of the East European Plain, about 130 km northeast of Moscow, in
the basin of the Upper Volga. On the southeast shore is the resort town of
Pereslav-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Region.
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The lake, which is part of Pleshcheyevo National
Park, covers an area of over 51 km², its
length is 9.5 kilometres and its shoreline is 28 kilometres. Although it is 25 metres deep in the middle, the waters near the shore are quite shallow.
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The park has recorded 60 species of mammals,
210 of birds, 10 of reptiles, 109 of insects.
19 species of fish are found in Lake Pleshcheyevo.
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One of Lake Pleshcheyevo's inhabitants is the "freshwater herring"
(ryapushka in Russian). The city of Pereslavl's coat of arms has
two golden fish on a black ground. This town was known in the Middle Ages for exporting smoked ryapushka, which was the favorite fish at the Tsars' table.
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In 1688–1693, Peter the Great built his famous
"funny flotilla" on Lake Pleshcheyevo for his own amusement,
including the so-called Peter's little boat, which would be considered one of the forefathers of the Russian fleet. The Botik (small boat) museum in Pereslavl-Zalessky chronicles the history of the first Russian fleet and keeps one of the original ship models.
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In 1925 author Mikhail Prishvin spent a year
at a research station near the lake and wrote
up his observations of the landscape in the widely admired Springs of Berendey.
Lake Pleshcheyevo is now a protected area under the Pereslavl Governmental Nature-Historical Natural Park authority.