). The direction of the current is from north to south, the Okhta flows into the Neva 12.5 km from its mouth. The upper part, before the confluence of the left-bank tributary, the Okkervil River, is sometimes called Bolshaya Okhta.

The total catchment area of ​​the last three tributaries in relation to the entire Okhta basin is 35.5%.

Rzhevsky hydroelectric complex

The Rzhevsky hydroelectric complex with the Okhtinsky reservoir formed by the Okhtinskaya dam is located 9 km from the mouth. The reservoir is of a channel type, with a length of 5.1 km. In the upper part, its width is 120 m, at the dam - 200-250 m. The maximum depth is 6.2 m. The useful volume of the reservoir is about 4 million cubic meters. For many years, the Rzhevsky hydroelectric complex as a hydraulic structure has been in a pre-emergency state. Control mechanisms for culverts are badly worn out. Water constantly seeps through the body of the dam, and it may not withstand the pressure in conditions of strong floods. When a dam breaks on the floodplain and in the riverbed, erosion may occur, which can lead to the destruction of industrial and civil facilities located in the coastal zone. Since a long-term accumulation of large masses of bottom sediments enriched with highly toxic chemical substances has formed in the bed of the Okhta reservoir and in the river, there is a serious environmental threat in the event of a breakthrough of the dam of the hydroelectric complex for the downstream sections of the Okhta River and a section of the Neva near its mouth.

Ecology

In 2011, Okhta was named the most polluted water body in the Baltic hydrographic region in the Yearbook of the RF Surface Water Quality of the Hydrochemical Institute of Roshydromet of RF; the water in the river was classified as "dirty" (4th

The Okhta River (translated from Izhora means "bear river" or "river that flows to the west") is the largest tributary of the Neva River. Okhta flows in the city of St. Petersburg and on the territory of the Leningrad region. The length of this river is 99 km, and the basin area is 768 square meters. km. The width of the Okhta river varies from 5 to 10 meters, and the depth is from 0.5 to 5 meters.

The main tributaries of the Okhta are the rivers Pippolovka, Lubya, Lapka, Kharvazi. The villages of Elizavetinka, Vartemyagi, Kolyasovo, as well as several garden partnerships, are conveniently located on the banks of the river. Okhta flows downstream through the city of St. Petersburg. It is on the territory of this city that over 20 bridges have been laid across Okhta.

Okhta river

Okhta originates in the swamps of the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region. In the north-western part it borders on the basin of the Gulf of Finland, and in the north-eastern part on the rivers that flow into Lake Ladoga.

The bottom of the Okhta River is flat, mostly clayey or composed of loams. In the upper part of the river basin, there are numerous forests and peat bogs. Okhta freezes only by the beginning of November, and is bottled at the end of March.

The main problem of these places is heavy water pollution from numerous industrial enterprises. The main pollutants are iron, copper, zinc and manganese. Fish species such as perch, pike and roach are found in Okhta.

Coordinates: 59 ° 56′48 ″ s. NS. 30 ° 24'21 "in. etc. /  59.946750 ° N NS. 30.405861 ° E etc./ 59.946750; 30.405861 ( Okhta (tributary of the Neva), mouth) (G) (I) Location Water system Country

Russia, Russia

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The total catchment area of ​​the last three tributaries in relation to the entire Okhta basin is 35.5%.

Rzhevsky hydroelectric complex

By 2015, it was planned to complete the construction of the Okhta collector, capable of eliminating about 15 thousand cubic meters of untreated wastewater per day. In June 2015, a contractor was selected with a commitment to complete construction of the collector by the end of 2020. In October, a fraudulent criminal case was opened following a construction tender.

Bridges over Okhta ( within the boundaries of St. Petersburg)

  • Okhta Dam (Kommunar Dam)
  • Bridge "Red Shipbuilder" (dismantled, there is a restoration project)

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  • Gorbachevich K.S., Khablo E.P. Why are they named so? About the origin of the names of streets, squares, islands, rivers and bridges in St. Petersburg. - 4th ed., Rev. - SPb. : Norint, 1996 .-- S. 191-192. - 359 p. - ISBN 5-7711-0002-1.

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Pierre smiled, but it was evident from his smile that he understood that it was not the anecdote of Sergei Kuzmich that interested Prince Vasily at that time; and Prince Vasily understood that Pierre understood this. Prince Vasily suddenly muttered something and left. It seemed to Pierre that even Prince Vasily was embarrassed. Pierre was moved by the look of this old socialite's embarrassment; he looked back at Helene - and she seemed to be embarrassed and said with a glance: "Well, you yourself are to blame."
“We must inevitably step over, but I cannot, I cannot,” thought Pierre, and spoke again about the stranger, about Sergei Kuzmich, asking what this anecdote was, since he did not hear it. Helen answered with a smile that she did not know either.
When Prince Vasily entered the drawing-room, the princess spoke quietly with the elderly lady about Pierre.
- Of course, c "est un parti tres brillant, mais le bonheur, ma chere ... - Les Marieiages se font dans les cieux, [Of course, this is a very brilliant party, but happiness, my dear ... - Marriages are made in heaven,] - answered old lady.
Prince Vasily, as if not listening to the ladies, walked into the far corner and sat down on the sofa. He closed his eyes and seemed to be dozing. His head fell, and he woke up.
- Aline, - he said to his wife, - allez voir ce qu "ils font. [Alina, look what they do.]
The princess went to the door, walked past it with a significant, indifferent air, and looked into the drawing-room. Pierre and Helene also sat and talked.
- All the same, - she answered her husband.
Prince Vasily frowned, wrinkled his mouth to one side, his cheeks jumped with his characteristic unpleasant, rude expression; Shaking himself, he got up, threw back his head and with decisive steps, past the ladies, went into the small drawing-room. With rapid steps, he happily approached Pierre. The prince's face was so unusually solemn that Pierre got up in fright when he saw him.
- Thank God! - he said. - My wife told me everything! He hugged Pierre with one arm, his daughter with the other. - My friend Lelya! I am very, very happy. His voice trembled. - I loved your father ... and she will be a good wife for you ... God bless you! ...
He hugged his daughter, then Pierre again and kissed him with a foul-smelling mouth. Tears really wet his cheeks.
“Princess, come here,” he shouted.
The princess went out and wept too. The elderly lady also wiped herself with a handkerchief. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the hand of the beautiful Helene several times. After a while they were left alone again.
“All this should have been and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, “so there is no need to ask whether this is good or bad? Good, because definitely, and there is no previous tormenting doubt. " Pierre silently held the hand of his bride and looked at her beautiful breasts rising and falling.
- Helen! He said aloud and stopped.
“Something so special is said in these cases,” he thought, but he could not remember what exactly it was said in these cases. He looked into her face. She moved closer to him. Her face flushed.
"Ah, take off these ... like these ..." She pointed to the glasses.
Pierre took off his spectacles, and his eyes, in addition to the general strangeness of the eyes of people who had taken off their spectacles, looked fearfully inquiringly. He wanted to bend over her hand and kiss her; but with a quick and rough movement of her head she seized his lips and brought them to hers. Her face struck Pierre with its changed, unpleasantly bewildered expression.
“It's too late now, it's over; and I love her, ”thought Pierre.
- Je vous aime! [I love you!] - he said, remembering what had to be said in these cases; but these words sounded so poor that he felt ashamed of himself.
A month and a half later, he was married and settled, as they said, the happy owner of a beautiful wife and millions, in the large newly decorated house of the Bezukhikhs in St. Petersburg.

The old prince Nikolai Andreich Bolkonsky in December 1805 received a letter from Prince Vasily, informing him of his arrival with his son. (“I am going to the audit, and, of course, I’m not a detour 100 miles to visit you, dear benefactor,” he wrote, “and my Anatol is accompanying me and goes to the army; and I hope that you will allow him to personally express to you that deep respect that he, imitating his father, has for you. ")
“You don’t need to take Marie out: the suitors themselves are coming to us,” the little princess said inadvertently, having heard about this.
Prince Nikolai Andreevich winced and said nothing.
Two weeks after receiving the letter, in the evening, the people of Prince Vasily arrived ahead, and the next day he arrived with his son.
The old man Bolkonsky always had a low opinion of the character of Prince Vasily, and even more so recently, when Prince Vasily went far in ranks and honors in his new reigns under Paul and Alexander. Now, at the hints of the letter and the little princess, he understood what the matter was, and a low opinion of Prince Vasily passed in the soul of Prince Nikolai Andreich into a feeling of malevolent contempt. He snorted constantly about him. On the day Prince Vasily arrived, Prince Nikolai Andreevich was especially displeased and out of sorts. Was it because he was out of sorts that Prince Vasily was coming, or because he was especially displeased with the arrival of Prince Vasily, because he was out of sorts; but he was in a bad mood, and Tikhon had advised the architect to come in with a report to the prince even in the morning.
“Hear how he walks,” said Tikhon, drawing the architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. - Steps on the whole heel - we know ...
However, as usual, at 9 o'clock the prince went out for a walk in his velvet coat with a sable collar and the same hat. Snow fell the day before. The path along which Prince Nikolai Andreevich walked to the greenhouse was cleared, traces of a broomstick were visible in the swept snow, and the shovel was stuck into a loose mound of snow that ran on both sides of the path. The prince walked through the greenhouses, through the courtyard and buildings, frowning and silent.
- Is it possible to ride in a sleigh? - He asked the respectable who accompanied him to the house, similar in face and manner to the owner, manager.
“Snow is deep, your Excellency. I already ordered to disperse on the preshpekt.
The prince bowed his head and went to the porch. "Glory to you, Lord, - thought the manager, - a cloud swept by!"
“It was difficult to pass, Your Excellency,” added the manager. - How was it heard, Your Excellency, that the Minister will come to your Excellency?
The prince turned to the steward and stared at him with frowning eyes.
- What? Minister? Which minister? Who ordered? - he began to speak in his piercing, harsh voice. - For the princess, my daughter, they did not clear it, but for the minister! I have no ministers!
“Your Excellency, I thought ...
- You thought! - shouted the prince, pronouncing the words more and more hastily and incoherently. “You thought ... Robbers! scoundrels! I will teach you to believe, - and, raising a stick, he swung it at Alpatych and would have hit, if the manager had not involuntarily deviated from the blow. - I thought! Scoundrels! He shouted hastily. But, in spite of the fact that Alpatych, himself frightened by his insolence - to deviate from the blow, approached the prince, bowing his bald head in front of him obediently, or, perhaps, precisely from this the prince, continuing to shout: “scoundrels! fill the road! " did not pick up another stick and ran into the rooms.
Before dinner, the princess and m lle Bourienne, who knew that the prince was out of sorts, stood waiting for him: m lle Bourienne with a radiant face that said: “I don’t know anything, I am the same as always,” and Princess Marya - pale, frightened, with downcast eyes. The hardest thing for Princess Marya was that she knew that in these cases she had to act like m lle Bourime, but she could not do it. It seemed to her: “I will make it as if I do not notice, he will think that I have no sympathy for him; I will make me so boring and out of sorts, he will say (as it happened) that I have hung my nose, "and so on.
The prince looked at his daughter's frightened face and snorted.
- Dr ... or a fool! ... - he said.
“And that one is not! they've been gossiping about her too, ”he thought of the little princess, who was not in the dining room.
- And where is the princess? - he asked. - Hiding? ...
“She’s not quite well,” said m llе Bourienne, smiling cheerfully. “She will not come out. This is so understandable in her position.
- Hm! um! kh! kh! - said the prince and sat down at the table.
The plate didn’t seem clean to him; he pointed to the spot and dropped it. Tikhon picked it up and handed it to the barman. The little princess was not unwell; but she was so overwhelmingly afraid of the prince that, hearing that he was out of sorts, she decided not to go out.
“I’m afraid for the child,” she said to m lle Bourienne. “God knows what can be done from fright.
In general, the little princess lived in Bald Hills constantly under a feeling of fear and antipathy towards the old prince, which she was not aware of, because fear so prevailed that she could not feel it. There was also antipathy on the part of the prince, but it was drowned out by contempt. The princess, having settled down in the Bald Hills, especially fell in love with m lle Bourienne, spent days with her, asked her to spend the night with her, and often talked with her about her father-in-law and judged him.
- Il nous arrive du monde, mon prince, [Guests are coming to us, prince.] - said m lle Bourienne, unrolling a white napkin with her rosy hands. - Son excellence le rince Kouraguine avec son fils, a ce que j "ai entendu dire? [His Excellency Prince Kuraguine with his son, as far as I have heard?]" She said inquiringly.
“Hm… this excellence boy… I assigned him to the college,” the prince said insulted. - And why my son, I cannot understand. Princess Lizaveta Karlovna and Princess Marya may know; I do not know why he is bringing this son here. I don’t need it. - And he looked at the reddened daughter.
- Unhealthy, or what? From the fear of the minister, as this fool Alpatych said today.
- No, mon pere. [father.]
No matter how unfortunate M lle Bourienne got on the subject of conversation, she did not stop and chatted about the greenhouses, about the beauty of the new blossoming flower, and the prince softened after the soup.
After dinner he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess was sitting at a small table and chatting with Masha, the maid. She turned pale when she saw her father-in-law.
The little princess has changed greatly. She was rather bad than good, now. The cheeks dropped, the lip went up, the eyes were drawn down.
- Yes, some kind of heaviness, - she answered the prince's question, what she felt.
- Do you need what?
- No, merci, mon pere. [thank you, father.]
- Well, good, good.
He went out and walked to the waiter's. Alpatych, bending his head, stood in the waiter's room.
- Is the road covered?
- Thrown over, your Excellency; forgive me, for God's sake, for one stupidity.
The prince interrupted him and laughed his unnatural laugh.
- Well, good, good.
He held out his hand, which Alpatych kissed, and went into the office.
In the evening, Prince Vasily arrived. He was met at the roadside (as the avenue was called) by the coachmen and waiters, with a shout they drove his carriages and sleighs to the outbuilding along a road covered with snow on purpose.
Prince Vasil and Anatol were assigned separate rooms.
Anatole was sitting, taking off his jacket and resting his hands on his hips, in front of the table, to the corner of which he, smiling, fixedly and absentmindedly fixed his beautiful large eyes. Throughout his life, he looked at it as a continuous amusement, which for some reason someone undertook to arrange for him. In the same way, he now looked at his trip to the evil old man and to the rich ugly heiress. All this could come out, according to his assumption, very good and funny. And why not marry, if she is very rich? It never gets in the way, Anatole thought.

Okhta river

This is the largest river in St. Petersburg that is not part of the Neva delta. It begins outside the city limits and flows into the Neva at the Bolsheokhtinsky bridge. The name has existed since at least the 13th century; the name is Izhora and is explained by researchers as "a river flowing to the west", or as a "bear river". Sometimes the river is called Bolshaya Okhta, as opposed to Malaya Okhta, as the Okkervil river was once called. It is more correct to consider as Bolshaya Okhta only the area below the mouth of the Okkervil River.

There are 14 bridges across Okhta within the city limits, not counting the dam of the former Powder Factory; The names have 11. The first five of those that existed at that time were numbered upstream in the 1950s, later, between the 1st and 2nd Okhtinsky bridges, the Okhtinsky bridge No. 1a appeared. All of these six bridges were renamed on November 6, 1997.

Chelyabinsk bridge(former 5th Okhtinsky) - along Chelyabinskaya street.

Capsule bridge(former 4th Okhtinsky) - along the Kapsyulny highway.

Bolshoi Ilyinsky bridge(former 3rd Okhtinsky) - along the Revolution Highway near the Ilyinskaya Sloboda. This bridge was Ilyinsky since 1912, but later its name was lost. Big - because in the same 1997 the neighboring bridge across Luppa became Maly Ilyinsky.

Armashevsky bridge(former 2nd Okhtinsky) - along Potapov Street. Near the intersection of this street with Irinovsky Prospect, the Armashevskaya Sloboda highway began, which ran along the southern border of plot No. 2 along Potapova Street; addresses on it existed at the beginning of the XXI century. The highway led to the Armasheskaya Sloboda, located at the intersection of modern Irinovsky and Industrialny Avenues, the name of the settlement was taken from the name of the landlord A. A. Armasheva.

Bypass bridge(former Okhtinsky Bridge No. 1a) - along the Obieznoe Highway.

Irinovsky bridge(former 1st Okhtinsky) - along Irinovsky prospect.

Industrial bridge- along Industrial Avenue - located between Armashevsky and Bypass bridges. It was built in 1977, so it was not included in the numbering. The name was assigned on May 28, 1979.

Bridge of Power Engineers, also got its name on May 28, 1979 from the avenue of the same name, nevertheless, for a long time it was written on the bridge: "Bridge No. 6 across the Okkervil River" (!)

Shahumyan bridge- along Shahumyan Avenue - built in 1968, the name appeared after in 1978 this site became part of Shahumyan Avenue.

Komarovsky bridge- new, it was built in 1960 on the future Krasnogvardeyskaya Square. Its name comes from Komarovsky Prospekt, which connected the Neva and Okhta and is now part of Krasnogvardeyskaya Square, and reminds of Evgraf Fedotovich Komarovsky, Adjutant General of Alexander I. His dacha and cloth factory were located nearby. The dacha was located in the northern part of Malaya Okhta, on the banks of the Neva. Since the people of the privileged classes, especially the nobles, could be counted on one hand on Okhta, the Komarovskys were very respected and revered by the surrounding residents. General Komarovsky was a purely military man and did not have the skills of a businessman. After the bankruptcy of the latter, Komarovsky bought the cloth factory of the banker Baron Rahl at the insistence of the Minister of Finance, Count Guriev. Alexander I personally took care of the material part of the factory; the best craftsmen were discharged from England. In 1829, the cloths of the Komarovsky factory were recognized as the best at an exhibition in St. Petersburg. Komarovsky received a gold medal of great dignity for them. But in the 1830s, factory affairs went worse, the general's institution went bankrupt, and General Komarovsky even had to sell his house near the Semyonovsky Bridge to pay off debts.

The last bridge over Okhta - Malokhtinsky, it connects the Sverdlovsk and Malokhtinskaya embankments and was built in 1984. The name was given not along Malokhtinskaya embankment, which did not exist yet, but along Malaya Okhta, to which a bridge leads. It is partly connected with the name of the neighboring Bolsheokhtinsky bridge across the Neva.

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RIVER OKHTA

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AGAINST ALL LAWS ... ... is being built in St. Petersburg "Okhta Center"

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We have not carried out rafting on Okhta since 2016! And in 2020 they decided to return to this river again. Because it is a beautiful and interesting river.

The program will be revised. Description updated.

Okhta river is the right tributary of the Kem River, which flows into the White Sea. Rafting on Okhta is rightfully considered a classic - for many decades the river has been chosen by both beginners and experienced tourists.

We will truly take a break from civilization - the river bed runs through remote and uninhabited places. Very characteristic and untouched Karelian nature. There are rocks, beaches, and forests.

An important point is fishing. Here she is wonderful - it's hard to stay without fish :)

The shores of Okhta are shrouded in secrets. There are mysterious idol stones called seids. And it was along the bank of the Okhta that the path went towards Lake Karma, which, according to legend, is a repository of information about the ancient civilization Hyperborea.

Rafting passes for 6 and 4 persons sports catamarans. Each 6-seater catamaran has an instructor who drives the catamaran. At least 2 instructors accompany the group. We teach the team all the necessary skills during the rafting, so you can participate in the hike, even if you have no experience. The main thing is your activity and desire to learn new things.

The 4-seater catamaran is for more experienced riders. Plyosy (this is a section of a river without a current) and large lakes we will pass under a motor. We will also have a 2-seater sport catamaran for sailing in the rapids.

Weather in Karelia not much different from the weather in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In July and August, on average, there is dry hot weather with a temperature of 20-30 degrees, it also rains.

Mosquitoes and midges are present, but there are usually few of them, their number depends on the weather and season. There are no ticks or poisonous snakes on the route.
On the route it catches a cell phone in places, Megafon catches it starting from Lake Voronye. Other operators catch worse.

Daily program

Day 1

We arrive at the station Nadvoytsy in the evening, we meet with the instructor and all together we go by minibus to the river. Travel time is 4-5 hours, depending on the condition of the road.
We will be in place at night. We quickly set up camp and go to bed with a little snack.

In the morning we start preparing for the rafting. We collect catamarans, pack things in hermetic bags (all personal belongings will remain dry), have breakfast, distribute to the catamarans, undergo instructions and, finally, our rafting begins!

We start on the shore of the lake Muyezero, this is the purest lake with a sandy bottom. The water in it is absolutely transparent, and a forest grows along the banks. An ancient wooden church has been preserved on one of the islands of Mueozero - Trinity Island. We will definitely visit this fabulous place.

Today is our training day. We walk along the lake, instructors teach the basics of water tourism. We learn to row smoothly, which does not interfere with periodically swimming and enjoying nature.

Today we will cross the lake and stand at the exit from it, on a sandy beach. We will set up a camp among the pine trees, prepare lunch and dinner, get to know each other more closely, sunbathe, swim, fish, play. Everyone will find something to their liking.

Day 2

We leave Muezer, passing the remains of the dam at the exit. Here Okhta is a small winding and picturesque rivulet with the purest clear water, green algae at the bottom and reeds along the banks. The water is so clear that if you look down, sometimes you get the feeling that we are flying over the mysterious underwater world.

In less than an hour we meet the influx Churuzh, after which Okhta becomes twice as wide. The banks gradually become swampy and become lower and lower. Passing the only possible parking in this place, we enter the zone of a large swamp.

It was formed as a result of the flooding of the banks - after the construction of a dam, due to which the water level in Yuliaozero rose. The dams on Okhta were built to prepare the river for timber rafting. Timber rafting in Karelia was stopped more than 40 years ago, but you can still find huge heaps of old rotten logs.

Before Yuliaozero, where we will have lunch, about two hours of walking. We pass to the channel in Yuzmozero, and from it to Lake Rigoreka, there we set up a camp on its rocky shores, or on islands, among the pine trees.

Day 3

We leave in the morning, we pass a long and narrow lake Rigoreka... Its right bank is rocky, the left one is low, grassy, ​​swampy. On the left bank there are huge thickets of cloudberries.

The lake gradually turns into the next lake - Alozero, at the beginning of which we see the remains of the uninhabited village of Rigoreka on the right bank. At the exit from the lake, a remnant of a dam with a large difference in heights and a good drain has been preserved, after which the water quickly runs among the stones. This is the first noticeable threshold on the route. We pass on the move.

After a short break (a section of a river without a current, where you need to paddle) we pass threshold Nemes... This threshold was formed as a result of the construction of timber-floating structures, like the previous one.

After a string of shivers (sections of rapid flow with water shafts), rifts and small streams, the river expands and slowly winds among swampy fields and reeds. Just at the exit to the lake Legevo the banks are getting higher and decent parking areas appear, where we will settle down for lunch.

Lake Lezhevo is quite large, it is not a short way to the channel. You need to go north past the cape, where the uninhabited village of Lezhevo is located. The lake is beautiful, there are a lot of fish in it. We will stop at one of the parking lots with a sandy beach on the shore of the lake.

Day 4

The channel starts from the remnants of a timber floating dam, the current is very fast, but without shafts. Along the channel it carries very quickly, the banks are picturesque, the forest along the banks bends over the water, slightly covering it. We quickly go out into the lake Torosozero, which is very shallow and overgrown with algae. In its northern part, a channel begins in Pebozero.

There are two perceptible thresholds in this channel, the flow is fast on average, the channel is rather narrow. The first threshold is artificial. Okhta in this place is narrowed to 3-4 meters and sandwiched between two ryazh walls.

In Karelia, at the time of timber rafting, rivers were deepened, narrowing the channel. To do this, they built ryazh walls from logs and stones. Their remains are still found on our route. They also built wooden trays, these are such gutters made of logs and stones, along which logs were floated during timber rafting. Now we are rafting on them on catamarans.

We merge along this tray, like a slide in a water park. The length of the chute is 50 meters, at the end there is a substantial shaft.

The next threshold Pebozersky 2 building(categories of difficulty, there are from 1 to 6). The threshold is a few dilapidated ryazh walls and the remains of a tray at the entrance to Pobeozero.

We pass by a large island and go out into the lake Hiziyarvi... Passing it, we pass into the Voronye lake. At the exit to Voronya there are many campsites on both banks, there are many islands in the lake. A forester lives on one of the banks and maintains a first-aid stall :) This is the only shop on the route with a very meager assortment.

We will camp somewhere on the shores of this beautiful lake.

Day 5

Afternoon. We rest on Raven Lake, we are doing a camping bath, and in the afternoon we are waiting for Island of Good Spirits- a kind of open-air museum of tourist art. Here we will take many interesting photos and have fun.

On the island of Good Spirits, there are hundreds of wooden sculptures and various gags. There are even crafts from the 70s.

Fishing is excellent here, you just have to go to the rarely visited backwaters and a dozen kilograms of pike are provided for you!

Day 6

The most interesting and dynamic section of the river begins with all the main rapids. In the morning we leave Voroniy Lake, at the exit there is another artificial threshold. The water drop is decent, but the shafts are not strong, after small rolls with stones and the Oleniy rapids (1-2 c.s.)

After Oleniy, along a picturesque channel, we get to Kornisozero, a small elongated lake, overgrown with reeds on one side. At the exit there is a small threshold and rifts.

Soon the river is divided into several branches, the turns to the right are fenced off by the remnants of ryazh walls, all the water goes to the left and rushes along the long (about 1 km) rapids of Picheporog (2 grade). After a short stretch we pass the Kozhany rapids (2 grade), and after a few kilometers, the Oinginge rapids (2 grade). Near him we get up for the night in a large clearing in the forest.

Day 7

We pass the Lone threshold (2c), a rather long threshold in which you already need to be able to control a catamaran (but by this moment we can do everything - the instructors have already taught everyone!).

After about 30 minutes we stop near the Hemeg threshold (3 class). It is a rocky drain with a barrel, a small rift and a ridge of stones at the exit. Immediately after Hemeg, after a small spill, the most difficult and beautiful rapids on the route begin - Kiviristi (4-5 class).

The decision to pass Kiviristi by the whole team is made by the instructor, depending on the water level and the training of the team. A detour along the shore is possible. But you can usually ride on a two and four-seater catamaran. We will stay here for half a day. There are beautiful rocks around, we walk, take pictures. We shoot the passage of the threshold.

We make lunch and continue rafting in the late afternoon. We pass the White and Dark rapids, the Pechko rapids (3 class), the Petrushka rapids, Ant riders and the Muraveiny rapids th. All these rapids follow one another, alternating with small stretches.

The next serious threshold is Tyuterin (3 class), the possibility of passing which is also determined by the instructors, depending on the water level and the state of the group. The threshold is quite dangerous due to the abundance of sharp stones in the stream. But you can go for a ride on a kopeck piece.

Near the Tyuterin threshold, we get up in a high, blown parking lot for the night.

Day 8

We start in the morning, not far from Okhtaporog, but today we still want to make a bathhouse. On the way, we meet only the Kurna Rapid, an uncomplicated rapids among the rocks. We pass it and come to the last serious threshold Okhtaporog (3 class), we get up camp nearby.

Okhta rapids are long and interesting rapids with large ramparts and barrels. We will ride here for a long time. There is a convenient trail along the bank for passing around.

In the evening we do a bathhouse. We continue to relax, swim, fish.

Day 9

In the morning we are in no hurry, we have a rest. But those who wish, of course, can start riding a double catamaran in the morning.
Late in the evening we assemble the camp and go out on the water. We need to go (by catamarans of course) about 5 km to Podduzhemskaya HPP from where the minibus will pick us up (to the minibus from the water walk no more than 50 meters).

We collect things, prepare a snack.

Day 10

To the station 20 minutes on a good road. Leaving the station Kem on trains around 5-6 in the morning.

So our adventure on Okhta has come to an end! Saying goodbye, exchanging contacts. But we will definitely meet again!

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