Isetskoye Lake is located 25 kilometers from the city of Yekaterinburg, in the north-west of it. The city of Sredneuralsk is located on its shore. About 24 sq. km is the area of this lake. Many streams and rivers flow into it - Kalinovka, Bolshaya Chernaya, Shitovskoy source, Mulyanka, Lebyazhka, Berezovka. Only one river flows out - the Iset. Lake Isetskoye, on which we are interested in recreation, is very shallow, it has many shallow bays - Warm, Lebyazhy, Mulevka, Cheremshansky - all are located on the eastern shore.
Origin of the name
For a long time there was an opinion that Iset got its name from the Issedon tribe that once inhabited the banks of this river. There is, however, another version. According to scientists, "Issedon" is the Iset River itself, and not a nationality. In the Scythian language "isse" means "river".
Islands and settlements located along the shores of the lake
There are several small islands: Kamenny (formerly called Ship), Red (formerly calledfor his uniform Cap of Monomakh), Solovetsky. The following settlements are located on the shores of this lake: the city of Sredneuralsk, the villages of Murzinka (here, by the way, there is a statue of Liberty) and Koptyaki, the village of Iset. Surrounded by mountains, Lake Isetskoye awaits its guests.
Fishing
This lake is very rich in fish. It contains perch, bream, chebak, pike, pike perch, ruff, tench. There are also acclimatized fish species such as mirror carp and grass carp. Unfortunately, locals catch them with nets, so even zander and small perch are coveted prey in many places.
Dam and ancient sites
In 1850, the construction of an earthen dam at the source of the Iset began. It was replaced with concrete only in 1946. Due to this, the level of the lake has risen, reaching the present level. Sredneuralskaya GRES uses this water.
Archaeologists have found more than a dozen different sites of ancient people along the banks of the rivers. They date from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Ancient images made with ocher were found on one of the islands. However, they were flooded with rising water levels in the lake.
Recreation center "Iset" and the Solovetsky Islands
You are probably interested not only in terms of fishing and archeology of Lake Isetskoye. Can you swim here? The answer is yes. A good place for this is the sandy Cape Tolstik, located on the western shore. Here is the recreation center "Iset". Opposite it, in the center of the lake, are covered with rare shrubs and pine trees.the forest of the Solovetsky Islands. They were named so because in the past centuries (18th and 19th centuries) there was a skete in which Old Believer monks lived. There is nothing left of him today.
If you plan to stay for a while, studying Isetskoye Lake, you can use the services of this recreation center. There are cozy, warm buildings, as well as a sauna with a swimming pool, a dining room for 100 people, a conference hall for 50 people. You can also spend the night in Sredneuralsk, in a hotel located at: st. Isetskaya, d. 6.
Wild vacation
You can still find places around this lake where you can drive close to the shore by car. However, they are getting smaller every year. The administration of the villages, as well as local we althy residents, contribute to this. In the village of Koptyaki, for example, even the entrance to the cemetery, located almost on the coast, was blocked with a barrier. Many motorists used to go to the shore on their way to it. Local residents simply dig up some entrances to the water.
Sredneuralsky city beach
For those who are not interested in wild recreation, the equipped beach can offer Iset Lake. Sredneuralsk is where you should go. A popular vacation spot for residents of this city itself, as well as Verkhnyaya Pyshma and Yekaterinburg, is the city beach. This is a great place for connoisseurs of cultural recreation. There are several cafes and piers here, not just a bare beach.
Lake Isetskoye in this place is very picturesque, you will surely like yourrelaxation. Note that parking is paid here in summer.
Red Island
What else can Lake Isetskoye offer, the photo of which is presented in this article? In its southern part, opposite the source of the Iset and the dam, there is a loaf-shaped island called Krasnenky. Its northern part breaks off steeply to the water. It is replete with rock outcrops made of granite. The entire northern slope is strewn with boulders ranging in size from 0.5 to 2 meters.
Larch, birch and pine grow on the island. The south side is more gentle. There used to be a beautiful birch grove here, in the shade of which it was pleasant to relax. However, since the early 1970s, vacationers began to harass her for firewood. There are only a few pine trees left on the island now, and only on the rocks of the northern part, which is difficult to get to. Krasnenky Island is a valuable archaeological site.
Remains of dwellings of ancient people were discovered here. The local museum of local lore in the village of Iset (school number 7) has a collection of clay shards and flint arrowheads, which was collected by schoolchildren.
Mount Fat
Where else can you go while visiting Isetskoye Lake? On its western bank, behind the village of Iset (its northeastern outskirts), there is a hill. This is Mount Tolstik. She got her name, apparently, from the word "fat".
The mountain rises like a large shaft above the Iset river, forming a number of peaks, between which there are saddles. The hill juts out into the Iset lake, formingCape Tolstik is here. Since 1909, the southern part of the mountain has been developed by the Isetsky granite quarry for crushed stone. She has practically disappeared by now. The same fate awaits the middle peak in the future. In the 1970s, on the eastern shore of this cape, local schoolchildren and A. G. Peshkov, who led the campaign, found a "leopard skin" - a new type of granite. A stone tent made of this material, which is about 4 meters high, is located on the top of the mountain. It stretches for 30 meters from west to east. The tent is steeper on the north side and flatter on the south side.
Ship Island
At Cape Lipovoy, in the north-eastern part of this lake, there is Kamenny Island, the height of which is 4-5 meters. It used to be called Korablik, because its outlines resembled a medieval sailing ship. During the construction of the Sredneuralskaya GRES, in 1934, this island had to be blown up. Today, only stone ruins remain of it, not at all like a ship. However, thanks to the watercolors by Sheremetevsky, a teacher at the male gymnasium in Yekaterinburg, the memory of what the island looked like originally remained. This picture was created at the request of Clair Onisiy Yegorovich, who worked at that time in the same gymnasium. Sheremetevsky wrote it in 1908. Modest Onisimovich, the son of Onisiy Yegorovich, brought a copy of the painting in 1919 to the museum of the Middle Ural School No. 5, where it is still today.
On the island of Korablik in 1878-1879, archaeologist M. Malakhov discovered rockdrawings of primitive people made in red paint. A brief description of them was made in 1890 by N. A. Ryzhikov, a member of the UOL. In 1914, sketches were made by V. Ya. Tolmachev. This painting can be attributed to the III millennium BC. e. V. N. Chernetsov, who published the drawings, noted the presence of several figures of birds on them.
Mount Petragrom
Petragrom Mountain is located 4 km north of the village of Iset. It received its historical name in honor of the trustee of metallurgists Peter the Thunderer. According to the results of excavations, as early as the 2nd half of the 1st millennium, ancient people smelted copper in these places. Masters of antiquity erected a real mining and metallurgical complex. The mined ore was delivered to the rocks. A mixture was prepared (a special mixture of crushed ore with animal bones and charcoal), and then it was placed in smelting furnaces. After that, the melting of the metal began, then it was poured into molds and then objects were processed (decorations, spears, arrows, arrowheads, etc.). Metal products made here spread over vast territories - from the Yenisei to the borders of Norway.
Rocks are located on top of this mountain. These are two-granite ridges that are elongated in the direction from east to west. The first begins with a rock, the height of which is about 10 meters. Then 2 other rocks follow, expanding upwards (height is about 20 m) and resembling something of giants in hats. Admiring these curved columns, notches and cracks, one involuntarily wonders how nature could create such a beautiful masterpiece from granite. This is followed by a rock about 30 meters high. It is steep on the north side, and more gentle on the south side. This rock has many bizarre recesses, as well as small columns. From its top, spacious distances open up. Mount Maly Petragrom can be seen in the south, Poldnevnaya in the west, Sagrinsky Tolstik and the village of Sagra located at its foot in the north. Further, the height of the rocks decreases, amounting to 3-4 meters. They extend to the west for another 20 meters before breaking off.
Dam and Sogrin mine
A dam is a place where a river flows out of Lake Isetskoe.
According to the data available today, ore was brought to Mount Petragrom from the Sogrinsky mine, known since ancient times. It is located in the upper reaches of the rivers Sogra and Medyanka (in their interfluves). The Sogrinsky mine is rich in iron and copper ores. In a straight line from it to Mount Petragrom is only 9 km. Sogrinsky mine today consists of several mines. One of them, the deepest and largest, is flooded. A small lake formed in its place. Another, the depth of which reaches 7 meters, exists today. You can go down into it. Its trunk is fixed with a wooden lining made of larch. The logs are fastened with forged nails. Complementing the picture of this mine are many ditches and a pit, and here you can also see waste rock dumps. Remains of forges and smelters have been found throughout the area. Archaeologists have found here both piles of used ore and metallurgical slag.
Lake Isetskoe Sverdlovskregion - a unique corner of the nature of our country. This is a great place for lovers of antiquity and the beauty of nature. If you are one of them, be sure to visit Lake Isetskoe. Reviews about this place suggest that it is worth getting to know it better. Lovers of a quiet and he althy outdoor recreation will find exactly what they were looking for here.
