Yelno
About the lake
- Area: 44 ha
- Location
- 3 км северо-западнее Браслава
- Operator
- Браславские озера
Lake Yelno is located in the Braslav District of the Vitebsk Region, 3 km north-west of Braslav, within Braslav Lakes National Park.
The lake covers 0.46 km² and reaches a maximum depth of 6.1 m. It is about 1.61 km long and up to 0.5 km wide. The shallows are narrow and sandy. The basin slopes in the east and south rise 10–13 m and are covered with pine forest. Beyond the shallows the bottom is covered with sapropel silt, and aquatic vegetation grows down to a depth of 2–2.5 m.
Five streams flow into the lake, including one from Lake Berezhye, and a stream flows out in the north into Lake Strusto. 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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