Lake Sukhodolskoye (russian: Суходольское озеро; fi, Suvanto-järvi ) is a narrow 40 km long lake on the
Karelian Isthmus
The Karelian Isthmus (russian: Карельский перешеек, Karelsky peresheyek; fi, Karjalankannas; sv, Karelska näset) is the approximately stretch of land, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern ...
located in
Priozersky District
Priozersky District (russian: Приозерский район) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #50-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and bor ...
of
Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast ( rus, Ленинградская область, Leningradskaya oblast’, lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, , ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It was established on 1 August 1927, although it was not until 194 ...
,
Russia
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. It is a part of the
Vuoksi River basin, constituting its southern armlet, and drained by
Burnaya River
The Burnaya (, ) is a young rapid river in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the Karelian Isthmus, which emerged in 1818. It flows from Lake Sukhodolskoye to Lake Ladoga and is a part of Vuoksi River drainage basin. Before the Wi ...
.
Originally waters of the lake flowed into the Vuoksi through a waterway at
Kiviniemi. However, in 1818 the channel that had been dug to drain spring flood waters from the lake into
Lake Ladoga unexpectedly turned into Taipaleenjoki (Burnaya River), which started draining the lake itself and decreased its level by 7 m. The Kiviniemi waterway dried out. In 1857 a channel was dug there, but the stream reversed direction, revealed
rapids and rendered navigation at Kiviniemi impossible. Since 1857 Lake Sukhodolskoye and Burnaya River have constituted the southern armlet of Vuoksi River, which has decreased the level of the original northern armlet flowing through
Priozersk by 4 m.
Archaeology
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, stray finds of
Stone Age artifacts were found on the shores of the lake.
Further exploration revealed 190 finds from the shores of the lake and another fifty from the exposed bottom of the lake, including stone tools such as axes and adzes. Due to the large number of stone tools found in one place, it is believed that they were deposited there deliberately, as seen at other Stone Age sites in northern Europe and Russia.
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