Smolensk reservoir
Description:
The height above sea level is almost 185 meters, and the area is 6.86 square kilometers. The greatest depth reaches 11 meters. The reservoir flows into the channel of the Arzhev river, and the Shesnitsa river flows out.
The Smolensk Reservoir was created in 1977 on the basis of the glacial hollow lake Soshno. The reservoir is contaminated with petroleum products, salts of heavy metals due to the fact that it is a cooler of the Smolensk GRES. During its formation, old roads, ditches, hills, pits, part of the forested zone were flooded, which formed a complex bottom relief, interesting for fishing.
In the Smolensk reservoir live as local species of fish - pike, perch, bream, carp, tench, roach, guster, glue, nalim, yarsh, and launched during stocking - perch, carp, carp, carp, lake trout, sturgeon, channel catfish.