Elmozero is a lake in the Medvezhiegorsk region of the Republic of Karelia .
| Lake | |
| Elmozero | |
|---|---|
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 128 m |
| Square | 54.8 km² |
| Coastline | 99.2 km |
| Deepest | 50 m |
| Average depth | 12.2 m |
| Hydrology | |
| Mineralization type | bland |
| Transparency | 4.2—4.9 m |
| Pool | |
| Pool area | 359 km² |
| Flowing river | Elma |
| Flowing river | Elma |
| Location | |
| A country |
|
| The subject of the Russian Federation | Republic of Karelia |
| Area | Medvezhyegorsk district |
| Identifiers | |
| HWR : | |
General Information
The lake is elongated, stretched from north-west to south-east. The banks are elevated, in the northwestern and central parts - rocky up to 25 m high, in the southeastern - stony-sandy, covered with coniferous forest. There are 17 islands on the lake.
Through the lake flows the river Elma . Higher aquatic vegetation is represented by reeds and rdestami. Soils are represented by silt.
Palya, whitefish, whitefish, pike, perch, roach, ruff live in the lake.
The lake freezes in November, opens from ice in May.
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.
Literature
- Ozera Karelii / Aleksandrov BM, Zytsar N. A., Novikov P. I., Pokrovsky V. V., Pravdin I. F. - Petrozavodsk: State Publishers Office of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1959. - P. 502-506. - 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.
Links
- Elmozero . web.archive.org . The appeal date is May 3, 2019.