Lake Sea eye Bashny.Net

Literally on the border with Tatarstan in Mari edge there is a wonderful and very beautiful lake.
From the depths of the karst failure looking at us the so called Sea eye famous local lake. We christened it as the right of a circular shape and amazing emerald color of the water.
This color green algae give the lake. According to one version the pond originated 20 thousand years ago - back in the Ice Age!
With sea eye associated with many ancient legends.





Lake Marine eye allocated a unique form, like a volcanic crater destroyed the outer wall. This is a relatively young karst collapse occurred in the high ledge up to 90 m in height. The lake, lying in the area of ​​the foot ledge 35 reaches 5 m pripoperechnikah 45 to 50 m.
Water clarity is large, up to 5, 5 m, and harakterenosoby its emerald green color. From the lake follows a stream with a flow rate of 10 liters / sec.
Water is of good quality and is used by local people for drinking purposes.
Based on the chemical analysis should be produced that the power of the lake comes from underground springs descending sandy layers thick and thin limestone Tatar age and precipitation coming into the lake in the form of temporary runoff (snow melt water, rain).



Locals call it Mushyl. This is the true name. Lake Mushyl Sotnurskoy located on a hill near the village. Shariboksad. Its geographic coordinates: 56 gr.5's.sh. Gr.16 47 'E
Time of the failure of the lake is not known. But there are a beautiful legend among locals about the origins of the lake, passed on from generation to generation.
Local A.Filippov author in his article in the newspaper "Yamde ly" (18.01.1992g.) Argued that the lake was formed about 20 thousand years ago during the Ice Age.



Why is the lake called the Sea Eye? - The color of water in the lake amazing - emerald green. When you look to Sharinskoy mountains down into the valley, the eye catches a vivid contrast between the color of the water in the Sea eye and other nearby bodies of water, where the water is normal color. Unusual color give green water, do not touch the fragile algae.

Flora and fauna

The lake is located on the northern slope of the mountains Sharinskih.
So the sun's rays do not come here the whole day.
This can be explained not rich vegetation along the banks.
At the shore grow me-nots and arrowhead. Trees are represented spruce and fir. In the forest found fungi, mosses and lishayniki.Tak as the sun's rays reach the surface of the little lake, there is not much plankton. In the water multiply Chlorella, Chlamydomonas Volvox, spirogera, ulotruks, waterweed.
Fauna is represented by: common pond snail, shell mussels, frogs and fish.
Fish in the lake is not much because the water in the lake is always cold enough. In the lake they live and breed fish species such as roach, silver bream, perch, golden carp, eel, bleak, pike. Lin as usual, which is a proof that the water in the lake is clean and not polluted.

Where did the fish in the lake?

The fish is brought to the lake is likely to waterfowl. Eggs pestered to the legs of birds and migrated to other water bodies with them.

As we told the local ethnographer - a veteran of pedagogical work Loginovich Peter Konstantinov, the summer of 2002 explored the lake who came from Kazan amateur diver.
According to him the depth of the lake is in reality 33m. Bowl filled up lying at the bottom of the lake, not standing, as stated earlier, the trees.
Water is at a depth of opaque. At the bottom of the dark. Flashlight does not break through the water column. On the slope as if a diver found a small cave. I sailed on it 1, 5 m, but decided not to continue.



Tragedy Lake

About 10 years ago there drowned devyatiklassnitsa Shariboksadskoy school Elya Vasiliev.
The accident occurred when she wanted to wash his feet, but slipped on the catwalk and fell into the water. Is next girlfriend could not help her. The girl's body for a long time could not find any divers or snorkelers. Raise drowned body helped the local medicine man, now deceased Nikolai Kuzmin.
Using his magical sacrament, he was able to identify the exact location of the corpse, and only then it was raised.
An autopsy revealed that the girl had died of cardiac arrest as a result of fear, because the water in the lungs was found. Another tragic incident occurred in the winter.
Two boys from a local school went to physical education classes, and walked along the shore of the lake on a steep slope.
Suddenly it collapsed on top of a huge mass of snow and crushed the children.



Legends Maritime eyes

Legend 1. In the old days went to these places of the wedding procession. Groom with the bride took Morkinsk side of these places. And when the wedding procession came back on the old forest road, gay people have not noticed that the earth fell on their way. Gone is the depth of centuries-old trees. The entire wedding procession went to the depths of the lake which has arisen on the site of a deep dip. So far, according to legend, sometimes at night you can hear the soft sounds of lake wedding songs and chime of bells.

Legend 2. Save another legend, according to which, a long time ago in the lake Mari peasants found the remains of ancient marine ship. As if the water in the bottom of the lake as the sea - salty.

Legend 3. Tenyz Hsinchu. Argue, if the lower layers of the lake has a velvet sea algae that give the lake water its unique emerald color.

Legend 4. According to this legend, on the site of an old lake was once a large pine forest. From hitting the ground a spring with pure spring water. Through the woods took a highway - koryazh (ridge).

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