Lake Syalyava

Lake Syalyava lies in the Krupki district of the Minsk region, in the Syalyava national landscape reserve, about 20 km from Krupki. It is one of the larger lakes of the region: a water surface of about 15 km², a length of up to 14.4 km, a width of 2.5–3 km and a shoreline of roughly 44 km.

The maximum depth is 17.6 m and the mean depth 6.3 m, with a water volume of about 95 million m³. The lake is fed by five streams and two small rivers; a canal links it to the Chudovets River, and in the north it drains into the Abida.

For anglers Syalyava offers a varied water body: about 19 fish species have been recorded, and the reserve allows fishing to be combined with time in nature.