Lake Water Resources in the Asian Part of the Russian Federation

Water resources of lakes with natural and regulated hydrological regime are evaluated, and estimates are given to the water resources of artificial water bodies in three federal districts in the Asian part of RF (Ural, Siberian, and Far-Eastern) and the constituent entities of the Federation they contain. The estimates were made by a new procedure, incorporating up-to-date satellite data and functions of Google Earth project. In the Asian part of RF, ~3140000 natural water bodies were analyzed, including ~1170000 lakes >1 ha in area and ~6000 artificial water bodies. Lake water resources in the Asian part of RF amount to 24537 km³, of which ~96% are contained in Lake Baikal. Other 638 km³ are contained in artificial water bodies.     

Lake Area Percentage in Russian Federation Territory and Its Governing Factors

Water Resources - An array of data collected in the Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, in the course of studies aimed to evaluate the total water surface areas has been used to...     

Lake water resources of the European part of the Russian Federation

The article gives the results of estimating lake water resources for federal districts in European Russia and constituent entities of the Federation, carried out in the Institute of Limnology, RAS, with the use of up-to-date satellite images and the program Google Earth. European Russia contains ~610000 natural water bodies >0.1 ha in area, including ~200000 lakes >1 ha in area, and 90000 water bodies of artificial origin. Lake water resources of European Russia amount to 1370 km³ of water, of which 99% are in Northwestern Federal District. Artificial water bodies contain ~250 km³ of water resources.     

Water Resources of Natural and Artificial Water Bodies in Europe

Water Resources - The reserves of natural and artificial water bodies in Europe were evaluated using a new procedure which had been developed for Russian territory and upgraded for the territories...     

Water resources of the Lakes of Russia

Presented are the results from qualitatively assessing the water resources of the lakes of the RF for all of the federal districts and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation involved in them. The assessment was made in the Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, following an ingenious technique that implies using real-time satellite-acquired data and the capabilities of the Google Earth program. Within the RF, interpretation covered the water bodies of different origins (either natural or artificial), including the lakes with a surface area of more than 0.01 km². As a result, data were obtained for the volume of water resources contained in the water bodies of the RF, having a natural origin. It was found that, in spite of the huge lake resources, their distribution across the country’s territory is extremely uneven and is weakly correlated with the main centers of population and economic development. The most well-developed territories of the RF often experience a shortage of water resources, whereas the poorly developed regions are endowed with an immense potential of lake waters. Anthropogenic pressure leads to an even larger unevenness of lake water resource distribution. A comparison of the present-day lake areas as obtained from satellite images for the 2000s with cadastre assessment data for the 1960s has shown some decrease in the lake water resources for the European part of the country. A decrease in the surface area of the lakes and a drying of a number of natural water bodies were revealed for the economically most welldeveloped regions, both in the south of the Russian Plain and in a number of its central regions. On the other hand, the lake water resources of the RF were increased by creating man-made water bodies to contain about 890 km³ of water.     

Information support for studying water resources of Lake Ladoga and its basin

A regional geographic information system for water resources of Lake Ladoga basin was developed as an information support for works aimed to study and practically use the water resources of Lake Ladoga and its basin. The system incorporates databases with the results of hydrochemical, hydrological, and meteorological measurements; information on water use; and an atlas of digital maps. The developed inquiry and communication system is based on web-interfaces, provides for remote access to databases, and enables interactive data exchange.