Lake Vyalje

Vyalje is a famous lake on Gatchina in the Leningrad region. The name translates as “spacious, extensive”. The lake is really quite large. Its length is more than eight kilometers, and its width is 3.5 kilometers. The average depth is 3-5 meters, the largest is 9 meters. The shores around the lake are called cranberry, they are swampy and very rich in this useful berry. The lake will also please fishermen. Large pikes and perches often fall into fishing rods.

Around the lake are forests and shrubs. Pine, spruce, birch, alders and willows surround Vyalje, and near the shore often reeds and reeds, as there are many wetlands around the lake. Ducks and geese live on the lake, you can find beavers.

Since the shores of the lake are overgrown, it is difficult to reach. There are several paths along which tourists and fishermen reach the water.