🌳 Black Lake (Chornoye Ozero)

Косинский природно-исторический парк

A small glacial lake surrounded by sphagnum bogs and pines — a natural monument.

Until the 1940s Black Lake was the smallest of the Kosino lakes, but after peat extraction on its shores it grew considerably.
In the north of the lake the remains of a lowland bog survive, with bog arum and other plants rare for the Moscow region.
The water in the lake is cold and brownish; it is fed by bottom springs, and floating islands drift near the shores.
In 1999 a flamethrower tank based on the T-34, which had fallen through the ice in December 1942, was raised from the bottom.
The raised tank was restored and is now in running order — at the Uralvagonzavod museum.

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