Svir
About the lake
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Lake Svir is located in the Myadel District of the Minsk Region.
The lake covers 22.28 km² and reaches a maximum depth of 8.7 m (average 4.7 m). It is about 14.1 km long and up to 2.3 km wide. Down to 4 m the bottom is sandy and sandy-pebbly, with sapropel below that. The western shores are high, while the eastern ones are low and boggy. The lake lies on the border with the Grodno region.
The Smolka and Bolshoy Perekop rivers flow in, and the Svirytsa River flows out.
Fish
According to published sources, the lake is home to bream, pike, roach, perch, ide, bleak, tench and burbot. Bream and pike make up the core of the population; the lake is stocked with crucian carp, carp and eel.
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