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Kapylyushi () or Kapylyushy is a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District,
Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been administered as part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018. To its nort ...
,
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. The name originated in an Evenki word. The lake is located in the northwestern corner of the
Vitim Plateau Vitim Plateau is a plateau in Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The plateau is sparsely populated; the main settlements are Romanovka, Republic of Buryatia, Romanovka and Bagdarin. An area of the plateau is an ancient volcanic field with a ...
, near the left bank of river Tsipikan, of the
Vitim Vitim () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities * Vitim, Sakha Republic, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lensky District of the Sakha Republic * Vitim, Republic of Buryatia, a rural locality (a ...
river basin. Together with lake
Baunt Baunt (; , ''Baunt nuur'') is the name of a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The village of Kurort Baunt, where there are some hot springs, is located on the southwestern shore of the lake, at the foot of Mt Bol ...
it belongs to the "Tsipo-Tsipikansky" (Ципо-Ципиканских) lake group —after rivers
Tsipa The Tsipa () is the largest tributary of the Vitim in Buryatia, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Maksim Perfilyev was the first Russian to reach the Tsipa in 1640. Perch, pike, lenok, grayling, taimen and whitefish are also ...
and Tsipikan, which is also known as Bauntovsky (Баунтовских) —after lake
Baunt Baunt (; , ''Baunt nuur'') is the name of a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The village of Kurort Baunt, where there are some hot springs, is located on the southwestern shore of the lake, at the foot of Mt Bol ...
. The study of the whole lake area began only in the 1930s in the course of an expedition of the
Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yenisey, Yenisey River, and is the second-largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk, with a p ...
branch of the Research Institute of Freshwater Fisheries of the USSR. The results of the research were published in 1936 in the Handbook of Water Resources of the USSR.


Geography

The Kapylyushi lake system has two parts: Big Kapylyushi (Bolshoy Kapylyushi or Oron) is the larger lake in the west, and Kapyluchikan (), also known as Little Kapylyushi, the smaller one in the east. There is a narrow
landspit A spit (cognate with the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. It develops in places where re-entrance occurs, such as at a cove's headlands, by the process of longshore drift ...
between them as well as a channel connecting both lakes. A much smaller lake is located to the east of Kapyluchikan. To the south flows the Tsipikan river among marshes. In seasons of heavy rainfall the level of the Tsipikan rises and overflows its banks, reaching the lakes. The Kapylyushi lakes are located below the eastern foothills of the Ikat Range, between the
Bolshoy Khapton The Bolshoy Khapton () is a mountain range in Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The nearest airport is Bagdarin Airport.Google Earth Geography This mountain range is located in the northeastern part of the Vitim Plateau. It stretches from s ...
in the northeast and the
Maly Khapton The Bolshoy Khapton () is a mountain range in Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The nearest airport is Bagdarin Airport.Google Earth Geography This mountain range is located in the northeastern part of the Vitim Plateau. It stretches from ...
to the south.Oron (Big Kapilyushi) - Water of Russia
/ref> The village of Okunevo is located at the southern end of the landspit separating the two lakes. The water of the lake is cold and barely warms in the summer. The Kapylyushi usually freezes at the end of October and stays under ice until the second half of June.


Flora and fauna

Aquatic plants such as ''
Potamogeton ''Potamogeton'' is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. Most are known by the common name pondweed, although many unrelated plants may be called pondweed, such as Canadian pondweed (''Elodea canadensis' ...
'', ''
Myriophyllum ''Myriophyllum'' (water milfoil) is a genus of about 69 species of freshwater aquatic plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The centre of diversity for ''Myriophyllum'' is Australia with 43 recognized species (37 endemic). These submersed aq ...
'' and longroot smartweed grow in shallow areas of the lake system in the summer.
Amphipods Amphipoda () is an order (biology), order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphip ...
,
chironomid Chironomidae , commonly known as non-biting midges or chironomids , are a family of Nematoceran flies with a global distribution. They are closely related to the families Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, and Thaumaleidae. Although many chironomid s ...
and caddis larvae, as well as crustaceans, gastropods, and bivalve molluscs inhabit the bottom of the lake. Fishing is an important industry, especially whitefish species, which include the Baunt whitefish''
Coregonus lavaretus ''Coregonus lavaretus'' is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus '' Coregonus''. There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species ''Coregonus lavaretus'' and abo ...
'' (subspecies baunti), as well as a rare local spring-spawning whitefish variety.Morphological, ecological and mtDNA sequence variation in coregonid fish from the Baunt Lake system (the Vitim River basin)
/ref> Other fish species living in the waters of the Kapylyushi are
perch Perch is a common name for freshwater fish from the genus ''Perca'', which belongs to the family Percidae of the large order Perciformes. The name comes from , meaning the type species of this genus, the European perch (''P. fluviatilis'') ...
, pike,
ruffe The ruffe (''Gymnocephalus cernua''), also known as the Eurasian ruffe or pope, is a freshwater fish found in temperate regions of Europe and northern Asia. It has been introduced into the Great Lakes of North America as an invasive species ...
,
burbot The burbot (''Lota lota''), also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of ...
, spiny loach, lake minnow and
Alpine bullhead The alpine bullhead or Siberian bullhead (''Cottus poecilopus'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cottidae of sculpins. It is found in China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, North Korea, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romani ...
.


See also

*
List of lakes of Russia List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: * Achchyon (Аччён) * Akush (Акуш) * Arakhley (Арахле́й) * Astrodym (Астродым) * Baikal (Байкал) * Bakhmatovskoye (Бахматовское) * Baunt (Баунт) * Ba ...


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Поездка на озеро Орон (север Бурятии) на рыбалку в марте 2012 г. Завершение.Geography of tourism in the Republic of Buryatia
Kapylyushi Bauntovsky District