Buzha
About the lake
- Area: 452 ha
- Location
- 7 км северо-западнее Браслава, у д. Крюки
- Operator
- Браславские озера
Lake Buzha is located in the Braslav District of the Vitebsk Region, 7 km north-west of Braslav, within Braslav Lakes National Park.
The lake covers 4.18 km² and reaches a maximum depth of 9.1 m (average 3.7 m). It is about 3.42 km long and up to 1.72 km wide. The shallows are narrow and sandy. The shores are elevated, sandy-pebbly and stony, covered with scrub and sparse woodland. The basin is dammed and elongated from south-west to north-east; the greatest depths lie along the western shore.
It is linked by channels to lakes Savonar, Raka and Chekut. 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
According to published sources, the lake is home to pike, perch, bream, roach, rudd, burbot, carp, crucian carp, tench and grass carp and other species.
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