Largest lakes & reservoirs in Russia by acres
This is a comparison for lakes within Russia > - Compared by surface area in acres.Note: For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Acres" data is unknown or does not apply, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 6 articles we have published for Russia lakes.
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Lake name  |
Surface area in acres |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Northern Caucases, Povolzhsky, Russia, Turkmenistan) |
107,737,946 ac | Also known as Mazandaran Sea, Khazar Sea, Khvalyn Sea With the largest volume of any saltwater “lake” on earth, the Caspian Sea holds well over 62 billion acre-feet of saltwater. Many classify the Caspian… |
| Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia, Russia) |
7,782,336 ac | Also known as Lake Baykal, Sacred Sea, Pearl of Siberia, Blue Eye of Siberia, Galapagos of Russia Russia’s national treasure, Lake Baikal, is the world’s deepest lake and is our planet’s largest freshwater lake measured by water volume. Its bottom… |
| Lake Ladoga (North-Western, Russia) |
4,481,238 ac | Also known as Lake Laatokka, Ladozhskoye Ozero Located 25 miles north of St. Petersburg, Russia’s Lake Ladoga is the largest freshwater body in Europe with a surface area of 4,481,238 acres. The am… |
| Kuybyshev Reservoir (Povolzhsky, Russia) |
1,593,823 ac | Also known as Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir, Kuibyshev Reservoir The Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir is a 1,593,823-acre lake in the middle of the Volga and lower Kama rivers in west central (Middle… |
| Bratsk Reservoir (Eastern Siberia, Russia) |
1,351,680 ac | It has been said that one of the most striking things about Siberia is the scale. Just the name conjures images of vast snowy expanses, impossibly thi… |
| Rybinsk Reservoir (Central, Northern, Russia) |
1,124,329 ac | Also known as Rybinsk Sea Located in western European Russia, Rybinsk Reservoir is as large and impressive as Russia itself. Rybinsk Reservoir sits on the Volga River as part o… |
