Zhizhitskoe [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] is a lake in the Kunyinsky district in the southeast of the Pskov region [1] .
| Lake | |
| Zhizhitskoe | |
|---|---|
 Sunset on Lake ижyицycki in October 2014 | |
| Morphometry | |
| Square | 57.3 km² |
| Deepest | 7.8 m |
| Average depth | 3.2 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 386 km² |
| Flowing river | Slurry |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Pskov region |
| Area | Kunin District |
The area is 57.3 km², the maximum depth is 7.8 m, and the average depth is 3.2 m [4] . The second reservoir of the region after the Pskov-Peipsi Lake Complex .
Flowing lake. Bream-fuss-snotkovy. Massive fish species: pike perch , bream , pike , roach , perch , silver bream , smelt , hive , ruff , rudd , catfish , tench , burbot , bluefin , crucian carp , asp , minnow , loach , tweezers , dace , verkhovka , ide , eel , lamprey , quickid , chub , sculpin [4] .
The shores of the lake are flat and low, partly boggy. There are 28 islands in the lake with an area of 134 hectares (1.34 km²). The bottom is uneven (nalya, pits), in the center - silt, silted sand, separate stones, in the littoral - sand, sand with pebbles and stone, stones, silted sand [4] .
Through the flowing lake Zhakto and the Zhizhitsa river it is connected with the Zapadnaya Dvina river [6] .
On the peninsula in the northwestern part of the lake is the ancient city of иy городаec .
Zizycka archaeological culture of the middle of the third millennium BC is named after the lake. e. (Late Neolithic ) [7] .
In 1245, Prince Alexander Nevsky defeated the remains of the Lithuanian army near Zizzycko Lake after he defeated it near Toropets .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Zhizhitsky // Dictionary of the names of hydrographic objects of Russia and other countries - members of the CIS / ed. G.I. Donidze. - M .: Kartgeotsentr - Geodezizdat, 1999 .-- S. 136. - ISBN 5-86066-017-0 .
- ↑ Map sheet O-36-XXXII Toropets . Scale: 1: 200,000. 1975 edition
- ↑ Map sheet O-36-135 Slurry . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1982. 1991 edition
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Reservoir Fund of the Pskov Region (Excell) ( Website of the State Committee for Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the Pskov Region. Fisheries / Aquatic Biological Resources )
- ↑ Map sheet O-36-135-A - FSUE GOSGISCENTER; Map sheet O-36-135-B - FSUE “GOSGISCENTER” Scale: 1 cm 500 m
- ↑ Map of the Pskov Region: Kunya
- ↑ E. M. Chekunova , N.V. Yartseva , M.K. Chekunov , A.N. Mazurkevich . "The first results of genotyping of indigenous people and human bone remains from archaeological sites of the Upper Dvina." S. 287-294. Table on p. 294. // Archeology of lake settlements IV — II millennium BC. e.: chronology of cultures and climatic rhythms. - St. Petersburg: LLC Periphery, 2014.