Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lakes(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Great Lakes GREAT LAKES [Great Lakes] group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km).
lakeLAKE[lake] inland body of standing water occupying a hollow in the earth's surface.
Lakes are of particular importance since they act as catchment basins for close to 40% of the landscape, supply drinking water, generate
Chudskoye, Lake - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chudskoye, Lake(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lake in eastern Estonia and western Russia; the boundary between the Baltic state and the Pskov oblast of the Russian Federation runs north–south across the centre of the lake.
The Russian hero Alexander Nevski defeated the Teutonic Knights on its frozen surface in 1242.
Lake Peipus is shallow, with an average depth of 7 m/23 ft, and a maximum depth of 15 m/49 ft. It is connected by a narrow channel with Lake Pskov to the south, in Russia.
Because parts of this region were not as damaged by Soviet mismanagement as other areas were, a motivating factor for the PLP at this larger scale is limiting future damage and promoting responsible management by international standards of human and ecosystem requirements.
A need to coordinate lake and watershed management between the two countries was emphasized by the PLP as it approached government bodies.
This is a physical place--nearly a bioregion--in the sense of ecological interest in the lake environment, including lakeshore development, watershed management, and the watershed's transboundary geographical location.
SPB PRESS #120 - Old Believer villages on lake face extinction(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The lake straddles the Russian-Estonian border, 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of St Petersburg, and is also known by its Estonian name, Lake Peipus.
Environmentalists warn that if the plight of Old Believer villages in the area is ignored by the government, the villages may vanish because of the lake's steadily increasing pollution and border changes that have affected their lifestyle.
Mr Snirenko suggested that the local people should be involved in whatever decision is taken by the two governments because the traditional lifestyle of the Old Believers has played a significant role in maintaining the ecological balance of the region.
It will be given to Estonia in exchange for a 68.9-hectare woodland area in the Meremae District of Estonia and 33.9 hectares of land in the neighborhood of the Varska District.
Both Estonia and Russia are now entitled to use their respective halves of the fairway of LakeChudskoye.
Russia gets access from the lake to the Narva River while Estonia gets parts of the lake in the vicinity of the Pijrisaar Island.
Alexander Nevsky plans to ambush the Germans on frozen lakeChudskoye.
However, when fighting on a frozen lake, heavy armor may be a disadvantage.
When the Russians are at the point of routing the Germans anyway, the ice cracks and the remaining Germans drown in the lake - an act of Divine intervention.
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The Novgorod lands once stretched from the ChudskoyeLake to Lake Ilmen.
In order to defend their territory against their warlike neighbours, the Novgorodians built fortresses, which were considered to be "suburbs of Novgorod".
And the fortress is much more accessible than many of the others - only an hour's journey by rail and ten minutes or so by boat, since Oreshek stands on an island in Lake Ladoga.
Pereslavl-Zalessky - Sightseeing in Russia pictures on Worldisround(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The place for the future town was chosen in the vale near the river called Trubezh not far from its confluence with the Lake Kleshino (now Pleshcheyevo).
Pereslavl host played an important role in the struggle of Princes (Linetsky battle, 1216) as well as in the struggle with enemy of the Russian land (Nevskaya battle, 1240, the battle at Chudskoyelake, 1242).
The "poteshny" boats and galleys built by young Tsar Peter the Great on the lake Pleshcheyevo in 1689-1693 were the beginning of Russian Navy.
Hakmao: Comment on Just in from Lake Chudskoye(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hakmao: Comment on Just in from LakeChudskoye
I don't think Solzhenitsyn has changed much at all- for all his literary exposure of Stalinist abuses he did favour a return to Tsarism and, unlike other dissidents like Sakharov, always defended 'Russian culture and traditions' against the West and its 'decadent liberalism'.
