Poletska lake

Polets lake is considered by many as a reservoir of glacial origin. There is a scientific assumption that it is formed, among other things, by karst processes. The lake has a pear-shaped shape. Its length along the north-south line is about 1000 kilometers, and along the west-east line about 850 kilometers. The total area of the water surface is about 0.56 square kilometers. Its maximum recorded depth is 0.9 meters. On all sides the lake is surrounded by peat swamp. The name of the lake comes from the base of the Baltic “pala”, which translates as “swamp”. Of the living fish in this reservoir is dominated by pike, carp, perch.