(English: "White Lake")
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Ryazan
Ryazan ( rus, Рязань, p=rʲɪˈzanʲ, a=ru-Ryazan.ogg) is the largest city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census ...
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Spas-Klepiki
Spas-Klepiki (russian: Спас-Кле́пики) is a town and the administrative center of Klepikovsky District in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the Pra River (Oka's tributary) northeast of Ryazan, the administrative center of the oblast. ...
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Meshchyorsky National Park
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Lake Beloye ( rus, Бе́лое о́зеро, p=ˈbʲɛləjə ˈozʲɪrə — literally ''White lake'') is a lake in
Klepikovsky District
Klepikovsky District (russian: Клепико́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #83-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Ryazan Oblast, twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is loca ...
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Ryazan Oblast
Ryazan Oblast ( rus, Рязанская область, r=Ryazanskaya oblast, p=rʲɪˈzanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities ...
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Russia
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. It is notable for its relatively great depth for the region - - created as a deep gouge in the landscape in the most recent glaciation.
The lake is located in the Meshchyera Lowlands, a glacial alluvial plain of swampy lowlands, gravelly moraines and limestone bedrock.
It was once connected by an artificial canal to ("Grand Lake", a much larger lake with a surface area of ). The canal was filled in 2009. Lake Beloye is surrounded by pine forests, with reeds and sedge predominating on the shore. It is a popular lake for recreation and fishing, being home to pike, carp and other fish.
Lake Beloye was classified in 1974 as a "Nature Monument of Regional Importance", for its "scientific, cultural, educational and health" value (World Database of Protected Places ID #206212). The site records the presence several species listed as vulnerable in the Red Book of Russia, including the
Viviparous lizard
The viviparous lizard, or common lizard, (''Zootoca vivipara'', formerly ''Lacerta vivipara''), is a Eurasian lizard. It lives farther north than any other species of non-marine reptile, and is named for the fact that it is viviparous, meaning i ...
, the reptile living the farthest north.
It is part of
Meshchersky National Park.
See also
* List of lakes in Russia
* Meshchersky National Park
References
External links
Official site - Ryazan Nature Areas
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Lakes of Ryazan Oblast