Jump to content

Lake Nero

Coordinates: 57°9′53″N 39°26′12″E / 57.16472°N 39.43667°E / 57.16472; 39.43667
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Klamabost (talk | contribs) at 17:23, 22 June 2023. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

For other uses of "Nero", see Nero (disambiguation).
Lake Nero
Lake Nero in winter
Lake Nero is located in Yaroslavl Oblast
Lake Nero
Lake Nero
LocationYaroslavl Oblast
Coordinates57°9′53″N 39°26′12″E / 57.16472°N 39.43667°E / 57.16472; 39.43667
Lake typeeutrophic
Primary inflowsSara (Template:Lang-ru),[1] Ishnya (Template:Lang-ru), Kuchibosh (Template:Lang-ru), Mazikha (Template:Lang-ru), Varus (Template:Lang-ru),[2] Chucherka (Template:Lang-ru), Unitsa (Template:Lang-ru), Sula (Template:Lang-ru)[3]
Primary outflowsVeksa
Basin countriesRussia
Max. length13 km (8.1 mi)
Max. width8 km (5.0 mi)
Surface area51.7 km2 (20.0 sq mi)
Max. depth3.6 m (12 ft)
Islands2 (Levsky, Christmases)
SettlementsRostov

Lake Nero (Template:Lang-ru) is a shallow, highly eutrophic lake in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. The lake has an area of 54.4 km2, a maximum length of 13 km, width 8 km and depth 3.6 m. The bottom of the lake is covered with thick layer of silt sapropel (a sort of ooze used as fertilizer and for other purposes).

The lake is estimated to be about 500 thousand years old, making it one of a few pre-ice age lakes in central Russia.

The first people settled at the lake 6 thousand years ago. It is historically certain that the Merya people had their capital in Sarskoe Gorodishche on the southern shore of the lake. They named the lake Nero (meaning "silty", "marshland") or Kaovo ("place where gulls live").

In the 9th Century East Slavs came to the lake. They called the lake Rostovian Lake in the honor of town Rostov.

There are two significant islands, Lvovsky (Львовский, "Lvy [ru] Island"), also known as Lesny (Лесный, "Forest Island"), and Rozhdestvenskij (Рождественский, "Christmas Island"), also known as Gorodskoj (Городской, "Town Island"). The latter formed a pre-ice age monolith. The eight rivers that flow into Nero Lake are Sara (Template:Lang-ru), Ishnya (Template:Lang-ru), Kuchibosh (Template:Lang-ru), Mazikha (Template:Lang-ru), Varus (Template:Lang-ru), Chucherka (Template:Lang-ru), Unitsa (Template:Lang-ru), Sula (Template:Lang-ru), one flows out Veksa (Template:Lang-ru).

  • View of Rostov from Nero Lake (photo 2006)
    View of Rostov from Nero Lake (photo 2006)
  • View of Spaso-Yakovlevsky abbey in Rostov from Nero Lake (photo 2006)
    View of Spaso-Yakovlevsky abbey in Rostov from Nero Lake (photo 2006)

Near Nero Lake is located the town of Rostov (on the western shore of the lake) and a few villages (on perimeter): Porech’e-Rybnoe (Template:Lang-ru), Ugodichi (Template:Lang-ru), Vorzha (Template:Lang-ru), L’vy (Template:Lang-ru) etc.

The first steamboat Emel’yan (Template:Lang-ru) appeared on the Lake in 1883.

References

  1. ^ "Перевод сара со всех языков на русский".
  2. ^ "Перевод varus со всех языков на русский".
  3. ^ "Перевод сула со всех языков на русский".


Stub icon

This Yaroslavl Oblast location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lake_Nero&oldid=1161431152"