Key facts
- Location
- Yaroslavl Oblast
- Lake type
- eutrophic
- Primary inflows
- Sara ( Russian : Сара ), Ishnya ( Russian : Ишня ), Kuchibosh ( Russian : Кучибош ), Mazikha ( Russian : Мазиха ), Varus ( Russian : Варус ), Chucherka ( Russian : Чучерка ), Unitsa ( Russian : Уница ), Sula ( Russian : Сула )
- Primary outflows
- Veksa
- Basin countries
- Russia
- Max length
- 13 km (8.1 mi)
- Max width
- 8 km (5.0 mi)
- Surface area
- 51.7 km (20.0 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 3.6 m (12 ft)
- Islands
- 2 (Levsky, Christmases)
- Settlements
- Rostov
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protected area of Russia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Yaroslavl Oblast
- Area
- 54.4
- Elevation
- 93
- Image
- Озеро Неро Ростов 7.jpg
- Width
- 8
- Length
- 13
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- basin country
- Russia
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- watershed area
- 1220
- Commons category
- Lake Nero
- vertical depth
- 3.6
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Nero (Russian: Не́ро) is a shallow, highly eutrophic lake in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. The lake has an area of 54.4 km, a maximum length of 13 km, width 8 km and depth 3.6 m. The bottom of the lake is covered with thick layer of silt sapropel (a sort of ooze used as fertilizer and for other purposes).
The lake is estimated to be about 500 thousand years old, making it one of a few pre-ice age lakes in central Russia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.