Lake Sterzh
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- Species
- ≈ 10 species Source, Species: Community observations: eBird and GBIF
- Best time
- August Source, Best time: Months with the most species, across all years of observations
- ≈ 10 species Source, Species: Community observations: eBird and GBIF
- August Source, Best time: Months with the most species, across all years of observations
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About the lake
Sterzh is the first lake crossed by the upper Volga. It extends for 12 kilometres, reaching up to 1.5 kilometres wide, and has a bay opening to the east. Its area is about 18 square kilometres; the average depth is 5.1 metres and the maximum is 8 metres. The relatively high shores and lake bed are made up of sand and pebbles. Peschinka, Sinchina, Runa, Morshchikha and Ulinka flow into the lake, as does Prokop, a channel from Lake Stergut.
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On the Valdai Upland, Sterzh is the third-largest lake in the Upper Volga lake system. Together with Lakes Vselug, Peno and Volgo, it forms the Upper Volga Reservoir. At the point where the Volga enters Sterzh stands Sterzh hillfort, described in chronicles as a town of the Novgorod Slovenes. The 167-centimetre Sterzh Cross, associated with the lakeshore, has been kept at the Tver History Museum for more than a century. Later, passenger traffic crossed the lake on the 60-kilometre Peno–Shirkovo–Kokovkino route, served by the motor ship Zarnitsa.
Birds recorded nearby include the great crested grebe, great egret, gray heron, great spotted woodpecker and Eurasian magpie.
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