Lake Chekalin
Ulyanovsk region, Kuzovatovsky district, Russia.
Description:
Lake Chekalinskoye is located in the south-western part of the Kuzovatovsky district in the Ulyanovsk region, 4 kilometers from the village of Forest Chekalino. It is located at an altitude of 273 meters above sea level, its length is 0.54 kilometers, width - 0.54 kilometers, area - 40 hectares.
The lake depression was formed among the sand rocks on the watershed of the rivers Temryazanka and Tomyshevka. The lake has gentle slopes. Swamping occurs by overgrowth from the bottom and growth of sphagne alloy. Of great scientific interest is the alloy with sown plant communities, an area of 7 hectares and a peat capacity of 80 centimeters. On the alloy grow the rarest medicinal and valuable food plants, which include swamp gammarbia, dewling, three-leaf watch, swamp cranberries, swamp sheikhceria and white outline.
The cranberries bear great fruit. On the surface of the water there are a large number of islands of vegetation consisting of reed, horn, sedge and saber.
Chekalinskoye is a natural monument, it is one of the wetland protected objects.