Top 8 Lakes in Vladimir

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In the east, near the round peninsula, the Shitka River flows out of the Black Lake, which flows into the Klyazma River, and on which Pokrov stands. To the north of the lake, irrigation canals branch off and the village of Maslyanye Gorochki is located, where there was an oil mill that produced mustard oil for the buns that were delivered to the royal table. In former times, the current peninsula was an island on which a church stood. Since 1711, by decree of Peter the Great, the "fishing grounds" of Lake Lankovskoye were given to the Holy Vvedensky Island Monastery, although the lake itself and its shores remained in the possession of the princes Golitsyn. The only nameless stream flows into the lake, flowing from the neighboring Lake Vvedenskoye. In 1863, the lake was already called Black, which is recorded in the "Lists of populated areas of the Russian Empire." The origin of this name is explained in at least two ways. According to legend, during the Time of Troubles, the local residents took refuge on the island, but the approaching Polish detachment hacked some to death, drowned others, and burned the pine forest around the lake. The black ashes determined the name of the reservoir, as well as the island: Black Island. According to another version, the water of the Black Lake is colored with humic acids and therefore dark.

A vanished village, the ruins of an ancient church and a picturesque pond on the Tumka River, surrounded by pristine nature.

A spring with excellent water near a pond in the village of Yakovlevo, next to the chapel of Elijah the Prophet, built approximately between 1900 and 1917.

The name of the reservoir is of Finno-Ugric origin, but the local population knows this lake better under the name Kazennoye. Lake Suekhra is a forest, picturesque, quite clean and the most important lake in the recreational sense of the Sobinsky district. The lake is of ancient valley origin, originally formed as an oxbow lake of the Klyazma River, but has long lost contact with it. The length is about 1 km, the width is 300 m, the maximum depth is 2.5 m, the average is 1.5 m. The water is clean, transparent, odorless. The banks are gentle, sandy, in places swampy. The bottom is covered with a thick layer of sapropel. In the coastal zone, black alder and birch forests with an admixture of spruce, aspen, pine predominate. On the shores of the lake, several fire pits and permanent rest areas are arranged.

The origin of this lake still remains a mystery! The lake is considered to be dying, but it dies in an unconventional way, it does not become swampy as usual from the bottom from the shore to the center, but is covered with a powerful grass-moss cover (raft) that does not stick to the bottom. On the powerful raft grows undergrowth of small pines and birches, which float on the water like a kind of trampoline, it is dense and strong enough to withstand the weight of a person closer to the shore. A unique feature of the lake are the floating islands, these are fragments of raft that have broken away from the shore along well-trodden paths. The islands float under the influence of the wind on large trees (like on sails). ⠀ The water in the lake is unusually clean, transparent and soft, it is popular with local residents and according to them, the lake has a depth of more than 25 m.

Zyuglinskoye Lake is the name of a pond on the Suzha River. In high water, above the deep valley part of the pond, about 750 m long and 150-160 m wide, a large reservoir with an area of about 2 square kilometers is formed. The banks of the deep part of the pond are covered with forest, and the far part of the pond is surrounded by forest-lined swamps and meadows. This habitat attracts many birds: both hunting and protected in this area; both nesting here and stopping to rest during seasonal migrations.

Lake Senga was formed at the confluence of two rivers, Senga and Malaya Senga, and compared to other Senezh lakes, it is quite deep, reaching a depth of 28 meters. On the northern shore is the tourist center of the hunting farm "Dynamo", and on the southern shore is the picturesque tract of Seng-Ozero, located on the site of an ancient village. In 1970, archaeologists discovered a site of an ancient man of the Neolithic era on the shore of Seng-Ozero. During excavations, they found flint chips, pieces of ceramics, a scraper, an arrowhead, arrows, knives, and stone jewelry. There is a legend that in the 17th century, a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker stood on the shore of the lake, but in the spring of 1638, this church sank into the water.