Lake Shchuchye description and photo - Russia - St. Petersburg: Komarovo (Topic)

Lake Shchuchye description and photo - Russia - St. Petersburg: Komarovo. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Shchuchye Lake nature reserve is located in the village of Komarovo on the Karelian Isthmus. Its length is 1.1 km, width - 0.6 km.

Lake Shchuchye ("hauki jarvi", Fin.) Gained its fame long before it appeared on Russian territory. Several centuries ago, the area next to the lake was part of the Swedish royal park Hauki-jarvi, the game caught here was delivered to the king's court in Stockholm. The age of the local swamps, which include the Shchuchye Lake, is about 5 thousand years old.

Previously, this lake was very fishy. There were golden and amber pike, trout and roach here. The water here is very clean and close to drinking in quality. The lake is of glacial origin, it is located between the kame hills in the basin, has a length of more than a kilometer and a width of 750 m. The area of the lake's mirror is 53 hectares.

From the eastern side, a peninsula juts into the lake for 300 m, which the lake divides into reaches. The shores of the lake are sandy or peaty. The shallowest, the Southern reach, is swamped and overgrown with reeds. The average depth of the lake is 2-2.5 m, in the deepest place - 2.9 m. The rapidly warming waters and sandy bottom of the lake attract a large number of tourists in summer. In winter there is active ice fishing.

The GGI Institute used these territories as a research site for geographic and hydrological research.

The lake belongs to specially protected areas (natural monument, reserve). The Komarovsky necropolis is located a kilometer away. The former dacha of Academician N.N. Petrov, founder of the Oncological Institute in the village of Pesochny.

Parking and movement of cars, making fires, littering the territory, damaging vegetation, walking pets, construction, contact with wild animals, felling, horticulture and gardening are prohibited on the territory of the reserve.

The boundaries of the protected area pass through the forest areas of the Molodezhnoye and Komarovskoye forestry, coinciding in the northeast with the border of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. The total area of the reserve is more than 1000 hectares.

According to the results of a comprehensive ecological survey of the Shchuchye Lake reserve, carried out in 2009, it was found that the hills chaotically scattered over the territory are a complex of a unique water-glacial relief, which is composed of yellowish sands with inclusions of pebbles and gravel. It is a cam type of terrain. Its age belongs to the Paleolithic (more than 10 thousand years BC).

From the southeast of Shchuchye Lake flows the Shchukin stream, which is a tributary of the Sestra River. The Black Stream flows into the stream from the north, which originates in two small lakes (Chernye Lakes) located a kilometer from Shchuchye.

Bypassing Shchuchye Lake on the right side, you can get on the road to the Lammin-suo reserve ”(Lake bog), where the scientific station of the Hydrological Institute is located.

The administration of the village of Komarovo is engaged in landscaping and landscaping of the territory of the southeastern part of the shore of Lake Shchuchye in order to streamline the recreation area and preserve the unique natural landscape of this area. Thanks to their efforts, the carriageway was increased with an asphalt pavement, temporary parking lots for vehicles were organized, and a path for walking in the western direction was arranged. It is part of the so-called "health path" that runs along the coast to the west and southeast, parallel to the road to Shchuchye Lake, special grounds for variety and recreation were created while preserving the existing plantings, decorative sculptures and flower girls, elements of informative design were installed.

On June 3, 2011, the Governor of St. Petersburg, together with the district administration, as well as representatives of the Committee for Nature Management, held a grand opening of the reserve and accepted the work carried out according to the project for the improvement of the southeastern coast of Shchuchye Lake.

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