Nesamovyte Lake

The Chornohora Range attracts not only with its peaks which have an altitude of over 2000 m a.s.l, but also with marvelous lakes located nearby. One of them is Nesamovyte Lake. The lake is of glacier origin and situated at an altitude of 1750 m a.s.l. near Mount Turkul. Nesamovyte was created under the influence of glaciation during the Pleistocene Period. In those times, landscapes situated over 1400 m a.s.l. were permanently covered with snow because of a significant cooling. Being accumulating, it gradually turned into a glacier. This mass moved down, sweeping everything on its way like a grader, and going deep into the ground. A cup-shaped deepening in highlands of mountains, being created as a result of this process, is called a glacier cirque. Such deepening is good for accumulating water and creating lakes. Nesamovyte is 88 m long and 45 m wide. The lake’s depth is about 1.5 m. It entirely freezes in winter and is mainly fed with precipitations. Plenty of legends are related to Nesamovyte and the Chornohora Massif. According to one of them, the hail is formed here. If someone throws a stone into the lake in hot and sunny weather, the rain starts in several minutes.