Asweja lake

This article covers Lake Asweja in Belarus. There is a lake in Lithuania called Asveja .

Asweja lake
Sunset over the lake with the reed banks
Geographical location	Verkhnyadswinsk Raion in Woblasz Vitebsk ( Belarus )
Tributaries	Vydrinka
Drain	Degtyarovka Canal
Places on the shore	Azweja
Data
Coordinates	56 ° 3 '9 "  N , 28 ° 9' 6"  O Coordinates: 56 ° 3 '9 "  N , 28 ° 9' 6"  E
Altitude above sea level	129.8  m
surface	52.8 km²
Maximum depth	7.5 meters
Middle deep	2.0 meters
particularities	large mobile island, wide belts of reeds

This view of Lake Asweja in the evening light of late summer 2010 shows the heavy vegetation in the shallow lake areas

View over open water to the north

The Lake Osveya ( "See Asweja of" white Russian возера Асвейскае or возера Асьвейскае ; Russian озеро Освея or Освейское озеро ; Latvian Asveja ) in the far north Belarus is square kilometers with an area of 52.8, a length of 11.4 km and a width 7.8 km after the Naratsch, the second largest lake in the country. It lies in the Verkhnyadswinsk district of the Vitebskaya Woblasz in the drainage area of the Drissa .

Except for areas with a water depth of more than 3 meters, the eutrophic shallow water lake is almost completely overgrown with aquatic plants. In the north and northeast it is bordered by a reed belt 350 to 400 m wide , which offers good breeding conditions for birds. In the lake there is a 5 km² large drifting island, which is currently in the west and which is steadily reducing the water surface due to its areal growth. It is not shown on all maps. The island, which is uninhabited by people and has been designated a protected area, is largely in a solid, accessible state. Wolves and elk, which they reach via a shallow ford, find refuge from hunters in their dense vegetation. During the times of the Soviet Union, one of the most successful kolkhozes in the Asweja district was located on it .

More than 15 brooks and the Vydrinka river provide the inflow of water, while the outflow is via the Degtyarovka Canal. In recent years the lake has increasingly lost its function as a habitat for fish and nesting birds due to the sinking water level. In addition to a hydropower plant on the Degtyarovka Canal, the water loss may also be caused by peat extraction near the lake.

Web links

Commons : Asweja Lake  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ English-language page about the lake on the belarustourism.by portal. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2011 ; Retrieved June 2, 2013 .