Lacha lake
| Lacha Lake, Lacha | ||
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| Geographical location | Arkhangelsk Oblast ( Russia ) | |
| Tributaries | Swid , Kinema, Kowsha, Uchta, Tichmanga, Lekschma | |
| Drain | Onega | |
| Location close to the shore | Kargopol | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 61 ° 18 ' N , 38 ° 46' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 117 m | |
| surface | 334 km² | |
| length | 33 km | |
| width | 14 km | |
| volume | 0.55 km³ | |
| Maximum depth | 5.4 m | |
| Middle deep | 1.6 m | |
| Catchment area | 12,600 km² | |
The Lake Lacha (also briefly Latscha ; Russian озеро Лача , Ozero Latscha even Лаче , mountain pine ) is a 334 km² large lake in the northern part of the East European Plain in the European part of Russia .
General
It is located in the extreme southwest of Arkhangelsk Oblast and is 33 km long (in north-south direction) and up to 14 km wide, its largest lake.
The shores of the lake are flat and swampy, so that there are only several villages close to each other at its southeast end. The outflow of the lake is represented by the Onega in the north , on which the small town of Kargopol lies about five kilometers below the lake . Largest tributary of Latschasees is the opening into its southern end, from which about 50 km from Lake Vozhe coming swid . Other larger tributaries are (clockwise) on the southeast side Kinema and Kowscha, on the west side Uchta, Tichmanga and Lekschma.
The lake freezes over from November to May.
On the west side, a few kilometers away, the partly unpaved and poorly maintained regional road R1 leads from Arkhangelsk via Kargopol to the north-western part of the neighboring Vologda oblast in the direction of Wytegra around the lake.
use
Lake Lacha is part of a 100 km long inland waterway that leads from Kargopol up the Swid to the village of Gorka.
Fishing is carried out on Lake Laces . This is where up to 30% of the freshwater fish (mainly bream ) caught in Arkhangelsk Oblast come from .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lacha Lake in the State Water Directory of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ a b Article Lacha in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ^ List of Inland Waterways of the Russian Federation (confirmed by Order No. 1800 of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 19, 2002); on-line