Palozero (Palye , Pyal-lake , Palo ) - a lake in the Kondopoga region of the Republic of Karelia .
| Lake | |
| Palleozero | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 69.8 m |
| Dimensions | 22.6 × 5.8 km |
| Square | 100.2 km² |
| Volume | 1.93 km³ |
| Coastline | 77.7 km |
| Deepest | 74 m |
| Average depth | 18 m |
| Hydrology | |
| Mineralization type | bland |
| Transparency | 1.2-2.0 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 6220 km² |
| Flowing rivers | Talpus , Elmus |
| Flowing river | Niva |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Karelia |
| Identifiers | |
| HWR : | |
The lake is stretched from north to south. The shores are high, rocky and sandy. In the middle of the lake is located the Big Island, the total number of islands on the lake is eight. The bottom is covered with silt; at the coast, the ground is rocky and sandy.
Food mostly snow. It freezes in November-December, opens in April-May.
Whitefish, grayling, pike, perch, roach, whitefish, pike perch, bream inhabit in the lake.
The rivers Talpus and Elmus flow into the lake . After the construction of the Kondopoga hydroelectric station in Palozero, the water of the Suna River is transferred through the diversion canal (Pioneer Canal), and the lake itself has become the Palaero reservoir. The river Niva flows in the northern part of the lake.
It is used as a reservoir for hydro regulation in the Sung hydroelectric system.
In parallel with the eastern shore of Palaeozer, the E105 motorway passes. On the shore of the lake there is one settlement - the village of Svyatnavolok .
Notes
- ↑ Surface water resources of the USSR: Hydrological knowledge. T. 2. Karelia and the North-West / ed. E. N. Tarakanova. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1965. - 700 p.
Literature
- Ozera Karelii / Aleksandrov BM, Zytsar N. A., Novikov P. I., Pokrovsky V. V., Pravdin I. F. - Petrozavodsk: State Publishing House of the Karelian ASSR, 1959. - P. 290—292. - 618 s. - 3000 copies
- Grigoriev S. V. , Gritsevskaya G. L. Catalog of Lakes of Karelia. - Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences [Leningr. Department], 1959. - 239 p.
- Karelia: encyclopedia: in 3 t. / Ch. ed. A.F. Titov. T. 2: K - P. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House “PetroPress”, 2009. - 464 pp., Ill., Maps. ISBN 978-5-8430-0125-4 (v. 2)