Lake Peipus

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Lake Peipus

Lake Peipsi-Pihkva , sometimes also called Peipus (; (Chudskoe-Pskovskoe), ) is the biggest transboundary

International waters

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and fourth largest fresh water lake in Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, on the border between Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
(part of European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
) and Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
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The lake is fourth largest in Europe after Lake Ladoga

Lake Ladoga

Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the list of lakes by area in the world....
and Lake Onega

Lake Onega

Lake Onega is a lake in Russia. Its surface area is 9,894 km?, its volume is 280 km?, its maximum depth is 120 m. It has 1,369 islands with a total area of 250 km?....
in Russia north of St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
and Lake Vänern

Vänern

V?nern is the largest lake in Sweden and the third largest lake in Europe. It is located in the Provinces of Sweden of V?sterg?tland, Dalsland, and V?rmland....
in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
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Lake Peipsi-Pihkva is a remnant of a bigger body of water which existed in this area during an Ice Age

Ice age

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Lake Peipsi-Pihkva , sometimes also called Peipus (; (Chudskoe-Pskovskoe), ) is the biggest transboundary

International waters

Europe

Estonia

European Union

Russia

Lake Ladoga

Lake Onega

Saint Petersburg

Vänern

V?nern is the largest lake in Sweden and the third largest lake in Europe. It is located in the Provinces of Sweden of V?sterg?tland, Dalsland, and V?rmland....
in Sweden

Sweden

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
. It covers 3,500 km², and has an average depth of 7 m, the deepest point being 15 m. The lake has several islands and consists of 3 parts:

Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe () is the Northern part of the lake. It covers 2670 km².

Lake Pihkva/Pskovskoe () is the Southern part of the lake. It covers 710 km².

Lake Lämmijärv/Teploe () is the sound connecting both parts of the lake. It covers 170 km².

The lake is used for fishing and recreation, but suffered from some environmental degradation from Soviet era agriculture. Some 30 rivers and streams discharge into the Lake Peipus. Largest rivers are Emajõgi

Emajõgi

The Emaj?gi is a river in Estonia which flows from V?rtsj?rv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km. It has a length of 101 km....
and Velikaya River

Velikaya River

For the Velikaya river in Far East Siberia, see Velikaya River .Velikaya River is located in western Russia . It starts in highlands in the south of Pskov Oblast, flows north through the cities of Opochka, Ostrov, and Pskov into Lake Peipus, which is drained by the Narva River....
. Lake is drained by Narva River

Narva River

Narva is a major river flowing into the Baltic Sea, the largest river in Estonia. Draining the Lake Peipsi, the river flows on the border of Estonia and Russia through the cities of Narva/Ivangorod and Narva-J?esuu into Narva Bay....
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In 1242 it was the site of the Battle of Lake Peipus (known in Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
as Battle on the Ice) between the Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Knights

The Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem , or for short the Teutonic Order was a Germans Roman Catholic religious order....
and Novgorodians under Alexander Nevski.

External links

Estonian tourist information website