Lamba ( Karelian. Lambi , Fin. Lampi ) is the Russian name for small freshwater, as a rule, closed forest lakes in the territory of Karelia and Finland [1] .
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General information
Lambas are called lakes with an area of less than 1 km². The number of lambas in the territory of Karelia and Finland is tens of thousands, most of them with an area of less than 0.1 km². Water supply is provided by numerous forest springs and groundwater.
Lambas are located in hard-to-reach wooded areas and, as a rule, are surrounded by swamps , the banks are swampy. The ichthyofauna of stagnant lamb is represented by crushing perch, roach, burbot, sometimes it is completely fishless and, as a rule, have no fishery value.
In summer, in July-August, the transparency of water ranges from 0.4 to 2 m. Low transparency of water is due to the natural color of swamp humus in dark yellow and brown tones.
Due to the generally small average depths, the lamb can freeze in the winter to the bottom at significant low air temperatures.
See also
- Lakes of Karelia
- Toponymy of Karelia
Notes
- ↑ Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language by Vladimir Dahl