Secrets of Siberia - the mysterious Okunevo. Danilovo lake (Omsk region): recreation, legends Research work of students of Lake Linevo and Danilovo

In the Muromtsevsky district of the Omsk region there is a place that is known throughout Russia. This is not a temple or a monument, but a small village with a modest name Okunevo. The settlement itself is quite young - the year of foundation of the village is considered to be 1770, when the first settlers appeared here. Many researchers believe that people came to these places long before that.

Legend of the Five Lakes.

In fact, many legends are associated with this small village, the most famous of which is, of course, the legend of the Five Lakes. Not far from the settlement there are four (!) Lakes known far beyond the Siberian region: Danilovo, Lenevo, Shchuchye and Urmannoe (Shaitan Lake). According to local beliefs, there is also a fifth one - the Hidden Lake, which does not allow everyone to approach it.

It is believed that the water and mud in the Danilovo, Lenevo and Shchuchye lakes have healing powers, which attracts vacationers from all over Siberia. Locals say about these lakes that they have "living" water. Urmannoye lake, according to old-timers, is filled with "dead" water. It is also called Shaitan Lake, which in literal translation from Turkic means Devil's Lake.

Studies of the properties of the water of the Five Lakes near Okunevo confirmed the healing properties of only Lake Danilovo. Here, the water is actually able to treat some diseases of the intestinal tract and most skin diseases. This also applies to the mud of Danilov Lake. The healthfulness of the water in the lakes Lenevo and Shchuchye from the point of view of science is very controversial.

The version of the origin of the Okunev lakes is also interesting. According to ancient Indian treatises, these lakes are "born of the cosmos." Of course, we do not say that Indians have been in these places, but do not forget about the legends. According to ancient Indian myths, it was in these places that the great battle between Rama and the Evil Forces took place. In this battle, the invaluable help to the deity was provided by a man - a hero named Hanuman, for which he was gifted with the lands of Siberia. According to legend, he founded the Great City with the Temple, in which the crystal of Wisdom sent down by the Cosmos was kept. According to one version, this temple should be located somewhere near Okunev.

In principle, scientists say that the Okunev lakes could well have appeared from a meteorite that fell like a fragment. This hypothesis is confirmed in the form of lakes (all lakes are elongated in one direction), their depth. Among other things, magnetic anomalies, seismic vibrations and other "oddities" are observed here. At the bottom of Danilov Lake, scuba divers discovered a hole over which a cornice with old mossy trees hangs, which confirms the fact that once the bottom of the lake was the surface of the earth.

However, we forgot about the fifth - the most mysterious lake. This lake is called Hidden and, according to legend, is located on the right bank of the Tara, about 250 meters from the coast. It is shown only to the elite, so seeing it is a great success. They say that it has the shape of a regular circle and is very small.

Okunevo and Danilovo Lake as a place of rest.

Maybe thanks to numerous legends, or maybe thanks to the healing power of the water of Danilov Lake, but one way or another, the small village of Okunevo in the Omsk Region has become a place of real pilgrimage for tourists from Omsk and nearby regions. Okunevo and its five lakes are located just on the border of the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions, and Lake Danilovo lies in Novosibirsk Region, a Lenevo - in Omsk.

From Okunevo to Omsk 250 km, and to Novosibirsk and even more - 800 km. However, despite the rather decent distance, the inhabitants of these Siberian cities with great pleasure go to rest both on the lakes and in the village of Okunevo itself. Both in the village and on the shores of lakes Danilovo and Lenevo there are campsites and guest houses where tourists can spend the night or dine with complete comfort. Locals with great pleasure will tell travelers about the legends and guide them to the alleged location of the Hidden Lake or the Great Temple.

Lake Danilovo is one of the most famous small lakes Novosibirsk region. According to legend, it was formed as a result of a meteorite fall. Due to its origin, the lake has an amazing property: its purest water contains an abnormally large amount of silver. The legend led to the appearance of a second name near the reservoir - Silver. The lake is part of a group of mythical "Five Lakes", each of which contributes to good health and longevity.

The shape of the lake is an oval, while the length is 0.78 km and the width is 0.45 km. Area - 29 hectares. The depth of the reservoir increases towards the center according to the data of scuba divers. In 1975, the expedition of D.N. Fialkova in the center of the lake set a depth of 18 m.

On all sides the coast is surrounded by centuries-old pines, there are lonely bushes of bird cherry, mountain ash, viburnum and honeysuckle, aspen, in the Malokrasnoyarsk direction adjoins a birch forest. Thickets of marsh cinquefoil, reeds, reeds and cattails rise from the water along the shore.

The water is very transparent, at a depth of up to 3-5 m the bottom is visible, in shallow water schools of fish fry are visible. By mid-June, it warms up well, and favorable conditions are created not only for swimming, but also for scuba diving.

On the shore of the lake there is a deposit of green-bluish clay, which is used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Water also has medicinal properties due to the high silver content. Infusions and decoctions prepared from Danilovskaya water are highly effective, and the water rejuvenates the body well. It helps not only in the treatment of skin diseases, but also in toothache. This water even cures cancer.

There is a recreation area next to the lake. Throughout the southern sandy coast there are tents and parking lots for vacationers. Tourists come from Omsk, Novosibirsk regions, as well as other regions of Siberia. You can also meet foreigners. After walking around the surroundings of Lake Danilovo, guests can take a steam bath in a real Russian bathhouse with birch brooms. The rental office provides tents for a different number of places. Fishing available. They catch pike, perch, rudd, tench.

Location: Novosibirsk region, Kyshtovsky district, land use area of the village of Malokrasnoyarka, at a distance of 12 km from the village of Malokrasnoyarki, Kyshtovsky district and at a distance of about 1 km from the village of Kurganki, Muromtsevsky district, Omsk region

How to get there: the distance from the village of Kyshtovka (regional center of the Kyshtovsky district) to Lake Danilovo is 64 km by car, from Novosibirsk to the lake - 660 km by car (to the village of Malokrasnoyarki, Kyshtovsky district and 10 km by forest road to the lake).
There is a bus service from the Novosibirsk bus station (Red Avenue, 4) to the village of Kyshtovka. There is also a bus from the village of Kyshtovka to the village of Malokrasnoyarka. From Malokrasnoyarka to Lake Danilovo you can take a taxi, in addition, there is also a taxi from the village of Kyshtovka to the lake.

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Danilovo Lake is located on the territory of the Kyshtovsky District of the Novosibirsk Region, on the very border with the Muromtsevsky District of the Omsk Region, but is more popular with residents of the Omsk Region than the Novosibirsk Region.

Danilovo Lake is included in the group of so-called "Five Lakes", which also includes, according to various sources, Lenevo Lake, Shaitan Lake, Shchuchye or Urmannoye Lake and the most mysterious semi-mythical Hidden Lake.

The diameter of the lake is about a kilometer. It is the largest of the Five Lakes. The depth of the lake is 17 meters, which is 10 meters more than that of the nearby Tara River, the transparency of the water is 5 meters. The depth of the lake is much greater than other lakes in the region. The shores are gently sloping, near the water they are overgrown with cattail and reeds, and above - with pine, birch and aspen. Around Danilov Lake there are two shafts, one and a half meters high and with a distance between the crests of ten meters.

There are legends among the people that the lake was formed at the site of a meteorite fall, hence its amazing property - pure water with a high content of silver. There is another version, more like a fairy tale, that an unidentified flying object fell here, and an alloy of an unknown space metal enriched the water with life-giving components for terrestrial organisms.

The lake was discovered around the 1950s, and since then its fame has steadily gained momentum. The reputation of a healing lake is firmly entrenched behind the lake, and even overgrown with various legends.

The place is truly amazing. The lake does not look like any other reservoir in the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions, and rather it resembles a mountain one: it is practically not overgrown with aquatic vegetation, very deep, with clean, clear water.

It is believed that this water successfully treats diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and various skin diseases. The water of Danilov Lake really has a healing effect, but not at all the one that the people attributed to it. The lake was visited by a research expedition of Omsk geologists who comprehensively studied Danilovo Lake. The taken water samples were examined in the laboratory of the Technical University. The set and amount of metals in the water turned out to be quite earthly and ordinary, even the silver content does not exceed the usual norms. In the water of the lake, it is contained in negligible quantities. But on the other hand, a huge amount of free oxygen was discovered: the water in the lake is constantly changing due to the many underground sources rich in oxygen. According to scientists, this explains the healing properties of the waters of the lake. Free oxygen improves metabolic processes in the body and activates its defense mechanisms.

Another result of the study is the clue to the origin of the lake. It is a pity, but it seems that we will have to part with the beautiful legend of a meteorite or a UFO: the theory of extraterrestrial origin has not received scientific confirmation. Scientists analyzed a two-meter section of the soil of the ramparts on the shore of the lake and compared its composition with the composition of the soil on the shore of Tara. They turned out to be identical. This led scientists to the version that the lake most likely owes its origin to the work of underground water. It washes out soft sedimentary rocks, forming voids and dips. On the site of one of these failures, Danilovo Lake was formed.

In the summer, many vacationers come to Danilovo, and the results of human activity are already beginning to affect the purity of the lake. Local fishermen also caused no small damage to the lake, digging a trench during the spring flood from the river to the lake. They hoped that fish would enter Danilovo, but instead they only let dirty river water into the lake. And although the lake is still coping with the negative impact, scientists believe that it should be treated more carefully. In theory, the lake should be given the status of a natural monument with limited use. It's worth it: in addition to the unique natural properties of water, plants listed in the Red Book grow on Danilovo - the most beautiful egg-pods and water lilies.

Russia is famous for its water resources, and is no exception: the famous "five lakes" of the Omsk region are located on its territory.

This is a mystical, according to many, a place surrounded by many rumors and conjectures.

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Description, geographical location, map

The Omsk region occupies less than 1% of the entire territory of Russia, its area exceeds 140 thousand km2. One of its attractions is the Five Lakes system.

It is located in the Muromtsevsky district on the border between the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions and includes five lakes.

The unifying factor is their common origin and all sorts of legends that are associated with them. Some believe that the lakes are also connected by an underground river.

This caused an assumption about the "heavenly" origin of the reservoirs: some researchers suggest that the largest meteorite then fell to the ground, the fragments of which "dug" several holes. They, in turn, filled with water during the Ice Age.

Danilovo lake

It is also called Silver. Perhaps the most famous of the Five Lakes group. Location - Kyshtovsky district, Novosibirsk region. In diameter, the reservoir reaches one km, the depth is 16 m, and the transparency reaches 5 m.

The latter greatly distinguishes Danilovo from its neighbors: the water is so clean that it can be compared with the mountain. A transparent reservoir with almost no vegetation.

Danilovo lake

The shores of the reservoir are gentle, overgrown with reeds and cattails. Birch, pine, and aspen stretched out there.

It is important to know: Danilovo lake is beautiful place recreation for a large number of tourists from all over Siberia. Hotels for tourists are located 2 km from it, the village of Kurganka is located on the very shore.

On the shore you can rent a catamaran and scuba gear, but the entrance to the lake is paid - you won’t be able to drive to the shore for free. Near the shores of the reservoir there are deposits of green-blue clay, which has healing and cosmetic functions.

Linevo lake

The lake is located to the west of Danilov, near it flows the river Tara. Its dimensions are much more modest: it is almost 2 times smaller, but this does not prevent the lake from attracting tourists with the beauty of its landscapes.

The depth reaches 11 meters, the transparency is 2.5 meters. Water lilies grow on the surface of the water, a pine forest spreads on the shore with mushrooms, berries and many wild inhabitants: ducks, hedgehogs, squirrels. In the lake itself there is a large number of fish: pike, perch, roach, carp.

Among vacationers, Linevo Lake is the most popular: there are several tourist centers, there are places for sports recreation and fishing. For example, a wonderful recreation center "Kurshavelka", where you can rent a house, a tent or just a parking lot and enjoy the beauties of nature.

Although this is not a sanatorium, but thanks to the salubrious climate and the purest water, we can safely say that the effect of staying in this area will be comparable to treatment in an institution.

Note: Since 2014, the reservoir has been a nature reserve and is protected by the state.

Not to be confused: in Kurgan region there is a lake with the same name - Linevo, which is famous for its fishing spots and beautiful landscapes.

pike lake

Petropavlovka and the villages of Nadezhdinka. Its size is even more modest - 2 times smaller than that of Lake Lineva, the depth reaches only 6 meters.

pike lake

Unlike large "brothers", the reservoir is very quiet, almost deserted, best suited for fishing: pike, crucian carp, bream, and roach are found here.

For lovers of the latter, fishing and tourist bases have been built on the shore.

Satan Lake

The second name is Urmannoye, in translation, this name means "Damn". The reservoir is located near the villages of Inciss and Okunevo and is in great demand among tourists, despite some difficulties in reaching it.

It is surrounded by swamps, which makes it almost inaccessible. The only passage to the water is along a wooden deck. There are few fish in the reservoir, but there are quite a lot of mushrooms and berries in the neighboring forests. You can also swim in it, but due to problems with the passage, few people dare to do so.

Take note: however, the lake is known not only for the beauties of nature: its water is considered healing, and there are many rumors and legends among the people.

The five lake system is considered anomalous zone, strange things happen here, magnetic and seismic vibrations and other oddities. Most tourists come for riddles, and locals, seeking to expand the flow of visitors, are happy to share stories about ghosts, buried treasures and flying saucers.

hidden lake

The second named Crooked. The place is mysterious, little known. This lake is a quarter of a kilometer from the Tara River, on the left side is the village of Okunevo.

The lake is not distinguished by external beauty: it is small and located in a heavily overgrown region. However, in its waters there are twice as many fish as in the above-mentioned "neighbors".

hidden lake

Also, the Nameless Lake is sometimes included in the system - it is located near the village of Porechie. The water in this lake is saturated with oxygen, as in Danilovo.

Interesting fact: the legend also says that the reservoir has no bottom. Some scientists believe that it may be an exit from an underground tunnel, but research on this topic has not been conducted.

In the Omsk region there is Lake Skokovo in the Kolosovsky district, as well as others: Bakangul, Pyostroye, Swan, where many noble birds of the same name once lived. Or the inhabited lake, rich in crucian carp, in the village of Novosoldatka.

Legends and mysteries

There are many legends about the "five lakes" that attract tourists:

1. The most famous legend is about the origin of reservoirs from a meteorite that broke into five pieces when it fell. Unfortunately, scientists cannot yet completely refute or prove this legend.
2. The next legend is connected with the first: the water in Danilovo is unusually clear, with large quantity silver. Hence the second name of the reservoir - Silver. The legend claims that silver was brought to the place of the reservoir by a meteorite.
3. It is believed that Danilov's "silver" water is healing and can cure such severe skin diseases as psoriasis. Alas, but so far medicine has not confirmed this fact.
4. But not only the first lake can boast of healing properties: the legend says that a person who plunges into all five lakes in turn will be completely cured of all diseases and become younger. The researcher of the water system Rechkin even connected this legend with Ershov’s fairy tale “About the Little Humpbacked Horse”: his Ivan the Fool also plunged into three cauldrons in turn and became prettier, and the tsar who rushed after him scalded.

Popular rumor ascribes not the best fame to Shaitan Lake. They call him filthy, rotten. It is believed that horses do not drink water from it, since it contains dead water - this legend was reflected in fairy tales, where the hero was asked to bring "dead" and "living" water. Swimming in it is also not recommended. Most likely, the ban was due to swamps and the inability to get close.
"Living" water is in the first three lakes. Alas, useful properties were found only in Danilov, although their strength has not been conclusively confirmed.
The complete list of lakes does not always include the fifth, the Hidden, which has the shape of a regular circle. It is believed that it does not let everyone in, but only the chosen ones. Therefore, it was almost impossible to plunge into all five reservoirs to gain strength. It is worth noting that the shape of the Crooked Lake looks like an elongated horseshoe.

All the legends today can be easily heard from the locals, but to believe them or not, everyone decides for himself.

Scientific research

Since the beginning of the 21st century, about 9 expeditions of geophysicists and biophysicists have been organized to the “five lakes”, the first one took place in 2003.

In 2008, an expedition from the Siberian University of Physical Culture and Sports took place. She drew attention to Danilovo Lake and took a sample of water, and her tasks included studying the bottom to prove the fall of a meteorite.

And although both problems have not yet been solved, this gave impetus to the study of reservoirs. Today, those who wish can independently explore the reservoirs by renting a scuba gear. In addition, this made it possible to increase the interest of tourists in Pyatiozerye.

But the "five lakes" are famous not only for their secrets and beautiful legends:

The writer Ershov, the author of The Little Humpbacked Horse, lived in the Omsk region and probably heard more than once about dipping into water bodies.
The so-called Okunev anomaly is known and of great interest: in the photographs taken by tourists, extra incomprehensible objects are clearly visible, for example, fireballs, laser beams, paths of huge footprints similar to birds, taken from nowhere and much more.
Indian myths say that it was in this place that the great battle between Rama and Evil took place. The victorious hero Hanuman received Siberia as a reward and set up a temple not far from Okunev, inside which the cosmic crystal of Wisdom was kept.
It is believed that the temple mentioned above is located exactly on the site of Shaitan Lake. That is why at the end of the 20th century, Rajni, a follower of the Indian guru Shri Babaji, unofficially settled nearby. In summer, the Solstice festival takes place here.
During the study of Danilov Lake, a depression was discovered, over which a "cornice" with old trees hung. Perhaps once its bottom was the surface of the earth, and then went down.
To date, it is believed that the meteorite could crash into the ground at an angle. This is evidenced by the displacement of the earth at the bottom of Lake Danilov;
In 2007, the Municipal State Institution "Five Lakes - Muromtsevo" was created, uniting all the tourist bases and youth camps of the region.

Places for rest

The area of "five lakes" is located 200 km from Omsk and 800 km from Novosibirsk, that is, travelers can stay in major cities and get to the place.

It is also worth considering that local residents largely live off tourism. You can stop at them or choose one of the many recreation centers. They can be located right on the beach or a few kilometers away, rent only rooms or entire houses.

On the shores of several lakes, scuba and catamaran rentals are organized for tourists, and there are places for fishing. On the official website you can find detailed information of interest, for example, where to stay.

For interesting data on the five lakes of the Omsk region, see the following video:

Lake Danilovo is one of the most famous small lakes in the Novosibirsk region, it is located on the territory of the land use of the village of Malokrasnoyarka, Kyshtovsky district, Novosibirsk region. In the northwest direction at a distance of about 1 km is the nearest locality- the village of Kurganka, Muromtsevsky district, Omsk region.
The shape of the lake is an oval, while the length is 0.78 km and the width is 0.45 km. The area of the lake is 29 hectares, including the surface area of the lake - 21 hectares. The depth of the lake increases towards the center according to the data of scuba divers. In 1975, the expedition of D.N. Fialkov in the center of the lake set a depth of 18 m.
The shores are gentle southeast coast has a hard sandy sloping bottom, the opposite one is marshy, swampy with a belt up to 50 m wide of reed-reed vegetation, which makes it difficult to approach the shore. From all sides the coast is surrounded by centuries-old pines, there are lonely bushes of bird cherry, mountain ash, viburnum and honeysuckle, aspen, in the Malokrasnoyarsk direction adjoins a birch forest. More than 10 rare and endangered species of plants are found in the flora of the lake and the coastal zone: brilliant pondweed, common watercress, white water lily, yellow water lily ... Along the shore, thickets of marsh cinquefoil, reeds, reeds and cattails rise from the water.
The water is very transparent, at a depth of up to 3-5 meters the bottom is visible, in shallow water schools of fish fry are visible. The transparency of water along the Sekke disk reaches 4 meters, in the neighboring Tara River and neighboring lakes - from a few centimeters to 2 meters. A huge array of pine forests, like deep springs, ensures the purity of the waters entering the lake. Fresh water, according to GOST is considered drinking.
Local residents do not know exactly about the origin of the name of the lake. Old-timers say that in the distant 20s of the last century, the merchant Danila, fleeing from Soviet power, fell through with a cart of silver, moving through this lake, from which the water in it became healing, and the lake was named after the merchant.
Sometimes the lake is called the "Pearl of Siberia" because of the unusual legends about the origin of the lake and healing properties his water. According to the legend, Danilovo, like the lakes Urmannoe, Lenevo, Shaitan Lake and the unfound Potayonnoe, are of the same origin - they were formed from the fall of five fragments of a large meteorite and all these 5 lakes are connected by the underground Shaitan River. The lakes are located approximately at an equal distance from each other in the form of the letter “G”, they have approximately the same shape and size, moreover, the water from all reservoirs does not deteriorate for a long time. According to clairvoyants Olga Gurbanovich, who lives in Nizhnevartovsk, and eight-year-old Lisa Podvysotskaya from the Komi Republic, people did not fully appreciate the peculiarity of water from all reservoirs: a swimmer in all lakes will acquire immortality. This beautiful legend the local storyteller P. Ershov laid the foundation for the fairy tale "The Little Humpbacked Horse".
In 2003-2004, Omsk geophysicists established with the help of instruments that below the bottom of the lake, at a depth of about 45-50 meters, there is a powerful aquifer called an underground river. Inspection of a dozen pits, the study of cliffs on both banks of the Tara River showed the identity of alternating layers of clay and sand in all cases, as is usually the case with river and lake sediments. I. A. Vyatkin, director of the federal state institution "Territorial Information Fund for the Omsk Region", offers his hypothesis of the creation of the lake: "More than 20-40 thousand years ago, when the north Western Siberia was covered by a glacier, a lake already existed on the watershed plain. As a result of the melting of the glacier, a valley of ancient runoff was formed, which also covered the lake. Then there was a slow uplift of land. The melt water expanded the lake basin, the lake separated from the general flow (the Tara River), while the release of small particles of soil from the lower layers is quite likely.
From the legends it is clear that the bottom of Lake Danilovo is triple! .. Scuba divers tested this legend. It turned out that there is some truth in this. Thick layers of algae are located in the water column in three floors. Each layer is, as it were, in limbo. Algae roots take everything they need for life directly from the water.
Water and mud have healing properties. Infusions and decoctions prepared from Danilovskaya water are highly effective, and the water rejuvenates the body well. It helps not only in the treatment of skin diseases, but also in toothache. Due to the high saturation of water with iodine in the Danilovo and Lenevo lakes, it is possible to heal patients with a thyroid gland. There are known cases of getting rid of skin cancer, throat cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, psoriasis, arthritis and arthrosis and many other intractable diseases with the help of Danilov Lake water, although the healing properties of water have not been fully studied. On the shore of the lake there is a deposit of green-bluish clay, which is used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Vacationers take clay and water from the lake in canisters, flasks and other containers. Since 2009, “local pilgrims”, having performed the Epiphany rite of bathing in the lake, “fill flasks and canisters with sacred water”.
There is a recreation area next to the lake. Along the entire southern sandy coast there are tents, and simply campsites for vacationers.
Ministry of Economic Development of the Novosibirsk Region / econom.nso.ru