Where is the source of the river flow. The economic importance of common pike perch
We looked around. The water level is approximately in the channel, the current is not strong, the water is surprisingly clean, there is not much garbage on the shore, which naturally could not but please us.
The “brigade” of two fishermen who arrived, as it turned out two hours earlier, had already managed to occupy the opposite bank and we were left with a “pressure” on our side, upstream. We were not upset at all with this information, since it was our permanent place for arranging gear.
They lowered the Aurora into the water, took the modernized bottom caps and went to arrange it. The process took a little more than an hour and fifteen snacks are waiting for a bite. In the meantime, having returned to the shore, the first thing we did was to set up the camp, set up and equipped a tent for sleeping, dug a pit for a fire, prepared firewood and prepared a fire pit. Then they took out provisions, prepared at home for a quick snack, sat down to dinner. Time passed quickly, the sun approached the horizon line, and it was time for us to check our gear. But in the late afternoon a rather strong wind arose, according to the forecast of weather forecasters 6-7 m / s of a north-western direction, but in fact at least 10 meters with gusts. And as it is not sad, the wind blew along the river, respectively, the wave rose high. Having reached the tackle, they found with bitterness the absence of a bite, which, in such weather, was almost not surprising. Came back and tried to catch on float rods from the shore. From time to time, small gobies, crucian carp and white bream pecked. Since we were not going to cook fish soup that day, all the fish were released. The sun sank below the horizon, night fell on the earth. With a flick of the wrist, the fire lit up the clearing. Sitting comfortably closer to the fire, we began to fry sausages while talking, planting them on thin twigs. As usual, in nature, this dish was at its best in taste. In the meantime, the wind died down and almost complete silence reigned on the shore, which was sometimes broken by splashes of fish, the noise of the air from flying night birds and the singing of a small bird in a tree next to us. As it turned out later, this bird “sang” all night long without stopping, which affected sleep. But since we went to bed early enough, we slept well.
We get up early, at five o'clock we go down to the water and check. During the night, a couple of small sazanchiks coveted, one kilogram by three and the other about a kilogram, which we let grow up. More fish were caught during the day. The weather that day (7.05) was excellent, the sun shone all day, a light breeze, which had a positive effect on the bite. They even caught a worthy bream with fishing rods, two of which were still sentenced to a frying pan. Like yesterday, the day ended quickly enough and now the next night is already descending to the ground, but we are all ready - the fire again lit up our clearing. Today we decided not to go to bed early and closer to midnight to check again with the hope of a night trophy, which we did not wait for. Another carp, not much more than a kilogram, was caught, which, after the photo shoot, sailed away.
The third and final day of our fishing also started early in the morning. The same bird sang all night again. When we woke up, we saw that the whole sky was overcast with rain clouds and a medium breeze was blowing right from the morning. We quickly checked the gear, having caught one carp about three kilograms, we return to the camp and start packing home. At eleven o'clock we hit the road, pulling out three more tuzikov and packing the car, moved towards the house. True, the first drops of rain still had time to wet us a little, but it didn’t spoil it in any way Have a good mood, obtained during a three-day fishing trip, far from civilization.
In the end, eighteen carp were caught different weight, the largest at 3.5kg, Six fish left for home, the rest swam away without damage back.
River fish is very tasty, natural.
Release the fish, don't take home everything you catch!!! Even compared to five years ago, there are much fewer fish in the reservoirs !!!
"Guide to the Kuban" Samoylenko A.A.
Slavyansk-on-Kuban - Baranikovskiy, 20 km- Galitsin, 17 km - Chebur-gol, 13 km- Grivenskaya, 15 km- Achuevo, 55 km.
The route along the Protoka is of interest for lovers of a relaxing holiday. The recommended means of rafting are kayaks or catamarans. Here the river is navigable. Rafting is possible only during daylight hours. On the river there is a passenger line Slavyansk-on-Kuban - Achuyevo, cargo barges and tugs go.
Slavyansk-on-Kuban is located on the left bank of the Channel, 15 km from the division of the Kuban into branches. Rafting is convenient to start at the city beach on the left bank, 200-300 m above the river station.
The channel in the city area is a calm river with a wide, well-developed channel. Now on the right, then on the left there are steep banks. Where they are gently sloping, almost everywhere there are protective dams from floods. There are no obstacles on the water, the main danger is shipping. It is better to move along the river near low banks and outside the fairway. Be especially careful before turns.
All major settlements along the route have marinas or moorings. After 1.5-2 km after the village of Zaboisky, in the channel is the large island of Vasilchikov. The navigable Channel is on the left, but the right one is almost always passable for tourist ships. There is a ferry across the river at Grivenskaya.
Below the village of Protoka, it changes direction from north to west and rushes to the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. Here, too, all the gently sloping banks are fortified with dams, behind which continuous floodplains stretch.
From the arrow of the island to the mouth about 30 km, the nature of the river is the same, the current is very weak. Before the village of Achuevo on the banks it is bad with firewood.
Pike perch is valuable commercial fish, as well as an object of sport hunting, therefore, in some countries, the catch of this fish species is limited.
Pike perch meat is considered a useful dietary product - its fat content is minimal. The nutritional value of pike perch is very high - the protein content in it exceeds 18%. All 20 amino acids are present in pike perch meat, 8 of which are essential (that is, they are not synthesized by the human body), and, in addition, it contains a lot of minerals needed by a person (phosphorus, potassium, iodine, molybdenum, manganese and others).
As an object of breeding in fish farming, pike perch is interesting in that it has a relatively high resistance to various types diseases. It also has high length and weight indicators, is a typical predator, can serve as an ameliorator in pond and farm fish farming (destroys weed fish).
A valuable object of fishing, especially in large lakes, reservoirs, deltaic areas of rivers and in desalinated bays of the seas. IN last years due to water pollution, its catches in most water bodies are falling sharply, so it is necessary to maintain the number of pikeperch by breeding juveniles and ameliorating spawning grounds.
Pike perch is caught with bottom fishing rods, spinning rods, circles, on the track, fishing rods for sheer lure, equipped with a fishing line with a diameter of 0.4 mm and a length of 30-35 cm and single light hooks No. 7-10, on which fry or live bait, fish pieces, small frogs.
Characteristics of the Protoka River
The catch of the studied material was carried out on the Protoka River (Figure 1).
Figure 1 - Protoka River
The channel is the right delta branch of the Kuban River. From the Fedorovsky hydroelectric complex, the Protoka flows first to the north, to the village of Grivenskaya, then to the west - to the village of Achuevo, and here, having overcome a 140-kilometer path, it flows into the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. It separates the Slavyansky district from Krasnoarmeisky and Primorsko-Akhtarsky. The river valley is a flat plain. The floodplain is weakly expressed. As it approaches the sea, it expands and turns into continuous floodplains (estuaries), coastal ridges stretch along the channel in parallel ridges, rising 1.5 - 2 m above the surrounding area. Earthen dams were erected on them to protect against floods. In December - January, the Protoka is covered with ice, which lasts 35 - 40 days. Navigation on the river lasts 10 months, in some years it does not stop at all.
The channel is a huge reservoir of fresh water used for irrigation of rice fields and desalinization of the Azov floodplains and the richest fishing ground. In its lower reaches, zucic goby, round goby, verkhovka, silver bream, asp, crucian carp, rudd, bream, tench, perch, minnow, roach, bleak, sabrefish, catfish, pike perch, pike, and ide are caught (Lotyshev, 2000).
The length of the river is 140 km. It is navigable along its entire length, but is practically not used as such. Settlements on the left bank: the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Serbina farm, pos. Sovkhozny, pos. Coastal, pos. Sadovy, farms Baranikovsky, Neshchadimovsky, Vodny, Pogorelovo, Galitsyn, Krasnoarmeisky town, Zaboisky, Derevyankovka, the villages of Golubaya Niva and Achuyevo. On the right: the farms of Tikhovsky, Korzhevsky, Turkovsky, Chigrina, Krizhanovsky, Trudobelikovsky, Protichka, Prototsky, the villages of Cheburgolskaya and Grivenskaya.
According to the analysis of samples of the Slavyansk Gorvodokanal, today many water pollution exceed allowable level and are often toxic.
The negative impact on the environment, including the Protoka River, is caused by the economic activity of the oil and gas production facilities, the use of agrochemicals by agricultural enterprises, violation of the rules for handling production and consumption waste, and their disposal. Serious pollution occurs due to the extraction of iodine-bromine waters and the extraction of iodine from them at the State Unitary Enterprise "TIZ" of the Crimean region, as well as the location of the mercury spring near the village. Kholmsky.
Bioindication in accordance with the Woodiwiss scale is approximately 7, that is, the water in the Protoka River is of medium degree of pollution. When determining organoleptic indicators, it was revealed that the color and smell in the river are slightly earthy; pH = 6.8 - within the normal range [Lotyshev, 2000].
The northern branch of the Kuban washes the territory of the Slavyansk region (according to the latest data) for 135.5 kilometers, which is almost half the length of the district border municipality. The opposite bank of the Protoka is divided among themselves by three administrative districts of the region: Krasnoarmeisky, Kalininsky and Primorsko-Akhtarsky. The river acquired its current name a little over 200 years ago, but its pedigree goes back centuries.
Acquaintance with historical and geographical sources relating to the Kuban delta and the Eastern Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov shows that the most ancient name of the Channel that has come down to us is Gipanis (“Horse” or “Horse”). Also at the beginning of the 1st century BC, the Kuban itself was called. The Roman historian A. Polyhistor writes: “Hypanis ... is divided into two branches, one of which flows into Meotida (Sea of Azov), and the other into Pontus (Black Sea).” Since the then name of the second (southern) arm is known for certain - Vardan, it is safe to say that the mother's name went to the northern arm.
An analysis of the situation associated with the campaign of Pharnaces II against the Dandaris (63 BC) leads to the idea that in ancient times it was the Protoka that was called Hypanis. In order to subjugate the recalcitrant Meotians to his power, the Bosporan king flooded their cultivated fields with the waters of the river flowing nearby. And in the time of Farnak, the only place in the Kuban delta where one could permanently live and engage in agriculture was the left riverine rampart of the upper reaches of the Protoka. It is possible that this accumulative formation, similar to a horse's mane, served as the basis for assigning such an unusual name to the river.
At the turn of the old and the new era, the northern branch of the Kuban belonged to one of those six names of the rivers of the eastern coast of Meotida, which are listed in Strabo's "Geography". The well-known Caucasian scholar S. Bronevsky, referring to "a sleeve flowing from Kopyl directly into the Sea of Azov," believes: "It seems that the location of the Strabon river Atitsita, or Antimas, befits it." Translated from Greek, the hydronym means Sturgeon.
The Alexandrian scientist K. Ptolemy, who lived 100 years later than Strabo, not only agrees with the “father of geography” in terms of the names of the Eastern Meotian rivers, but also gives the coordinates of the then places where they flow into the sea. However, this does not make it easier to identify individual streams, since the coordinates of their mouths (latitude and longitude) are not obtained from astronomical definitions, but from surveys of Arab and Greek merchants and travelers.
Information about what names the northern branch of the Kuban wore in the era of the Great Migration of Peoples (4th-6th centuries of the new era) has not been preserved by history. But, based on the fact that the Asian nomads going to Europe first got acquainted with the upper and middle reaches largest river Ciscaucasia, and only then with its deltaic arms, it is logical to assume that the same names that the Kuban bore could extend to the then Protoka.
In the 7th-9th centuries, while the descendants of Khan Batbai, who refused to move to the Danube, lived on the territory of the Kuban delta, the northern branch managed to change about half a dozen Bulgarian names similar in form: Kofin, Kofeen, Kopkhen, Kupis, Kupi. According to scientists, all hydronyms translated into Russian meant the same thing - "water". It is quite possible that some of them were the names of large eriks fed by the Kuban and the Protoka: Davidovka, Kalaus, Deep Pass.
At the end of the 10th century, when the Russian principality of Tmutarakan existed on the Taman Peninsula, the northern branch of the Kuban, which had previously flowed into the Akhtar estuaries, for some unknown reason turned west (near the present village of Grivenskaya) and carried its waters along one of the left-bank eriks directly to the Azov sea. By this time, the appearance in the works of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII of the name "Burlik", consonant with the Russian adjective "Stormy" and, supposedly, befitting the Kuban. But modern scientists see in it the Turkic phrase "drying river" and associate it with the Akhtar channel of the Protoka, believing that this "is more in line with geographical reality."
Written documents and maps from the times of the Italian colonization of the North-Western Caucasus (XII-XV century) brought to our days a series of names of the Kuban delta branches with the base Kopa: Koppo, Lakopa, Lakup, Lotsikopa, Kopario. Many researchers position them with the Protoka, on which stood the largest overseas trading post of the Republic of Genoa - Kopa, which specialized in the trade of fish, caviar and slaves (the current city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban). The semantics (meaning) of the names still remains unclear: some scholars see in them the Greek verb kopto “to ply fish”, others - the Turkic noun kopa “swamp”, “a small lake covered with reeds”.
From the end of the 15th century, after the defeat of the Genoese colonies by the Ottoman troops and the inclusion of the Taman Peninsula with the Eastern Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov into the Crimean Khanate, the former trading post Kopa became known as the "Empty City in Cuba". But it is possible to assert that it was the Protoka that was understood by the river, with some caution, since the main branch of the Kuban flowed next to the former Italian colony at that time, which after a long time received the name Kubanka, or Old Kuban.
In the second half of the 16th century, the Nogais of the Lesser Horde (Kazyeva ulus) flooded the North Caucasian steppes, and a powerful New Turkic layer began to form in the local hydronymy. The key elements of river names were su "water", kum "sand", bash "head". There is an assumption that the northern branch of the Kuban also first bore the name of Karasu "Black Water", or "Chernovovod", and then - Kumak "Sandy River", under which he got into the well-known set of geographical names "The Book of the Big Drawing", which first saw the light in 1627.
During the 17th century, when the Ottoman outposts Kopyl (Eski-Kopyl) and Achu (Achuev) were built on the banks of the Channel, the river had two Turkic names at once - the Nogai Kumli-Kuban "Sandy Kuban" and the Tatar Kara-Kuban "Black Kuban". Moreover, the first of them referred to the upper and middle reaches of the northern branch, and the second - only to the lower reaches. Both hydronyms emphasized the high turbidity of the water stream, which was intensively paving a new, shorter road to the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov.
On Turkish maps dating back to the time of the construction of the Yeni-Kopyl fortress on the lower (north-western) section of the Kuban (1747), the upper segment of the northern arm is accompanied by the inscription Kara-Gul "Black Lake". Passing out a watercourse as a body of water, the Ottoman cartographers did not sin against the truth, because at that time "The channel was a complex system of lake-like extensions and branches connecting them." The largest of these "channel estuaries" later received a family name - Rudivsky.
After the resettlement of the Bessarabian nomads in the Western Ciscaucasia (1771), the banks of the northern branch of the Kuban were occupied by the Burlatsky and Mainsky generations of the Yedichkul horde. And soon the Turkish name for the upper and middle reaches of the river was replaced by the Nogai one - Kumazek "Sandy Channel". The same component ozek with the definition teren “deep” gave the name to the left-bank erik Protoki. A few decades later, when the watercourse dried up, the inhabitants of the village of Petrovsky, located on its banks, converted the Deep Channel into the Deep Pass, and the lower reaches of the former erik into just the Pass.
During the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, the first domestic maps appeared, which gave a fairly clear idea of the hydrography of the Kuban delta and, in particular, of its main junction (lower section). So, on the map compiled by order of the commander of the Kuban corps I.F. Brink, it can be seen that Kumli-Kuban (Kuban itself - B.R.) near the city of Yeni-Kopyl was divided into three branches. To the left, to the west, a narrow, 25-30 sazhens wide, branch, which the Circassians called Pshegis (Kuban), departed. The middle branch, the most abundant, flowed to the north and was called Kumuzyun in Nogai, and Kara-Kuban in Tatar. The third was the erik, which flowed half a verst above the source of the Kumuzyun and was called Zhigran (Cossack).
With the transition of the Taman Peninsula and the Eastern Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov under the rule of Russia (1784), the vigilance of the new state border and the protection of the fortifications inherited from the Turks were entrusted to the Don Cossacks. Therefore, a clarification appeared on the “Plan of the Achuev Fortress”: after the signature “Kara-Kuban River” followed “or Cossack Yerik”. The identification of the delta branch with a secondary watercourse would not have looked so “humiliating” if the small mouth, separated from it just below the former Ottoman outpost and flowing into the Sea of Azov, did not continue to be called the “Uzen River”.
The scout of the Black Sea Cossacks, the military captain M. Gulik, who traveled around the borders of the land not yet donated by Catherine II, twice crossed the northern branch of the Kuban - near the source and at the very mouth. In his “Vedomosti, what is the situation of the Taman and Kuban lands”, presented to the military authorities in the summer of 1792, the hydronym Cherny Protok was first indicated. True, the Cossack pioneer got confused in the hydrography of the lower section of the Kuban and placed a “large earthen fortress” (Yeni-Kopyl) not on the left, but on the right bank of the Black Channel.
The descendants of the Zaporozhye Cossacks who settled on the Kuban land not only brought with them ready-made titles future villages, but also significantly corrected the local hydronymy. So, the Black Channel first turned into the Black Channel, and at the end of the 18th century, it became simply the Channel. Moreover, behind the lower course of the river, the name Protochka was established in local use, since, starting from the village of Novonizhesteblievsky (Grivensky), its water content greatly decreased and “it was at least half narrower.” At that time a lot river water flowed into the coastal floodplains, and also evaporated from the surface of a vast channel estuary, which was called Krasnogolsky.
Not having time to be born, the hydronym Protoka was called to the service of the emerging Slavic toponymy of the new territorial acquisition of Russia. Already in March 1794, one of the 20 guard posts of the Black Sea cordon line, which stretched along the right bank of the Kuban from the mouth of the Laba to the Bugaz estuary, received the name of the river. The Prototsky post was removed from the border and guarded, in fact, not it, but one of the roads connecting the Kopyl and Andreevskaya postal stations. Later, a battery appeared next to the post, which also became known as Prototskaya.
In the early 30s of the nineteenth century, after the implementation of measures to strengthen the southern border of Russia, outlined by A.P. Yermolov, the main branch of the Kuban (Kubank) finally silted up and dried up. Together with him, the lower division also went into oblivion. And a full-flowing 10-kilometer section of the main channel, connecting two branching nodes, increased the Channel from above and took its name. Soon, the Ukrainized diminutive Protichka branched off from the hydronym, denoting the right-bank oxbow lake of the northern branch of the Kuban.
In 1840, as a result of the strongest surge of water from the Sea of Azov, the Sladkoe and Rubtsovskoe branches of the Channels were clogged with sediment. By the same time, its right-bank erik, which previously “flowed into the sea as an independent mouth,” completely swam. To top it all off, 6 years after the natural disaster, at the request of Achuevsk fishery farmer A.L. The Pospolitaki were immediately crammed with 70 left-bank eriks of the Protoka. As a result, the volume of water that flowed along the river bed increased significantly. Therefore, “from the Protoka it was renamed into the Protoka” and in the lower reaches.
In the 50s of the 19th century, topographers of the Land Survey Commission of the Black Sea Cossack Army made an instrumental survey of the Channel and its coastal strips for the first time. The maps obtained made it possible to see not only the meanders of the channel, the sources of the eriks, the places where the river crossed with the ancient bars of the Sea of Azov, but also the channel formations - islands and spits. However, the network of eriks, the beginning of which was given by Protoka, still was not "depicted on any map even with approximate fidelity." This probably explains the confusion in their names, which continues to this day.
A year and a half after the end of the Caucasian War, one of the five new villages of the Kuban Cossack Host (KKV) was installed on the site of the lower division. And although the village was in the arms of the deltaic arms, there was no suitable “river” name for it: everything that was associated with the hydronyms Kuban and Protoka already had its own carriers. Therefore, the new village was called Slavyanskaya - in honor of the guard post of the former Black Sea cordon line, which stood on the site of the Tikhovsky farm. But the inhabitants of the surrounding villages for a long time called her in the old fashioned way - Kopyly.
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, shipping began to develop on the Protok. In this regard, an office of the "Ditsman Partnership" was opened in the village of Slavyanskaya. However, navigation along the northern branch faced even greater difficulties than along the Kuban itself. The fairway was constantly clogged with karches, and the guaranteed depths (on the segment Slavyanskaya - Achuev) did not exceed three feet. In this situation, the local population, replenished with immigrants from the central provinces of Russia, began to perceive the name of the Protoka as a common term. And on sale there were photographs and postcards with views of the river and the signatures "Protoka Kuban".
But during the First World War, the shaken nominative status of the Protoka hydronym was restored. The Kushchevka-Krymskaya railway line passed through the village of Slavyanskaya - the center of the Taman department of the KKV, and the station, located on the left bank of the northern branch of the Kuban, was called Protoka. Confirmation that the name was imprinted with a hydronym, and not a common term, was the assignment of the names of watercourses (eriks) and two neighboring stations - Angelinskaya and Poltavskaya.
During the years of Soviet power, the hydronym Protoka gained no less popularity in the delta than the Kuban. The village council, the machine and tractor station, the water management system and the rice-growing state farm in the Slavyansky district, the farms in the Kalininsky and Krasnoarmeysky regions, the oil depot and the grain receiving point in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban - all of them began to be called Prototsky, Protochny, Protoksky, demonstrating not only a wide the nominative range of the river name, but also the word-formation flexibility of Russian grammar.
In the second half of the last century, an idea was born: to register the hydronym Protoka in the full (official) name of Slavyansk. Its initiators proceeded from the fact that the city does not stand on the river that appears in the urban name. But the advocates of hydrographic justice made two mistakes at once. Firstly, the prefix “in the Kuban” initially indicated not the riverine position of the city, but its administrative affiliation, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it lost its purpose. Secondly, Slavyansk, in the literal sense of the word, stands in the Kuban, that is, on the silted channel and riverbed ramparts of the former main branch of the largest river in the Western Ciscaucasia, and its unique microlocation is accurately reflected in the full name of the city.
If the memory of the past of the Kuban keeps only a part of the urbonym, then the Protoka was much more fortunate. The Turkism of Kara-Kuban has survived to this day, forcing scientists to pay attention to the foreign-language surroundings of the name of the Channel. Only now the former hydronym represents not a 30-kilometer side channel of the northern branch of the Kuban, but a fragment of its accumulative ridge, which miraculously survived the construction of the Chernoerkovskaya irrigation system. At the beginning of the new millennium, the Karakuban ridge gave its name to a downhole agricultural firm specializing in rice cultivation, and to the most remote ("wild") section of the Slavic hunting farm.
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, two publications came out of print that are directly related to the topic of this article: the Atlas "Flow the Kuban" and the monograph "Hydrology of the delta and estuarine coast of the Kuban". Both there and there, the Achuevsky node of the branching of the Protoka appears. But in the manual for hunters and fishermen, the main watercourse flowing into the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov is called the Cossack arm, and in scientific work it is the Right arm. Based on the fact that the indicated watercourse continues the direction of the flow and transports 80 percent of the burden of the Channel, it would be logical to extend its name to it.
B.T. Reshitko,
active member of the Russian
Geographical Society, Head
commission on toponymy of Krasnodar
regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society
It serves as a water border between two regions, Slavyansky and Krasnoarmeisky, also Primoro-Akhtarsky. The total length of the river is 140 km. It is deep enough along its entire length so that ships could easily navigate, but the Protoka is not used in this way today. The water of the river is used in a different way, it serves as a natural source of water irrigating the rice systems of those nearby areas, which it divides as a border.
The channel is also the right branch of another river, starting from the Fedorovsky hydroelectric complex up to the edge. Previously, it was called Kara-Kuban or "Black Channel", then another word disappeared, leaving simply the Channel.
The nature of the river
Along the way, it is quite populated. To the left is the Serbina farm, then Slavyansk, to the side are the villages of Sovkhoznoye and Coastal, and many others. The canal seems to connect them with each other, serving not only as a border in the regions, but also as a link.
The places there are very beautiful, the shores just ask for a walk. With the advent of spring, grasses bloom wildly and trees turn green, coloring the world around us with shades of green. In autumn, it all turns yellow, reddens, evoking romantic thoughts. The climate in the region is quite mild, winters are not so severe, frosty days are rare.
Tourists often come there not only to visit the numerous villages and farms scattered along the banks of the Protoka here and there, but also simply to greet the river, walk along the coast or sit with a fishing rod, since there are plenty of convenient places. The shores are gently sloping, in some places there are hills covered with shrubs and herbs. The course of the river is calm, sometimes it seems that it does not move at all, the water surface is so motionless. In winter, it is covered with ice in places, it stays for some time, then melts. Spring comes to those parts early, in February, slowly declaring itself.
In the Protoka there are many different fish, making it attractive to anglers.
