Zaslawskaye reservoir

Zaslawskaye reservoir
Zaslawskaye reservoir
	Satellite photo of the Minsk sea, 2019
	Zaslawskaye reservoir
Location	Minsk Region
Coordinates	53°58′34″N 27°22′46″E / 53.97611°N 27.37944°E
Lake type	Artificial
Basin countries	Belarus
Max. length	10 km (6.2 mi)
Max. width	4.5 km (2.8 mi)
Surface area	31.1 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
Average depth	3.5 m (11 ft)
Max. depth	8 m (26 ft)
Water volume	108.5 million cubic metres (3.83×109 cu ft)
Shore length1	55 km (34 mi)
Settlements	Zaslawye
	1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Zaslawskaye reservoir (Belarusian: Заслаўскае вадасховішча, Russian: Заславское водохранилище) is a water reservoir in the Vileyka-Minsk water system [ru]. It is the second largest artificial lake in Belarus. It is located only 5 km from the northwestern edge of Minsk, and is often called the Minsk sea.

Description

Zaslawskaye reservoir is the second largest artificial reservoir of Belarus, second in size to the largest Vileyka reservoir. It was created in 1956 by a dam on a Svislach river in order to control floods in Minsk and to regulate the flow of the river. It is part of the Vileyka-Minsk water system.^[1] The bowl of the reservoir was a swampy floodplain of the Svisloch, Vyacha, Ratomka and Chernyavka rivers before flooding. It is located just 5 km from Minsk, and is often called the Minsk sea.^[2]^[3]^[4]