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Shatsky Lakes

The Shatsk Lakes (plural, Ukrainian: Шацькі озера, romanizedShatski ozera) is a group of fresh water lakes located in the north-west of Ukraine near the borders with Belarus and Poland, in the basin of the Bug river. The Shatsk Lakes are known for their clean, pure waters and views of the surrounding forests. The Shatsk Lakes are located in the Shatsk National Natural Park. The largest lake is Svitiaz.

The Shatsk Lakes in the Kovel Raion of the Volyn region. The Shatsk lakes is located on the left bank of the Western Bug (Vistula basin). The lakes is located in the Polesian Lowland, among the pine forests of Volyn Polissya.

he territory around the lakes has a landscape of alluvial-outwash lowlands with sod-podzolic soils. In the area of the Shatsk lakes, there are Quaternary lake-swamp deposits of the Holocene: silt, sapropel, peat.

The Shatsk lakes is located in a temperate climatic zone with an average annual air temperature of 8°C, the average temperature in June is 19°C, in January ― -5°C , the average amount of precipitation is more than 600 mm.

Lakes is fed by groundwater of the Cretaceous horizon, atmospheric precipitation and surface runoff.

The largest of the Shatsk lakes are:

The phytoplankton of lakes is most represented by desmid and desmid algae. Among the aquatic vegetation phragmites australis, typha latifolia, carex lasiocarpa, white waterlily, canadian elodea are common. The lake is home to eel, bream, carp, catfish, crucian carp, and coregonus.

Shatsk National Nature Park, which includes Shatsk lakes, was established by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR dated December 28, 1983 No. 533.

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