The Uchinsk reservoir is one of the artificial reservoirs in the hydraulic system of the Moscow Canal. But from the entire chain of other large reservoirs of this system, it has a number of significant differences. All fundamental differences are due to the functional purpose of the reservoir, located away from the main navigable channel fairway. The Uchinskoe reservoir is one of the main sources providing sustainable water supply to such a grandiose metropolis as the city of Moscow. It is from here that the main volume of water intake is produced. Water flows through a special channel to the Moscow Eastern Waterworks, from where it is distributed to consumers.
Uchinskoe reservoir. Its natural and economic features
The history of this place dates back to 1937, when the construction of the Akulovsky hydroelectric complex on the Uche River was completed. The Uchinsk reservoir formed here had a length of twelve kilometers and a width of about three. Depth reaches twenty meters. The main thing is that for several decades it has determined the external appearance of this reservoir, it is an administrative regime that limits the free access of citizens on its coast. The area around the Uchinsky reservoir is a strict water protection zone. It is this circumstance that explains the complete absence of any tourist infrastructure in such places, by all other parameters, suitable for a Sunday holiday. There are no tourist centers, swimming, burning fires on the shore and moving around the water in motor boats is prohibited. Locals most often call the word "prohibition" what is indicated on the map as the Uchinskoe reservoir. Rest on this is not quite for all accessible territory, in fact, is possible. But at your own peril and risk. For many, this place is precisely for that and beloved - for its inaccessibility to the broad tourist masses.
This is one of the most environmentally friendly places in the entire near and more distant suburbs. By the way, it is this circumstance that provides good fishing for everyone who managed to get to the Uchinskoye reservoir by secret paths. The map suggests that this is easiest to do from the north-east direction, from the Yaroslavl highway. But it is quite possible to get there by train from the Yaroslavl station, going to the
platform of the Pravda station. Here you will have to transfer to a regular bus of route 36 and a trip to the Quarry stop. But the most reliable transport for this kind of travel should be recognized as a bicycle.
Recent negative phenomena
These include the weakening of the administrative regime. The nature around the Uchinsky reservoir is too good for various corrupt and simply influential people to catch their eyes on it. In recent years, more and more diverse buildings have appeared on the territory prohibited for ordinary citizens, and this cannot but negatively affect the ecology of the water protection zone. The southwestern shore of the reservoir is especially actively being developed.