Description of the attraction
The Shchuchye Lake nature reserve is located on the territory of the village of Komarovo on the Karelian Isthmus. Its length is 1.1 km, width - 0.6 km.
Lake Shchuchye ("hauki jarvi", Fin.) Gained its fame long before it appeared on Russian territory. Several centuries ago, the area next to the lake was part of the Swedish royal park Hauki-järvi, the game taken here was delivered to the king's court in Stockholm. The age of the local bogs, which include the Shchuchye Lake, is about 5 thousand years.
This lake used to be very fishy. There were golden and amber pike, trout and roach. The water here is very clean and the quality is close to drinking. The lake is of glacial origin, it is located between the kame hills in the basin, it is more than a kilometer long and 750 m wide. The lake's mirror area is 53 hectares.
From the eastern side, a peninsula juts into the lake for 300 m, which the lake divides into stretches. The shores of the lake are sandy or peaty. The shallowest, the Southern reach, is swamped and overgrown with reeds. The average depth of the lake is 2-2.5 m, in the deepest place - 2.9 m. The rapidly warming waters and the sandy bottom of the lake attract a large number of tourists in summer. In winter, there is active ice fishing.
The GGI Institute used these territories as a research ground for geographic and hydrological research.
The lake belongs to specially protected areas (natural monument, wildlife sanctuary). The Komarovsky necropolis is located a kilometer away. The former dacha of Academician N. N. Petrov, founder of the Oncological Institute in the village of Pesochny.
On the territory of the reserve, parking and movement of cars, making fires, littering the territory, damaging vegetation, walking pets, construction, contact with wild animals, felling of forests, horticulture and gardening are prohibited.
The boundaries of the protected area pass through the forest areas of the Molodezhnoye and Komarovskoye forestry, coinciding in the northeast with the border of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. The total area of the reserve is over 1000 hectares.
According to the results of a comprehensive environmental survey of the Shchuchye Lake nature reserve, carried out in 2009, it was found that the hills chaotically scattered over the territory are a complex of a unique water-glacial relief, which is composed of yellowish sands with inclusions of pebbles and gravel. It is a cam type of terrain. Its age belongs to the Paleolithic (more than 10 thousand years BC).
From the southeast of Shchuchye Lake flows the Shchukin stream, which is a tributary of the Sestra River. The Black Stream flows into the stream from the north, which originates in two small lakes (Black Lakes), located a kilometer from Shchuchye.
Bypassing Shchuchye Lake on the right side, you can get on the road to the Lammin-Suo (Lake Swamp) nature reserve, where the scientific station of the Hydrological Institute is located.
The administration of the village of Komarovo is engaged in landscaping and landscaping of the territory of the southeastern part of the shore of Lake Shchuchye in order to streamline the recreation area and preserve the unique natural landscape of this area. Thanks to their efforts, the carriageway was enlarged with an asphalt pavement, temporary parking lots for vehicles were organized, and a path for walks in the western direction was arranged. It is part of the so-called "health path" that runs along the coast to the west and southeast parallel to the road to Shchuchye Lake, special grounds for cultivating and resting with the preservation of existing plantings have been created, decorative sculptures and flower girls, elements of informative design have been installed.
On June 3, 2011, the Governor of St. Petersburg, together with the district administration, as well as representatives of the Committee for Nature Management, held a ceremonial opening of the reserve and accepted the work carried out according to the project for the improvement of the southeastern coast of Shchuchye Lake. As a sign of the opening of the reserve, a memorial plaque was erected on a large boulder located on the shore of the lake, and a live pike was released into the lake by the governor.
