Valdai lake description and photo - Russia - North-West: Novgorod region (Topic)

Valdai lake description and photos - Russia - North-West: Novgorod region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Novgorod land is rich in sights. One of them is Valdai Lake. In terms of water purity and uniqueness, it is put on a par with Lake Baikal. The purity of the water is due to the glacial nature of the origin. The lake is spread over an area of almost two thousand hectares, the lake stretches for ten kilometers in length and seven kilometers in width. Compared to other lakes in the Valdai Upland, the lake is small, its average depth is about fifteen meters, but there are places where the depth reaches fifty two meters. Not a single lake on the Novgorod land has such depths.

Many islands rise from the water surface of Valdai Lake. The largest of them are Ryabinovy and Berezovy, which received their names because of the trees growing on them. These islands divide the water surface of the lake into Dolgoborodsky and Valdai reaches.

Sufficient depth makes the lake open for navigation, which lasts from early May to late November. The rest of the time, the water of the lake is held together by ice. The navigable canal makes it possible to get to the neighboring lake with the interesting name Dinner. The canal was dug back in the middle of the nineteenth century. Previously, instead of a canal, there was a narrow rivulet Fedoseevka, no more than one and a half meters long.

Primordial forests grow on the hillsides of the lake, and sandy beaches descend to the water. Many springs flowing from the bottom of the lake provide it with clear clear water. The very name of the lake speaks about it. It is translated into Russian as "white or light".

Low flow rate and significant amount of water, the complete renewal of which is possible only once every forty years, makes it possible to classify the lake as a standing water body. This also influenced the ichthyofauna of the lake. In the lake you can catch on a float rod, mainly perch, roach, ruff no more than twenty centimeters long. Larger fish are found much less frequently. But this does not interfere with the active fishing, which is carried out by amateur fishermen and entrepreneurs. The total production is forty tons per year, one third of which is organized fishing by entrepreneurs.

The purity of the lake, the untouched nature and the relative distance from the bustle of the world attracted monks to the islands. In the middle of the seventeenth century, Patriarch Nikon founded a monastery on Ryabinovy Island, in the image and likeness of the monastery on Athos. This is how the Iversky Monastery, an architectural monument of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arose. The monastery had a great influence not only on Lake Valdai and its surroundings. In fact, it turned into a center of spirituality, education, printing, the birthplace of new crafts and their development. And the lake received another name - Holy. Currently, the monastery is restoring its former grandeur. Every day, bells ringing over the water, calling the faithful to prayer, hundreds of pilgrims gather under the snow-white walls and silver domes. In early 2008, Alexy II consecrated the monastery.

One of the attractions of Valdai Lake is the Bells Museum. It is located in a rotunda church built for the Russian Empress Catherine II. The museum displays bells from all over the Russian Federation. In addition to the bells themselves, the museum contains unique information about the technology of their production, about the art of bell ringing. Some bells can still delight museum visitors with the indescribable beauty of their sound.

Valdai Lake occupies a worthy place in the blue necklace that form the lakes of the Valdai Upland.

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