Reconstruction of Atmospheric Neutrinos with the Baikal Neutrino Telescope NT-96

We describe the track reconstruction procedure for events recorded with the Neutrino Telescope NT-96. After having identified 2 neutrino candidates close to the opposite zenith with the small prototype telescope NT-36, we present here results of the reconstruction of 5.3 x 10^6 muons, recorded with NT-96 during its first 18 days lifetime. We have separated 3 neutrino candidates, compared to 2.3 events expected from MC calculations.