Largest lakes & reservoirs in Russia by water volume
This is a comparison for lakes within Russia > - Compared by Largest Lakes - Water Volume in acre-foot.For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Water Volume" is unknown or does not apply, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 6 articles we have published for Russia lakes.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
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Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Northern Caucases, Povolzhsky, Russia, Turkmenistan) |
62,424,915,900 ac-ft | (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) |
19,261,440,000 ac-ft | (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) |
736,127,580 ac-ft | (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… |
| Bratsk Reservoir (Eastern Siberia, Russia) |
137,229,339 ac-ft | 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… |
| Kuybyshev Reservoir (Povolzhsky, Russia) |
46,453,866 ac-ft | (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… |
| Rybinsk Reservoir (Central, Northern, Russia) |
20,592,115 ac-ft | (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… |
