Pionerskoye is a lake on the Karelian Isthmus , in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region . Until 1940 it was located in Finland , until 1948 it retained the Finnish name Kuolemajärvi ( Fin. Kuolemajärvi - death lake), known from documents from the 16th century. The name is associated with a large number of people drowning in the lake (at the bottom of the lake there are many cold springs that cause sudden strong cramps in swimmers), or with the death of Michael Agricola on its banks [3] . The railway station at the southern end of the lake retained the name Kuolemajärvi. The name "Pioneer" - from the pioneer camp located on the shore (built on the site of the demolished Lutheran cemetery).
| Lake | |
| Pioneer | |
|---|---|
| fin. Kuolemajärvi | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 13.7 m |
| Dimensions | 12.5 × 1.7 km |
| Square | 13.8 [1] km² |
| Deepest | 17 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 172 km² |
| Flowing river | Wieliczka |
| Flowing river | Hayfields |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Leningrad region |
| Area | Vyborgsky district |
| Identifiers | |
| HWR : | |
The lake has a runoff into two river systems [1] : the channel is connected with the Alexander Lake , and in the northwest the Senokosnaya River flows from the lake.
On the shores of the lake are the villages of Ryabovo , Pionerskoye , Krasnaya Dolina , Mysovoe , Malyshevo .
Ruff , perch , roach , bleak , bream , bream , zander , pike are found in the lake .
Legends related to the lake
The Finnish legend says that on the lake in the Middle Ages a Swedish detachment was sunk, sunk by the Sami lake goddess Akkruva . Modern legend speaks of the many Finnish and Soviet tanks that drowned in the lake during the Soviet-Finnish War , and that the lake has a double bottom. In the vicinity of the lake there were fortifications of the Mannerheim Line . The remains of military equipment were indeed discovered at the bottom during a study by divers. [4]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 State Water Register . Pioneer . textual.ru . Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia (March 29, 2009). Date of treatment December 20, 2018. Archived March 29, 2009.
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 2. Karelia and the North-West / ed. E.N. Tarakanova. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1965 .-- 700 p.
- ↑ What is Kuolajemärvi?
- ↑ M. Dovzhenko. The legend of the lake of death. The program "Seekers" of the channel "Culture", 2013.