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Shatsk lake district

Chakove

Чакове

Land of the Shatsk community outside Shatsk National Nature Park; no separate nature-reserve status is confirmed

Verified dataset

Key facts

Chakove, which some cartographic sources give as Chakovo, is a peripheral lake of the Shatsk area, about 23 ha, near the village of Prypiat. It lies outside the territory of Shatsk National Nature Park and belongs to the extended 30-lake administrative list rather than to the settled 28-lake limnological typology.

Area
0.23 km²
Maximum depth
— m
Average depth
— m
Shoreline
2.02 km

Water

Published water indicators

Transparency
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pH
—
Total dissolved solids
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Dissolved oxygen
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Trophic state
polytrophic or eutrophic under the 2017 morphometric and resource classification; no lake-specific chemical measurements are given

What to know

Lake in detail

  • The scientific table gives an area of 0.23 km², a shoreline of 2.02 km, a length of 0.78 km, a width of 0.32 km and an elevation of about 159.5 m above sea level.
  • Depth, water volume and modern hydrochemical indicators are absent from the verified review.
  • The Shatsk community states explicitly that Chakove sits on land not belonging to the national park.
  • The GeoNames cartographic record places the lake roughly 4 km south of the village of Prypiat.
  • During an ecological expedition in 2007 the group headed for Chakove via the Prypiat canal and the Tenetyska river, but a waterlogged forest track stopped them about 300 m short of the water.
  • No verified lake-specific fish list, quantitative survey or control catch was found in open sources.

History

Chronology

  1. 2007

    An ecological expedition routed towards Chakove via the Prypiat canal and the Tenetyska; a sodden forest track left the party about 300 m short of the lake.

  2. 2017

    The lake was included in the 30-water-body morphometric list of the Shatsk administrative district and assigned to the group of small polytrophic and eutrophic lakes.

State and recreation

The lake today

Ecological pressures

High trophic level and no modern monitoring

A high trophic level can accelerate overgrowth and oxygen depletion, but without modern measurements neither the pace nor the scale of change can be established.

23 ha; no published modern data on depth, oxygen, nutrients or biota

Language note

Editorial scope

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Sources

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