Shoaling and eutrophication
A falling water volume, spreading vegetation and worsening integrated water-quality indicators reduce the resilience of this small water body.
volume 0.225 → 0.096 million m³ in the comparative estimates for 1933–2021
51.4736, 23.8625karst lake
Lake Lynovets
Линовець
- 1.26 m
- Maximum depth
- 0.78 m
- Average depth
- 0.098932 km²
- Surface area
- 0.077167 million m³
- Water volume
Verified dataset
Key facts
Lynovets is a small satellite lake within the village of Svitiaz, holding thick sapropel deposits. Canals connect it to Svitiaz, it is eutrophying rapidly, and its attested fish fauna runs to at least six species.
Status: Shatsk National Nature Park; a satellite lake of Svitiaz
- Area
- 0.098932 km²
- Maximum depth
- 1.26 m
- Average depth
- 0.78 m
- Shoreline
- — km
Water chemistry
- Trophic state
- eutrophying rapidly
Ichthyofauna
Fish of the lake
Ecosystem
Flora and birds
Birds
swanEurasian cootmallardblack-headed gullcommon gullgrey herongeese
What to know
Lake in detail
- Lies within the village of Svitiaz itself, south of Lake Svitiaz.
- Connected to Svitiaz by canals; fed by precipitation, groundwater and exchange with the other lakes.
- The name is linked to the tench, though this is a local tradition rather than an established etymology.
- The bottom sediments are organic-ferruginous sapropels: the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine puts the reserve at 492,000 m³ and the mean thickness at 6.6 m.
- The official profile and the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine attest bream, pike and crucian carp; the lake-specific description adds tench, roach and weatherfish.
- Official sources do not resolve “crucian carp” to a species, so the reference to the native crucian carp carries moderate confidence.
- The widely quoted maximum depth of 3.7 m conflicts with the regional water authority (1.26 m) and the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (1.5 m); this profile uses the more precise official record.
State and recreation
The lake today
Ecological pressures
Rank in the group
#23by area · of 30
#27by depth · of 27
Area against Svitiaz, the largest lake0.098932 of 26.2 km²
Each measure counts only the lakes that report it.
Hydrology
Hydrological connections
The Shatsk lakes are not isolated bodies of water but a connected network. Canals cut between the late nineteenth and the mid twentieth century, along with natural channels, redistribute water between the lakes and the rivers.
Canal
Lake Svitiaz
Official and encyclopaedic sources confirm the canal connection; the direction and constancy of flow may depend on water levels.
Geography and access
Places nearby
All places →Language note
Editorial scope
This English profile carries the full narrative, chronology and local traditions. Source titles stay in their original language, and the Ukrainian page remains the reference version.
Read the Ukrainian profile →Sources
Source titles are retained in their original language.
- о. Линовець [Lake Lynovets]
- Линовець [Lynovets] (2016)
- Шацький край: озеро Линовець з висоти пташиного польоту [The Shatsk country: Lake Lynovets from the air] (2025)
- Линовець [Lynovets]
- Геоморфологія озерних улоговин Шацького поозер'я [Geomorphology of the lake basins of the Shatsk lake district]
- Шацькі озера — ВУЕ [Shatsk lakes — Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia]
Photo: Шацький національний природний паркUsed with permissioncropped