to adjust the start of geoprocessing services, including those that require connection with the «Academician V. M. Matrosov» computing power cluster at the Irkutsk supercomputer center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science». During the project implementation, the filling of geoportal with thematic and spatial data on results of the conducted research was carried out. The collected data allow to obtain integrated indicators containing information on the anthropogenic influences on the en vironment within a certain time interval.