The unique lake Ulahan-Kuel is one of the most protected natural areas of Yakutia, it has the status of republican significance. It is located in the northeastern part of the Žigansky ulus. The total area is 11046 ha. It is unique in its origin water body, which has a special nature protection, scientific, cultural, aesthetic, […]
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The largest lake in the Rostov region is Manych-Gudilo – relic, tectonic, the so-called lake-saucer. The lake of more than 150 km in length, and up to 10-15 km (in some places) in width; its depth – 4 m or more. On the shores of Lake Park is bordered with Kalmykia, Stavropol Territory, the proletarian […]
Size: 4580 km2 Maximum depth: 30 m Rybinsk reservoir is a large reservoir on the Volga river and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa. Located mainly in the Yaroslavl region, in the North-West, partly also in Tver and Vologda regions. Formed in the late 30’s-early 40-ies of XX century wodoodporne structures Rybinsk hydroelectric station, located in […]
Area: 2,420 km2 The greatest depth of 34 meters. Zeya reservoir – dam on the Zeya River in the Amur region of Russia. Zeya hydroelectric station dam formed in 1974-1980, respectively. Reservoir extends upstream from the Zeya hydroelectric dam in Zeya, over a length of 40 kilometers within Tukuringra ridge is a narrow body of […]
Area: 5 426 – 5 470 km2 Maximum depth: 150 m Bratsk reservoir – a reservoir in the Irkutsk region of Russia, founded on the river Angara in the result of construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, the second on volume of the reservoir in the world. On the banks of the city of […]
Area: 9700 km2 Maximum depth: 127 m Onega lake is a lake in the North-West of the European part of the Russian Federation located on the territory of Karelia, the Leningrad and Vologda regions. The second largest lake in Europe after Ladoga. Belongs to the basin of the Baltic sea Atlantic ocean. The lake area […]
Area: 1400-2000 km2 Maximum depth: 7 m. The Chany lake – closed salt lake in Russia, located in Barabinsk lowland on the territory of the Novosibirsk region, the largest lake in Western Siberia. The lake is located on the territory of five districts of the Novosibirsk region: Sivinskogo, Barabinsk, Janovskeho, Kopynskoho and Chistoozernoe. It got […]
Area: 4070 km2 Maximum depth: 11 m Lake Khanka is located on the border of the Primorsky region of Russia and the Heilongjiang province of China. Khanka is the largest freshwater reservoir in the far East. The area 4070 km2 (with an average water level), length 95 km, dominated by the depth of 1-3 m, […]
Area: 4 560 km2 Maximum depth: 26 m Lake Taimyr on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation, is part of Taimyr nature reserve. The second largest after lake Baikal in the Asian part of Russia. Taimyr is the most Northern in the world this large lake is its extreme Northern […]
Area: 735 km2 Maximum depth: 10 meters Lake Pyasino – lake of glacial origin in Russia, in the South-West North-Siberian lowland in the Krasnoyarsk territory, approximately 20 km from Norilsk. Freezes at the beginning of October, opened from ice in late June – early July. Physical features. Flows from the lake only the Pyasina river, […]
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