Lake Pyasino (russian: Пясино) is a large freshwater lake in Krasnoyarsk Krai, north-central part of Russia. It is located at and has an area of 735 km². Many rivers empty into the lake, including the Ambarnaya. Water from the lake emerges as the river Pyasina. Pyasino freezes up in October and stays icebound until June.
Environmental pollution
As the recipient of polluted wastewater from Norilsk Nickel's metallurgical plants, it is almost completely devoid of fish.
Environmental studies
Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. Environmental studies connects principles from the physical sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities, and social ...
has been performed and comparative analysis of the data on heavy metal concentrations, namely Cu, Ni, Zn, Cd and Hg, in fish ( burbot),
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...
,
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.periphyton, hydric soils and snow in vicinity of
Norilsk
Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk, ''Norílʹsk'') is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norils ...
and further out in the most northern parts of the
Taymyr Peninsula
The Taymyr Peninsula (russian: Таймырский полуостров, Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administrat ...