Take stock of the geographical lakes of Europe
Lake Onega: The second largest lake in Europe (after Lake Ladoga). In the northwest of the European part of Russia. The lake is 33 meters above sea level. It extends 245 km from northwest to southeast, with a maximum width of 91.6 km and an area of 9,720 km². Water storage is 285 cubic kilometers. Glaciers - tectonic lakes. Shallow in the south and deep in the north, the deepest point is 127 meters. In the north, there are many narrow lakes and bays. There are more than 1,360 small islands (with a total area of 250 square kilometers) in the lake, and many reefs. The ice period is 5 months long (November to May of the following year). There are 58 rivers such as Vigegra flowing in; the Sverri River flows out, lake Thongladoga. On the south bank is a navigation river that connects the White Sea-Baltic Sea and the Volga-Baltic Sea waterway. Shipping is of great value. It is rich in many kinds of fish. On the island of Kige there are museums of monuments of wooden architecture and the Kareli Ethnographic Museum. The main cities along the coast are Petrozavodsk and Kondopoda.
