Lake Karatai

Karatai is a small lake in the Ivanovo volost of the Nevelsky district of the Pskov region, located north of the city of Nevel. The area of the lake is about six kilometers, the average depth is about two and a half meters. The lake is flowing, connected with the rivers Luvat and Balazdyn. There are a lot of fish in the lake - shedding, eel, perch and carp. In some places there is wide-fingered cancer. The lake can be reached by car or through the railway station of the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk line. Almost the entire bottom of the lake is silky, but under it there is sand. On the shores of the lake there are several villages, the largest - Silverbrovo, Baranovo, Shcherbino and Lobachevo.