Lake Iset (russian: Исетское озеро) is a sweet water lake in

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

, 25 km north-west from the city of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

, on the shore of the lake stands the city

Sredneuralsk Sredneuralsk (russian: Среднеура́льск) is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shore of Iset Lake, at the head of the Iset River, north of Yek ...

. It has an area of about 24 km². Into the lake many rivers and streams flow, Shitovskoy source, Big Black, Kalynivka, Beryozovka Lebyazhka and Mulyanka. One follows the

Iset River The river Iset (russian: Исеть) in Russia flows from the Urals through the Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Oblasts, then through Tyumen Oblast in Western Siberia into the river Tobol. The city of Yekaterinburg is on the upper part of the river. The ...

. The lake is surrounded by mountains. Several small islands: Solovetsky reds (because of its shape was formerly called "Cap of Monomakh"), Stone (formerly called "The Ship"). At the lakeshore settlements:

city, village Iset, villages and Koptyaki Murzinka. Iset lake is rich in fish, including rudd, bream, tench, ruff, perch and pike. Acclimatized species such as carp and mirror carp. In 1850 in the mouth of the river Iset began construction of an earthen dam. Only in 1946 was replaced by an earthen dam on the concrete. Due to this, the lake level rose to the current level. The lake water is used in Sredneuralskaya. On the shores of the lake, archaeologists found more than a dozen sites of ancient people, dating from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

to the

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

. On one of the islands was found deposited ocher ancient images, but with the rise of the lake level they were flooded.

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