Lake Shartash

Lake Shartash was formed about 1 million years ago. In the basin of the lake there is a large amount of sapropel deposits, which is largely contaminated with heavy metals that got here with the waters pumped out of the granite quarry. Traces of human presence from the late Neolithic era have been preserved on the shores. The runoff of the lake into the Iset River – the Shartash runoff – occurred through the southern bay, west of the village of Peski. Already at the end of the XIX century, the flow was not constant and brought its waters to Iset. Emergency runoff from the lake is still in effect. Directly from the lake, water flows through a concrete pipe, then through a dug ditch and spills near the road to the CHP. With a small amount of precipitation, the stream dries up, with a large amount of water flows up to the Maloshartashsky Peat bog in the direction of Small Shartash.nIn the area of ​​the lake in 1745, a peasant from the schismatics Erofei Markov, a resident of the village of Shartash, discovered the first ore gold in Russia (the Beryozovsky deposit). The area near Shartash became the center of the Ural Old Believers.