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Lake Usvyaty

Coordinates: 55°45′10″N 30°41′59″E / 55.752872°N 30.699711°E / 55.752872; 30.699711
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Lake Usvyaty
View of Lake Usvyaty
Lake Usvyaty is located in Pskov Oblast
Lake Usvyaty
Lake Usvyaty
Location of Lake Usvyaty in Pskov Oblast
LocationPskov Oblast, Russia
Coordinates55°45′10″N 30°41′59″E / 55.752872°N 30.699711°E / 55.752872; 30.699711
Primary inflowsUsvyacha River
Primary outflowsUsvyacha River
Basin countriesRussia
Surface area6.99 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Average depth1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)
Max. depth3.6 m (12 ft)
Water volume1.9 km3 (0.46 cu mi)
Surface elevation144 m (472 ft)
SettlementsUsvyaty, Bondarvo, Dvoreets, Molitvino

Lake Usvyaty [1][2] is a lake in the Usvyatsky volost of the Ussvyaty Rayon of the Pskov Oblast. It has a water surface of 6.99 km² (699.0 ha) and a total surface, including islands of 7.03 km² (703.0 ha). The maximum depth is 3.6 m, the average depth is 1.4 m.[1][3]

On the shore of the lake there is the settlement Usvyaty and the villages of Bondarvo, Dvoreets, Molitvino.

The Ussycha River crosses the lake, flowing from north to south-west. The river is part of the Daugava (Western Dvina) river basin .

Type of lake is bream-roach with a glue and pike perch. Mass species of fish: bream, pike perch, pike, roach, perch, gusher, rudd, ruff, glue, sink, burbot, crucian, tench, ide, loach, pinworm.[1]

For the lake is characteristic: in the littoral - silt, peat, sand, silted sand, in the center - silt, local frosts, in the coastal zone - meadows, swamps, wetlands [1]

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