Nichatka (russian: Ничатка; evn, нича)
is a fresh water body in the
Kalarsky District,
Zabaykalsky Krai,
Russia. The lake has an area of .
The name of the lake comes from the
Evenki language
Evenki (Ewenkī), formerly known as Tungus or Solon, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and the more closely related Oroqen language. The name is sometimes wrongly given ...
word for "fish".
Nichatka is located to the northeast of the great
Baikal. There are no settlements on the banks of the lake. The nearest airfield is
Chara Airport.
Geography
Nichatka is a long and narrow lake east of the
gorges of the
Vitim River, off the eastern limit of the
Delyun-Uran Range
The Delyun-Uran Range (russian: Делюн-Уранский хребет, translit=Delyun-Uranskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands.
The nearest airport is Bodaybo AirportGoogle ...
. It stretches roughly from north to south at the southern end of the
Patom Highlands and to the north of the
Kodar Range.
The
Sen River, a tributary of the
Chara, flows from the northern end of the lakeshore.
There are other deep lakes nearby, such as
Oron
Oron may refer to:
"Light" or someone that is "being able" or "capable" of doing anything posible or impossible.
*Oron people a multi ethnic group of people living In the lower Cross River basin.
*Oron Nation, one of the major states in the old Ca ...
to the southwest, but Nichatka is the deepest of the lakes of the Chara river basin.
[Сень - Water of Russia]
/ref> The lake is frozen between October and May; in the winter the thickness of the ice my reach .
Fauna
Among the fish species in the lake, salmon, whitefish, grayling
Grayling or Greyling may refer to:
Animals Fish
* Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae
** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus''
** Arctic grayli ...
, soroga, perch, lenok, taimen and pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
, deserve mention.
See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
{{Reflist
External links
Nichatka lake
(in Russian)
Open Kodar. Первый этап. Озеро Ничатка - Чита.Ру
Lakes of Zabaykalsky Krai
ru:Ничатка