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The Uglich reservoir is a medium-sized reservoir located in the upper reaches of the Volga River in the Tver and Yaroslavl regions, between the Ivankovskoye reservoir and the Rybinsk reservoir. It was formed in 1938-1943 after the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric power station in Uglich.

View of the Uglich reservoir in Kalyazin. 2011 Photo: Mikhail Arkhipov

View of the reservoir in the White Town area. 2015 Photo: Mikhail Arkhipov

Transit navigation through the reservoir is carried out from the end of April to mid-November and depends on the work schedule of shipping locks in Dubna (lock No. 1 of the Moscow Canal) and Uglich (lock No. 10U). In winter, the reservoir freezes over.

View of the reservoir in the Kimr region. 2015 Photo: Mikhail Arkhipov

The Uglich reservoir is used taking into account the interests of energy, transport, agriculture and fisheries, water supply, recreation, etc.; is the main source of water supply for the cities of Dubna, Kimr, Uglich, rural settlements, as well as public recreation facilities.




The volume of water taken from the reservoir in recent years is more than 17,000 m3 per year, the amount of wastewater discharged is about 14,000 m3 per year.

Uglich reservoir

Uglich reservoir is located in the historical region of ancient Russian specific principalities - Uglich And Kashinsky. These historical places inhabited since such antiquity have many monuments of history and architecture. But at the same time, these places have always remained a "bear corner", where they hid from the plague and enemy raids. The cultural center of the region since the 17th century was the Makariev Monastery, which was destroyed in the 20th century. communist barbarians. For such a long period of life of our ancestors, the nature of these places has not lost its beauty. Even after the communist constructions, it flourished even more. The Big Volga does not spill here wider than 5-7 km (the widest spill is Sknyatinsky reach), but in its sandy shores and with picturesque pine islands, the Volga still impresses any person who is not indifferent to beauty.

The Uglich reservoir is located within the Kimrsky, Kashinsky and Kalyazinsky districts of the Tver region, and ends in the Uglichsky district. This reservoir is of the channel type, stretched for 146 km. Its main part is located on the territory of the Tver region, and a small part, almost at the dam itself, is in. On the banks of the reservoir there are quite large cities - Kimry, Kalyazin and Uglich. During the creation of the Uglich reservoir, about 100 villages and villages, 30 urban and rural churches, one of the largest monastic architectural ensembles of Russia, were flooded. Everyone knows that the bell tower, proudly standing among the Volga waters, has become the hallmark of Kalyazin today, which was never blown up when creating the reservoir.

The reservoir was created in 1943 during the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric power station in order to obtain electricity and water supply for the cities and towns of the Kalinin (now Tver) and Yaroslavl regions, as well as to develop shipping and fisheries. The reservoir was formed during the flooding of the Volga floodplain and partially the floodplains of the rivers flowing into it. Therefore, it has an elongated shape in the direction of the former Volga channel. The area of ​​the reservoir is 24.9 thousand hectares (249 sq. km). Gross capacity 1245 million cubic meters m, useful - 809 million cubic meters. m. The width of the reservoir reaches 5 km.

It has the greatest depth along the main channel of the Volga. The greatest depth at the dam site is 23 m. The average depth is 5.5 m. The largest area is occupied by shallow waters with depths of less than 5 m (36% of the total area). In the spring, the reservoir is filled with melt water, the water level in it rises greatly. In summer, periodic water passes to the hydroelectric power station are carried out, the water level fluctuates, and currents arise accordingly. In autumn and especially in winter, the water level in it drops by 2.2 m as a result of the operation of the hydroelectric power station.

Many rivers flow into the Uglich reservoir. Right tributaries: Dubna, Hotcha, Pechukhnya, Volnushka, Nerl (Volzhskaya), Zhabnya. Left tributaries: Medveditsa (the largest and full-flowing tributary), Kashinka and Puksha.

29 typical for the Volga basin live in the reservoir. The main ones are bream, roach, silver bream, bleak, burbot, ruff, secondary - ide, dace, chub, asp, tench, gudgeon, sabrefish, crucian carp, podust, blue bream, catfish. Commercial fishing is carried out in the reservoir. On average, 200 tons of fish were caught, including 43% of bream, 46% of roach, 7% of perch, and the rest of the species accounted for less than 1%. Amateur anglers also catch a lot of fish - about 200 tons per year. Commercial fish productivity was 5.2 kg/ha, and taking into account recreational fishing - 13.2 kg/ha. Over the past decade, the fish productivity of the Uglich reservoir has decreased by almost 3 times. Fishing at the Uglich reservoir attracts a lot of fans.

The reservoir is conditionally divided into three parts: the upper (downstream), the narrowest, is located from the Ivankovskaya dam to the mouth of the Medveditsa, the middle - to the village of Priluki and the lower, the deepest, occupies the dam zone.

The first tributary, the Dubna River, flows into the Volga on the right about ten kilometers behind the Ivankovskaya dam. A waterway from Dmitrov to the Volga once passed along it. The length of Dubna is 167 km. At the mouth is the estate of Ust-Dubna, which belonged (in the 19th century) to the Vyazemsky princes. The manor house and the church (1837) have been preserved. The manor was restored through the efforts of the Eye Microsurgery MNTK (as well as the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Rozhdestveno). Behind the mouth of the river Dubna begins the Kimrsky district of the Tver region.

The right bank of the Volga on the way to Kimry is wooded and sparsely populated, and on the left, along the highway, villages are quite common. The large villages of Prislon are on the right bank, Bogunino are on the left, and others. In addition to the usual agricultural activities, the local residents have a traditional woodworking industry. Even in the old days, the manufacture of wooden spoons, blocks for shoe production, and, consequently, artistic wood carving, was developed in these parts.

The regional center is the city of Kimry, located at the confluence of the Volga river. Chimerka. City - since 1947. The population is about 60 thousand people. Kimry is an ancient center of shoe production in Russia. Kimryaks shod a significant part of the population of Russia and the Russian army. All-Russian shoe fairs were held twice a year. At the beginning of the XX century. Kimry is one of the most commercial and industrial villages in the Tver province. The Kimrsky Pokrovsky Cathedral and the Trinity Church were the most magnificent and grandiose rural churches in Russia (destroyed in 1936). The business center with Art Nouveau buildings (beginning of the 20th century) contrasts here with kilometers of one-story and two-story houses. Two churches (XIX century) have been preserved in Kimry. The city has a theater, a museum of local lore with a magnificent collection of wooden figurines by master M.P. Abalyaev. Kimry land is the birthplace of A.A. Fadeev and A.N. Tupolev. The city includes the right-bank settlements of Savelovo and Yuzhny. Savelovo is the terminus of the electrified Savelovskaya railway. The right and left bank parts of the city are connected by a road bridge (1978).

On the segment of the path Kimry - Bely Gorodok on the banks of the Volga slowly carrying its waters, groves and hills, multi-colored and mixed grass meadows, domes of churches flicker from time to time. The right bank of the river is higher, sandy, with steep slopes and beaches, the left one is lower, meadow, with small pine forests and deciduous forests.

On the approach to the village of Bely on the right bank of the Volga, there used to be the estate of the hero of the Battle of Borodino, General Shatilov. Now the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1838) stands on a hill here - the only building of that time that has survived here - and nearby - a three-tiered bell tower, a monument in the style of Russian classicism.

At Bely Gorodok, the Khotcha River, which has a very wide funnel-shaped mouth, flows into the Volga on the right. About 3 thousand people live in the village of Bely Gorodok located here. Once there was a city founded by Yuri Dolgoruky, then turned into an ordinary village. The fortress of white stone has long been destroyed. On the arrow, at the confluence of the Hotcha with the Volga, the Jerusalem Church with a bell tower, built in the style of classicism (1812–1825), rises. The hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, General D.S., was born and lived in Bely Gorodok. Dokhturov. Near the village there was a manor where, according to legend, Boris Godunov was born. The cargo fleet of the Moscow River Shipping Company winters at the mouth of the Hotcha. Repair of ships during the wintering period is carried out by the local shipbuilding and ship repair plant, which employs a significant part of the population. On the left bank there is Sosenki dock - once a "green parking lot" for cruise ships. A great place for picnics, swimming, walking, sports activities. In July - August, near the White Town, autotourists populate and litter all the banks of the Volga with their campsites.

Behind Bely Gorodok, forests come close to the banks of the Volga - pine forests and birch groves, which, along with sandy shallows and a leisurely current, make the Uglich reservoir very picturesque.

The Volga is getting wider. You can no longer see the campsites of autotourists, you can only get here by boat. The shores become low, swampy, islands appear. Dams protect the land adjacent to the channel from spills. The villages are remote from the river, they can only be reached by dirt roads, they are also separated from the mainland by deep winding bays, formed on the site of tributary valleys flooded when the reservoir was filled. The Volga valley here is not wide - from about 1 km and its banks limited the flood of the river during the construction of the dam. Only at the mouths of the Medveditsa and Nerl rivers that have turned into bays, the banks part to a width of up to 5 km, only here you understand that this is still a reservoir, and not just the Volga River.

Prior to the transformation of the Volga into the Ivankovskoye and Uglichskoe reservoirs, in dry years, small motor ships ran from Uglich to Tver for only 10-12 days, and even then only in the first half of the summer. The river in this area abounded with shoals, boulder rapids and whirlpools. Only in the area between Kimry and Kalyazin there were 16 shoals and rifts. What has not been done to improve the conditions of navigation! The banks of the Volga bristled with numerous dams, impenetrable walls and semi-dams. For their device, both old, outdated barges and matting coolies stretched on stakes were used, but most often wooden shields and fascinated, that is, fences made from a bunch of rods, were used. The Medveditskaya shoal near the mouth of the Medveditsa River, Sukharinskaya near the village of Sukharino and many others, which caused so much trouble for the rivermen, disappeared forever in the depths of the reservoir. From the coastal villages today, only elevated places remain, which have become islands, while the lowlands have been covered with water. On islands and shores overgrown with birch forest, stove stones, gates, locks, door hinges, etc. are often found.

Medveditsa in ancient times served as a border river between the Vladimir-Suzdal principality and the Novgorod Republic. At the mouth of the Medveditsa, where now a small island used to be a shore on which once stood a fortified town of Novgorod merchants who used the river as a natural route to the Volga. Here, at the mouth of the Medveditsa, in 1148, the combined troops of the Kyiv and Smolensk principalities and Novgorod came out, going to war against the Vladimir-Suzdal principality. Encountering no resistance from Yuri Dolgoruky, the united troops burned towns and villages on the banks of the Volga from Uglich to Mologa and took away 7,000 captives. The mouth of the Medveditsa today is a wide bay, in which there are many islands that were uplands of the left bank before the reconstruction of the Volga. Not far from the mouth of the Medveditsa was the property of Prince Saltykov. It was here, as the folk legend says, that Boris Godunov was born and often visited during his reign.

Downstream on the right, the Nerl River flows into the Volga. This river in the XII - XIV centuries was an important trade route that connected the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky with the Volga - a major military and economic center of ancient Rus'. The path from Lake Pleshcheyevo, where this city is located, to the Volga went along the Vekse River, through Lake Somino and further along the Nerl flowing from it. A little above the mouth of the Nerl, between two railway bridges across the Nerl and Volnushka, there is a small station Sknyatino. This is all that remains of the ancient Russian city of Ksnyatin, founded in 1134 by Yuri Dolgoruky. There are other names of the city: Kosnyatin, Konstantin, Sknyatin. The fortress was located at the confluence of the Nerl River into the Volga, on a high bank, surrounded on all sides by river water, forests and swamps. However, the city was very vulnerable in the winter season, since the enemy regiments were walking on the ice.

In the annals of 1148, Ksnyatin is already mentioned as a serious fortress on the border of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality and the Novgorod lands. The city-fortress was of great strategic importance in those days. In 1216, Sknyatin was ravaged by the Novgorodians. In 1238, the city stood on the ice path of the Mongol-Tatars and was destroyed. In 1288, as a result of the princely civil strife, Ksnyatin was again burned. In 1399, according to the will of the Tver prince Mikhail Alexandrovich, Ksnyatin passes to his grandson Ivan. The next mention in 1459 is found in the annals already as a village. But this is trouble Sknyatina did not end: during the construction of the Uglich reservoir, both the village and the earthen fortifications remaining from the city-fortress were flooded. Thus, today there are only the station of the same name on the railway with a dozen houses, and an island on the Volga. But for many lovers fishing on the Uglich reservoir starts right from Sknyatino . Because of the famous fishing base Sknyatino.

In the village of Novookatovo, located downstream of the Volga, since 1750 there was the estate of the Russian writer, playwright and educator D.I. Fonvizin (1745–1792). The manor building has not been preserved. On the site of the former estate of the writer, today there is a rest house "Fonvizino".

In front of the Kashinsky railway bridge, in a grove on the right bank, a chapel rises - this is the village of Nikitskoye, known since 1520 from the letter of Prince Yuri Ivanovich about granting the monastery the villages of Isakovo, Fedyushino ..., Smertino and Nikitskoye. Since the 90s XVIII century the village of Nikitekoe belonged to the landowners Ushakovs, with whom in 1827 - 1830. was friendly with A.S. Pushkin, who, according to folk tradition, though not confirmed by any documents, allegedly visited the village. Nikitsky. Here is a bust of the poet.

Chapel of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village. Nikitskoye was erected in the summer of 2002 on the site of a building that existed here from 1785 until the end of the 1930s. Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. According to confessional paintings, XVIII century: "Previously there were two churches: 1) Transfiguration, 2) Nikitskaya." According to the statement about the Church of the Kazan Mother of God with. Nikitsky Kalyazinsky district for 1890: “Built in 1785, with the care of the parishioners. The building is stone, with the same bell tower - strong. There are three thrones in it: the first in the name of the Kazan Mother of God - cold, the second - in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the third in the name of the Great Martyr Nikita - warm. Utensils are sufficient, sacristy things are mediocre, are in order and cleanliness. Church in the village Nikitskoye was dismantled in the late 30s of the twentieth century before being flooded by the waters of the Uglich reservoir in 1940. There was a cemetery near the church, which has survived to this day. Many residents of the village are buried there. Nikitskoye and the villages of the parish. Many of the landowners Ushakovs are also buried there.

The idea of ​​building a chapel belongs to Alexander Alekseevich Kolosov from Kalyazin, who, after an injury, lost the ability to move. When seven long years of training did not lead to anything, he remained chained to a wheelchair. But he retained his fortitude and desire to be useful to people. He began to look for his place in life, until he realized that he wanted to tell everyone about his beautiful land, about himself and the people around him. Then canvases, brushes, paints appeared in the house. Thus, the meaning of all the activities of Alexander Kolosov was the return of the memory of the lost. Over the past fifteen years, he has painted dozens of paintings depicting Kalyazin churches. I sat over the old yellowed photographs from the local museum of local lore, looking at every detail through a magnifying glass, and scrupulously recreated the appearance of the temples in all their former splendor. Gradually, with the help of his brush, all the temples of the Kalyazinsky region came to life: both those that are now in a dilapidated state, and those that were completely destroyed, went under water, like the city of Kitezh, during the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric power station. Working on images of lost churches, he dreamed of restoring temples in reality. This is how the artist decided to build a chapel in the village of Nikitskoye, on the site of the destroyed Kazan Church. Kolosov's idea might seem impossible, but this man has the gift of igniting the flame of enthusiasm in people. Like-minded people, philanthropists appeared, and in a year and a half a brick chapel on the high bank of the Volga was built, decorated with mosaics and paintings. On September 22, 2002, Archpriest Yevgeny Morkovin, Dean of the Kimrsky District, performed the rite of consecration of the cross installed on the dome of the chapel. On July 29, 2003, after the interior and exterior painting of the chapel was completed, it was consecrated by the Archbishop of Tver and Kashin Victor. The interior paintings are made in the Alfresco technique on the theme of the life of Macarius Kalyazinsky and Anna Kashinskaya.

On the so-called Kashin railway bridge across the Volga, a railway runs from Savelov to Kashin, Sonkovo, Vesyegonsk. The bridge was built back in 1920 according to the project of engineer F.N. Mamontov. Immediately after the bridge on the left, the Kashinka River flows into the Volga. From the height of the Kashinskiy Bridge, a magnificent view of the islands, forests, and the mouth of the Kashinka River opens up. It is here, next to the huge power transmission towers standing in the water, carrying lines of powerful wires over the Volga, that you can especially clearly imagine the scale of the change in the Volga channel. After the bridge, the Volga forms a steep arc, on which the large village of Ustye Kashinskoye and the Sergius estate were located before flooding. In the village of Kashinsky-Ustye there was the Church of the Intercession, built in 1782, wooden, cold, thrones 3: the main one of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, the 2nd Prophet Elijah, the 3rd Mary of Egypt. At this church, in 1893, a warm stone single-altar church of St. Nicholas was built in 1893 in 100 sazhens. Today there is a large stretch of the Uglich reservoir. Near the spill, you can see the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (1732), built by the heirs of the boyars Kozhins, who owned the surrounding lands back in the 15th century. After the creation of the reservoir, the lower reaches of Kashinka turned into a wide bay of the Uglich Sea, and the city of Kashin, located ten kilometers higher, became a river port.

The ancient Russian city of Kashin, the regional center of the Tver region, is located upstream on the banks of the Kashinka and its tributaries, on green hills between winding rivers and floods. The population is about 20 thousand people. Kashin was first mentioned under 1238 among the cities ravaged by the hordes of Batu. Since 1317, it has been an impregnable fortress, the capital of a specific principality with a rich history. In 1426 it was annexed to Tver, and in 1485 to Moscow. In 1609–1612, the seedy Kashin was destroyed by the Poles. Since 1775 - the county town of the Tver province. In the XVIII-XIX centuries. - trading, craft and religious center. Thousands of pilgrims from all over Rus' flocked to Kashin to worship the relics of St. Anna of Kashin. Since 1884, Kashin has become a balneological resort. A.P. lived in Kashin. Kunitsyn, professor of the Tsarkoselsky lyceum, teacher A.S. Pushkin, and E.A. Lavrovskaya, singer, professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In Kashin, the Dmitrovsky, Sretensky, Nikolaevsky-Klobukov monasteries and many churches have been preserved.

As if under the pressure of Kashinka, the Volga makes a sharp turn to the right and heads towards Kalyazin, a city almost as ancient as Kashin, another traditional center of the shoe industry, in particular, boot felting.

The city of Kalyazin is the regional center of the Tver region. The population is about 15 thousand people. Kalyazin is located on the right side of the steep bend of the Volga, at the confluence of the river. Toad. Opposite the city center, a bell tower rises 70 meters above the water, once standing next to the St. Nicholas Cathedral, which was destroyed. The market square of the city, on which the cathedral stood, was flooded, and the bell tower, miraculously preserved, became Kalyazin's hallmark and serves as a guide for navigators. A settlement on the site of modern Kalyazin arose in the 12th century. In 1454, the Trinity (Makarevsky) Monastery was founded on the left bank of the Volga. In 1466, the well-known Tver merchant Athanasius Nikitin visited the monastery for a blessing to go beyond the three seas. Ivan the Terrible visited Kalyadin more than once and presented the Gospel to the monastery. In 1610, the Russian-Swedish army under the command of M.V. Skopin-Shuisky defeated the main forces of the Poles and Tushino near Kalyazin and lifted the siege of the Trinity Monastery. Kalyazin was a prosperous trade and crafts town on the Upper Volga. Shipbuilding, blacksmithing, boot-fingering, and lace-making flourished here. In 1938-1941, during the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric complex, most of the city was flooded, the Trinity Monastery and St. Nicholas Cathedral were destroyed. Many residents were sent to the Karelo-Finnish Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The city has lost its former glory and significance. Today, the Epiphany Church beyond the river has been preserved in the city. Zhabnya and two more temples, as well as several interesting houses. Kalyazinsky land is associated with the names of many figures of national culture: Pallady Rogovsky, M.N. Ermolova, D.I. Fonvizin, I.A. Krylov and M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin.

After Kalyazin, the Volga again turns sharply to the northeast. Eight kilometers from the city, the reservoir flooded the village of Gorodishchi, located on the left bank of the Volga, with the churches of the Epiphany (1896) and Alexander Nevsky (1865). The name of the village testifies to the existence of a fortified town in this place. Excavations in 1939 showed that this place was inhabited in ancient times by the tribes of the “Dyakovo” archaeological culture of the early Iron Age. What could it be - the Volga estate of local landowners or the legendary Svyatoslavl Pole, where in 1339 the Tver prince Alexander Mikhailovich said goodbye to his relatives, setting off on his fateful journey to death in the Horde? and 8 partially, and 12 churches were destroyed in the flood zone.

Fifteen kilometers from Gorodishchi, near the village of Priluki, the river crosses the border of the Yaroslavl region. In the village, above the left bank of the wide Volga reach, the Church of the Nativity of Christ (1758) rises, marking the historical Suzdal-Novgorod, and then Moscow-Tver border. At the beginning of the 15th century, the Nativity Prilutsky Monastery, which arose in the Uglich possessions of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, was located on this site. Here, a part of the ancient cemetery, where the monks and peasants of the monastic patrimony found their rest, went into the water.

The mouth of the Puksha River after the flooding of the reservoir turned into a large bay. In the village of Krasnoe there is the Resurrection Church (XVIII century). And in the village of Knyazhevo - Smolensk Church (1842). In the village of Kotovo - the Assumption Church (1807). In the village of Novoselki, the Grehozaruchenskoe settlement is located at the beginning of our era.

The Uglich hydroelectric complex, which includes an earthen and spillway dam, a hydroelectric power station building and a single-chamber lock, was built in 1940. It was he who formed the Uglich reservoir. Above the gateway is a triumphal arch in honor of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The dimensions of the lock: 210x30x5.5 m. Head 12 m. Above the lower gate of the lock there is a motor road. To the left of the hydroelectric facilities, on the outlet canal, stands the Grigorievskoye estate. There is one local legend associated with this estate. According to him, Catherine II, when visiting Uglich, was introduced to the local landowner, Lieutenant-General Grigoriev, with whom she connected her secret calculation. Grigoriev was supposed to play the role of the "father" of young Olga, the illegitimate daughter of the late Elizabeth Petrovna, in order to exclude her possible claims to the throne. It was decided to marry Olga to the leader of the Uglich nobility N.A. Suponiev. For Grigoriev, as a dowry of his "daughter", with the money of Catherine, a palace was built. Grigorievskoye is a good example of strictly classical manor architecture. In front of the palace was a park with pavilions and ponds. Now the estate is in disrepair, and a lock channel has been laid through the park. Behind the Uglich hydroelectric complex, having sunk 12 m in it, the ships enter the Rybinsk reservoir on the Volga. The city of Uglich, spread out along the right bank of the steep radiant Volga, is already located on the banks of this reservoir.

The city of Uglich is the regional center of the Yaroslavl region. The population is about 39 thousand people. One of the oldest cities in Russia. Known since 937, first mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle under 1148. Since 1218 it has been the capital of the Uglich principality. In 1238 it was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars. In 1329 it was annexed to Moscow. In 1584, according to the will of Ivan the Terrible, he was given as an inheritance to his youngest son, Tsarevich Dimitri, who was the last appanage prince in Rus'. The death of Tsarevich Dimitry in Uglich on May 15, 1591 had a huge impact on the future fate of Russia. In 1608-1611 the city was destroyed by the Poles, the population was almost completely destroyed. Since 1777 - the county town of the Yaroslavl province. In Soviet times, the Chaika watch factory, known throughout the USSR, as well as the Scientific Research Institute of Buttermaking and Cheesemaking, was located in Uglich. On the territory of the Kremlin, the chambers of Tsarevich Dimitri (1480), the Church of Dimitri "on the blood" (1683), the Transfiguration Cathedral (1713) have been preserved; on the territory of the Alekseevsky Monastery - the unique "Divnoe" Assumption three-hipped church (1628) and the Church of John the Baptist (1681); on the territory of the Epiphany Monastery - the Epiphany Cathedral (1827), Fedorovskaya (1818) and Smolensk (1700) churches; Resurrection Monastery (1674), Churches of the Nativity of John the Baptist (1690), Kazanskaya (1788), Korsunskaya (1730), monuments of civil architecture of the 18th–19th centuries. The city beach is located on the territory of the Kremlin. There is a boat station. On the embankment for tourists, a sale of various souvenirs is organized.

Almost along the entire Uglich reservoir there is a railway line Savelovo-Uglich with a branch in Kalyazin to Sonkovo.

At the end of the 19th century, the Moscow-Yaroslavl-Arkhangelsk railway began the construction of the Verkhnevolzhsky railway radius. In 1900, the Moscow-Savelovo line was put into operation. Traffic to Kalyazin was opened only in 1919. Since 1920, regular communication with Rybinsk and Vesyegonsk began, and in the mid-30s traffic was opened to Uglich. Finally, the construction of the Ovinishche-Mga line, which was completed in the 1950s, made the Savelovskaya branch a reserve double of the Moscow-Leningrad railway. At the Savelovo station, for a long time, cargo was transshipped onto punts, from where they were transported along the Volga to Rybinsk and then transferred to barges. Starting from 1940, after the implementation of the Big Volga general plan as a result of the construction of the Ivankovsky, Uglichsky and Rybinsk hydroelectric facilities, the Volga became navigable to Tver, thus, the need to transport large cargoes along the Savelovskaya branch disappeared.

In 1978, the Verbilki-Savyolovo section was electrified, which made it possible to connect with Moscow by electric trains. Further, the savelov movement is carried out on diesel traction. With Kalyazin, Uglich, Kashin, Sonkovo ​​suburban communication is organized by "working" trains with diesel traction.

The members of our feeder team have long had the idea to take a break from bottom fishing at least in winter and get out somewhere to fish from the ice. The choice fell on the Uglich reservoir.

R fishing at the Uglich reservoir was completely unfamiliar to us, so we decided to take the whole arsenal of gear with us - float fishing rods, and mormyshkas, "devils" and other evil spirits, before leaving, I carefully studied the map of the depths of the reservoir, downloading it from the Internet.

WITH Judging by the map, the section of the Uglich reservoir, where we planned to fish, simply abounded with promising places for finding fish. This is a channel with depths up to 19 m; and dumps on which a predator can fatten; and extensive irrigation with a depth of 5-6 meters, where the most diverse fish go to feed; and various mounds and pits. Having received the position, I combined it with satellite photographs of the area (they are also available on the Internet) and developed a proposed route for finding fish.

P First of all, using satellite photography, I found a characteristic landmark on the opposite shore, which can be visually detected from the exit to the ice, and in the direction of which there is the maximum number of promising fishing spots of various types. Then he drew a line on the resulting map from the place of exit to the ice to the landmark and entered into the GPS navigator all the interesting points that are located on it. Then I measured the distances between promising places in case the navigator for some reason does not work or starts to show a large error (this also happens). Now, knowing the distance in meters between the points and having a landmark on the opposite bank, it will be possible to reach them without an electronic assistant.

P why did I try to fit all the interesting points exactly in the line? Everything is simple - so that, without scattering around, purposefully conduct a search along it, and thus save time and effort. The line is drawn in such a way that it intersects almost all elements of the relief that seem promising.

The choice of ice drills for fishing on the Uglich reservoir.

P The fundamental moment was the choice of the “right” ones. Since we were driving to a new reservoir for exploration, it was obvious that many holes would have to be drilled. Armed with ice drills "Nero" from VOLZHANKA. They equally easily drill both dry and water-soaked ice, and if anything (anything happens in reconnaissance - you can “cut your way into the bottom”) - knives are easy to replace. Spare parts are inexpensive and readily available. In addition, the steel from which the knives are made is such that one hit on the bottom, if it is not stone, will not render them unusable. Knives were taken for hole diameters of 130 and 150 mm, since, first of all, they counted on bream and bream. On this, the main preparation for the departure was completed.

H our team arrived at the place in the evening on the eve of fishing at the Uglich reservoir. Together, over a cup of evening tea, we discussed a map of the depths of the Uglich reservoir, developed a plan for finding fish. My buddies planned to fish for a channel dump that runs almost immediately from the right bank, from which we will go out onto the ice. The bottom there, according to information received from the local population, is pebbly and gravel, and bites of predatory fish can be expected on it. They decided to fish with a balancer and a jig with a bait. I decided to cross the channel and try to feed the white fish at several points at once: in the channel at the bottom of the slope, at the exit for irrigation - on the upper edge, on the nearby "navel", and behind it, in the depression between the "navel" and the rise of the bottom to the opposite shore. We agreed that if the activity of fish at the fed points is not immediately detected, we will not sit back and look for luck around with the "devil" and the balancer.

At trom, like the heroes of the famous Gaidai film, “acted according to a predetermined plan”: my friends remained near the shore to catch the near riverbed, and I went towards the marked point, to the other side of the channel - to the Black Stones. Having reached approximately the place where the ascent from the channel for irrigation was supposed to begin, he began to drill holes and measure the depth.

Depth gauge for winter fishing

I I use . It is a fishing rod with a whip removed, on the reel of which a 0.3 mm line is wound. The last 20 m of the line every meter are marked with silicone stoppers used in feeder rigs as fender stops for feeders in sliding mounting. These stoppers move along the line with strong friction, and therefore hold quite firmly in place, marking meters. They are quite small and do not interfere with the line passing through the first ring, which is located on the rod near the reel.

H and at the end of the fishing line at my depth gauge there is a large loop, into which you can attach both a load (it is also a cutter) and a feeder. Having drilled a hole, I press the reel brake release button, slow down its spool with my finger, and the sinker freely sinks to the bottom, dragging the fishing line with it. How many stoppers-marks went under water - such is the depth in this place.

D Very quickly, having drilled a dozen and a half holes located on the very straight line that I drew on the map at home, I found all the depths that interested me. At the bottom of the slope, the depth turned out to be 13 m, at the top - about 5 m. Between these two points, about 25-30 m on ice. Further, after 100 meters, as expected, a deepening of up to 6 m followed, after which the ascent began again, continuing to the shore. The bottom was clay everywhere, quite soft. After the points were approximately found, I drilled 4 control holes around each to make sure that I did not hit the stall itself or some local change in depth. Yes, I had to drill a lot, but the ice drill did not disappoint - it confidently bit into dense ice and did not require much effort when working.

Baiting holes for fishing at the Uglich reservoir

W finished with the measurements,
I started feeding the selected points. I used the simplest bait: a mixture of equal parts of pure small (not firth) fodder bloodworm, UNIBAIT Krot-Premium earth and small breadcrumbs interspersed with multi-colored large pieces from the same company.

M Many people use "dirty bloodworm" rather than a mixture of bloodworm and earth. In my experience, this is not the best solution. Mud is silt, the composition of which may not be liked by the inhabitants of other reservoirs at all. And such bait can not only not attract, but also scare away the fish. Therefore, I prefer to purchase bloodworms and earth separately.

G I do not buy the first runt that comes across, but I choose. If it contains earthworm waste, then it is attractive to fish in itself, and if it also has a good black color, it will darken the bait as a whole and provide contrast at the bottom with large particles of crackers. In each well, I lowered a feeder of this mixture. I fed two on the riverbed: one - immediately under the dump, the second - 10 m from it, where it was a little deeper. I fed the next hole at the very edge of the brow, another one at the top of the “navel”, and two in the recess behind it.

X I want to dwell in more detail on one small but important nuance of feeding. After the feeder has sunk to the bottom, it should be carefully so that it does not open, lift it up, hold it above the bottom for some time, and only then shake it out. The fact is that the feeder does not have the best shape in terms of hydrodynamics, and when lowered, it necessarily goes away from the vertical. The magnitude of this deviation can be quite significant, and then the bait will be away from the fishing point.

Fishing at the Uglich reservoir

P After baiting, I installed a float rod in each of the selected holes. Nozzle - a bunch of bloodworms. Knowing from experience that there is usually no bite right away, I decided to go for a run, look for fish in the surrounding holes with the “devil”. Having passed successively along the line all the unfed (auxiliary) holes, I recorded several careful “pokes”. And although no one was hooked, it gave hope that there were fish here. It took about 30-40 minutes. It's time to check if the fish came up for bait. On the riverbed, we managed to catch only a podershik. On the edge, a perch of 70 grams was caught. But in the holes drilled above the recess, scavengers pecked. The conclusion suggested itself - it is necessary to catch there! I report on the situation to my friends who remained on the other side of the riverbed. They came across rare perches and brushes there. They put a few vents, but there are no bites on them. I call them to me, but so far they refuse to go - they dream of finding their own fish.

ABOUT I base myself on one of the fishing holes, in which the bream is actively pecking. I catch one, the second, the fifth... Gradually the fish becomes smaller, the bream is replaced by the bream.

D feed the hole. The fish immediately stops pecking, but betrays its presence. The float is twitching all the time, which means that someone in the depths touches the fishing line. In principle, this is how it should be after supplementary feeding, when a vast “glade” is richly covered under the hole. At this point, the fish is not interested in a separate bloodworm. Well, let's leave this hole alone for a while, but for now let's check the rest.
On the "navel" roach and white bream begin to peck at the "devil". She attacks him viciously, almost knocking the bait out of her hands. At the top of the dump, a perch “hung itself” on a float rod, another ruff caught below. And in the riverbed, someone ate the bait from the hook with impunity. The buddies who were looking for fish on the other side of the channel give up and decide to move closer to me.

WITH Over time, bigger fish come up. It hardly crawls into holes 130 mm wide. For reconnaissance, they are not needed wider, and now there is little time left until the evening - there is no point in drilling, because the noise will scare away the scavengers.

G the depth in the catch hole increases. This is a sure sign that a lot of active bream, and possibly bream, have gathered at the fishing point, which are digging up the ground in search of food. With a rather soft bottom (and here it just turned out to be just that) for 6-7 hours of fishing with bait, the depth under the hole increases by an average of 2-3 cm!

AND occasionally, despite a good bite, I check the hole in the riverbed. And everything is still there: someone steadily eats the nozzle, but is not detected. To find out what's the matter, one of the friends decides to go there, who was catching a scavenger next to me. Still, the purpose of the trip is reconnaissance, not fish harvesting. After some time, it turns out that there, on the channel, a scavenger approached. There he pecks less often, but there is no very small and white bream, which is present in the recess behind the "navel".

H our third comrade set up several vents in different places of the relief, using the caught roach as live bait. Alas, none of them have worked so far. Meanwhile, it begins to get dark, it's time to go to the shore.

We collect all the caught fish in one bag, and it turns out about 10 kg. Very good for fishing in an unfamiliar body of water. In the catch there are specimens of 500-600 g each, but the main fish is a sculpin weighing 200-300 g. Roach and perch are by-catch today.

The test run was a success. My tactic of fishing for an unfamiliar body of water worked. Now you can go here thoroughly, with an overnight stay and tents, crush bream - places where you can expect it have been found. Along the way, we will continue to look for places to exit the predator, which this time did not honor us with its attention.

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