Sorot River
Russia, Pskov region, Pushkin mountains
Description:
The Sorot River flows through the territory of the Pskov region. Starting from Lake Mikhalkinskoye, Sorot for eighty kilometers slowly carries its calm quiet waters along a bizarrely winding channel to its confluence in the Great River.
The name of the river comes from the ancient Slavic word "sor" - spring, and today its banks abound with clean springs with excellent drinking water. The width of the river on average is slightly less than thirty meters. Sorot was once navigable, but those days are long gone. Along the river there are many small old villages with funny names - Zimari, Slepni, Zhabkino, Sobolitsa.
But the Sorot River is known primarily by the fact that on its banks there are estates closely related to the name of Alexander Pushkin - Mikhailovsky, Trigorskoye, Petrovsky. At Mikhailovsky river spills, forming two lakes. You can see the manor building from the river. When in 1946 it was restored after the destruction of the Nazis, centuries-old pines for construction were floated here along Soroti.