Lake Surzi
surza, Arkhangelsk region, Russia
Description:
Lake Surzi is one of the largest lakes in the area. The total area of the lake is almost 6 square kilometers, and the total area of the lake basin is 58.3 square kilometers. The lake is connected by a tributary with the river Surzinskaya Viska. The mouth of the river Surzinskaya Viska 81 kilometers in the left part of the bank of the river Rochuga. Its length is 9 kilometers. On the border zone of the Republic of Komi and the Arkhangelsk region, it connects with Lake Surzi.
Between 2001 and 2002, several people were poisoned with toxins on Lake Surzi, some of them even died. A version was put forward that the poisoning could occur as a result of the crash of one of the stages of the rockets that were fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, but this version was not confirmed.