Ukshozero (Ukshezero, Uksha) is a lake in Karelia , on the border of Kondopoga (northern part of the lake) and Prionezhsky (southern part) districts.
| Lake | |
| Ukshozero | |
|---|---|
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| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 33 m |
| Dimensions | 14.5 × 4.0 km |
| Square | 44.6 km² |
| Volume | 0.29 km³ |
| Coastline | 39 km |
| Deepest | 20 m |
| Average depth | 7.5 m |
| Hydrology | |
| Mineralization type | bland |
| Transparency | 3-5 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 419 km² |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Republic of Karelia |
| Identifiers | |
| HWR : | |
The shape is irregular, stretched from the north-west to the south-east, a large bay - Surguba . The shores are high, stony-sandy. The lake has 14 islands with a total area of 0.56 km². The long-term maximum amplitude of the level fluctuations is 2.61 m, the average is 1.88 m. [2]
The main inflow is through the artificial Kosalma channel from Lake Konchezero . In the south-eastern part of the lake is connected by a channel with the river Shuya . The bottom soil is mostly silty; lake ore is found; in the coastal zone, the soil is stony-sandy.
Higher aquatic vegetation is represented by reed in bays.
Whitefish, bream, pike, whitefish, perch, burbot, roach, ruff live in the lake. Salmon periodically rises from the Shuya River to the lake.
See also
- Lakes of Karelia
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.
- ↑ Karelia: encyclopedia: 3 t. / Ch. ed. A. F. Titov. V. 3: R - J. - Petrozavodsk: PetroPress Publishing House, 2011. P. 195–384 p., Ill., Maps. ISBN 978-5-8430-0127-8 (v. 3)
Literature
- Ozera Karelii / Aleksandrov BM, Zytsar N. A., Novikov P. I., Pokrovsky V. V., Pravdin I. F. - Petrozavodsk: State Publishing House of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1959. - p. 269-276. - 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.