Lake Otradnoye (; ) is a

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Karelian Isthmus The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the we ...

, in the

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, south of the town of

Priozersk Priozersk (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Priozersky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, at the estuary of the northern armlet of the Vuoksi River on the Karelian Isthmus. It i ...

. It is in area and its

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is . Lake Otradnoye is the source of the Pionerka (Pyhäjöki) River which flows westward to drain into

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, which in turn drains into the Vesyolaya River, a tributary of the

Vuoksi River The Vuoksi (, historically: "Uzerva"; ; ; ) is a river running through the northernmost part of the Karelian Isthmus from Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland to Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia. The river enters Lake Ladoga in three branches ...

. It belongs to the basin of

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, about to the east. The main tributary is the River Luchik, flowing southward. It has an irregular shape, with two bays separated by a peninsula, and several islands including the largest, Barsukovy and Troynoy. The shores are populated with the settlements of Otradnoye, Plodovoye, Uralskoye, Solnechnoye, Kutuzovskoye, Yablonovka, Krasnopolye and Tsvetkovo. Roads run along all shores except the eastern one. A stretch of the A129 highway connecting

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and

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via Priozersk runs along the western shore, whereas other local roads have access to A129, as well as to the shore of Lake Ladoga. The

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runs along the western shore, too, with Otradnoye platform near the lakeshore.

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