Berezhye
About the lake
- Area: 212 ha
- Location
- Северо-западная окраина Браслава
- Operator
- Браславские озера
Lake Berezhye is located in the Braslav District of the Vitebsk Region, on the north-western outskirts of Braslav, within Braslav Lakes National Park.
The lake covers 1.93 km² and reaches a maximum depth of 8.2 m. It is about 2.2 km long and up to 1.4 km wide. The bottom is sandy in the shallows and covered with sapropel in deeper water. The eastern shore is high and sandy, the western basin slopes are forested, and the rest are ploughed.
It is linked by channels to lakes Svyatso, Zagnoyek and Yelno. The lake belongs to the Braslav group: several dozen lakes with a combined area of about 130 km², linked by channels and small rivers, most of them in the Druyka basin.
Fish
The species list for this particular lake is not given in open sources; for the Braslav Lakes as a whole, sources name zander, bream, roach, pike and eel.
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