Palik ( Belor. Palik , Pyalik [2] ) - a lake in the Borisov district of the Minsk region of Belarus , located 30 km north of the city of Borisov , is an extension of the Berezina [3] . On the lake is the village of the same name. The rivers Lutka , Smolnitsa , Burchak flow into Palik.
| Lake | |
| Palik | |
|---|---|
| Belor. Palik, Pyalik | |
 View of the lake from the right bank of the Berezina | |
| Morphometry | |
| Dimensions | 6.2 × 3 km |
| Square | 7.68 km² |
| Deepest | 2.1 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 2760 km² |
| Flowing river | Berezina |
| Flowing river | Berezina |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| Region | Minsk Region |
| Area | Borisov district |
The lake is located on the territory of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve .
The lake is very overgrown, the width of the strip of surface vegetation is about 500 m. The shores are low, marshy, peaty, sometimes sandy, under a shrub. The bottom is flat, sandy along the coast, lined with sapropel .
During World War II, there was a large partisan formation in the area of the lake, numbering more than 4000 people. In 1944, the Germans threw a very large formation (about 80,000 soldiers and officers) [4] , one of which was the 36th Grenadier Division of the SS "Dirlewanger . " For more than a month, the partisans fought with the enemy and emerged victorious. The guerrilla unit commander was Hero of the Soviet Union Roman Machulsky . On June 23, 1944, the Belarusian Fronts and the 1st Baltic Front went on the offensive. The 35th tank brigade erupted to Lake Palik [5] .
Notes
- ↑ GeoNames - 2005.
- ↑ Belarusian Poseidon. Lake Palik (Inaccessible link - history ) .
- ↑ Berezina // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Wealth of Belarus. Lake Palik (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 15, 2009. Archived July 15, 2010.
- ↑ Heroes of the country. Machulsky Roman Naumovich