Do you know that the Kyiv Sea is on the list of the most dangerous objects on the planet? It remains only to guess whether there are mermaids in it. We selected 5 interesting facts to surprise you.
- It was necessary, roughly speaking, to withdraw 16 million cubic meters of land to create an artificial sea! The maximum depth of the reservoir is 16-18 meters. Amazing things still are got from its bottom … For example, the tank of the Second World War. Take into account that the area of the reservoir is almost 1000 km, there are still many echoes of war under turbid water. The most dangerous are shells and mines.
- The Kyiv Sea unwittingly became a buffer zone between the Prypiat and the Dnieper rivers after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, so a lot of radioactive cesium and strontium have gathered on its day. Radiation has not disappeared anywhere – it just drowses in a silt.
- It is felt that Joseph Stalin participated in the design of the Kyiv dam. Engineers told the chieftain, in case of lifting a dam for 30 meters the output of water will be so devastating and the flow will reach Turkey, so the hydroelectric plant can become an impassable barrier to the enemy’s path.
- Why is the water reservoir becoming “the sea”? The territory was not carefully prepared before filling with water at the beginning the construction of the hydroelectric power station. Biologists have observed changes in the content of minerals in recent years: the concentration of salt in the water increases, that’s why the plants and animals that are characteristic of the Black Sea have come to life here. Among them – seaweed, fish-needle and black Sea seal.
- Environmentalists do not recommend swimming in the Kyiv Sea. Water warms up to +30°C and begins to blossom in hot weather. The fish is dying, and the rat-mouses are here. And you know what infections they spread… And do not forget about the radiation about which we wrote above.Book an apartment for rent in Kyiv and go on a trip along the Kyiv Sea.
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