The Kola River is a unique place for fishing and recreation.

Our country is rich in beautiful corners of nature, where its strength and beauty are most clearly revealed. The Kola Peninsula is one of them. This is the edge of the widest stone plateaus and snow-capped mountains, fast rivers and clean lakes. Surprising here nature - severe, ascetic, majestic in its beauty.

Kola Peninsula

The Kola Peninsula lies beyond the Arctic Circle, in the northwestern part of Russia. Its territory covers an area of almost 100 thousand square meters. Km (70% of the Murmansk region) and is washed from the north by the White Sea, and in the southeast by the Barents Seas. The complex relief of the region is formed by hollows, mountains, terraces and numerous plateaus. Its peculiarities were added by the glaciers of the Quaternary period, which had a powerful impact and left glacial "scars", smoothed mountain peaks, trough valleys.

The area is riddled with numerous lakes and rivers. They divided the territory into separate arrays, the inhabitants of the peninsula call them "tundra." There are more than 18 thousand rivers here. Many of them cross on their way countless number of lakes, threading them like blue beads on a string. The Arctic is not for nothing called the lake edge - the water bodies on the peninsula are more than 100 thousand, mostly shallow, glacial, but there are also large ones.

Characteristics of the Kolya River

From the northern Kolosera Bay, the Murmansk river Kola originates. Then in the steep banks strewn with boulders, then among the plains where the trees approach the water, it aspires to the Barents Sea and, having covered 83 km in a heavily hilly region, flows into the Kola Bay.

The nature of the river is quite diverse, there are small rocky rifts, flat areas are replaced by rapids. The width of the channel varies from 5 to 15 km. The Kola River does not dry out, but the water level , depending on the season, either decreases or rises considerably after the rains. The majestic pine, birch, mountain ash; In places - steep slopes, strewn with large blocks.

Main tributaries

The Kola River in the Murmansk Region has numerous tributaries. The main, the largest of them: Big Kitsa, Bear, Tyukhta, Voron'ya, Orlovka, Kildinskiy brook. Cola on its way passes a chain of lakes, three are fairly large water bodies (Kolosero, Pulozzero, Murdozero). As a result, the area of the basin together with the tributaries and lakes is 3850 sq.km.

In the notes of Lieutenant Fleet Reineke M., published in St. Petersburg in 1830, you can find a description of the river. Cola, as it became known, had previously flowed north of the city of Kola, but then changed the channel, cutting off the lowland cape from the eastern shore of the bay and forming a small island.

origin of name

The Kola River gave its name to the city of the same name, and to the bay, and to the entire peninsula, standing on its shores. There are different versions of the origin of this name. Perhaps it came from the Sami word "koljok", that is, the "golden river". It is not excluded and its origin from the Finno-Ugric "kul'joki" - "fish river".

Anyway, but over time the name was safely transformed into a modern and familiar Russian rumor - the river Kola.

Fishing without Borders

"Fish" toponyms in some cases bring to us information about what our ancestors traded. And in our time the Kola Peninsula is a very attractive place for true connoisseurs of fishing from the noble family of salmon: trout, trout, grayling, and whitefish. But most of all fishermen are attracted by the queen of the Kola waters - salmon.

Kola is a salmon river with a lot of large fish. Every year, in the hope of a record catch, thousands of anglers come here. The season from May 15 until the end of June is the best time for fishing, because there is a new strong fish coming from the sea, and sometimes specimens weighing up to 20 kg come across. By the size of individuals, the Kola River is considered the most outstanding in the world. It's no wonder that in search of special impressions from catching this beautiful, powerful and very tasty fish, professionals and amateurs come here not only from all Russian corners, but also from Europe.

Kolka's uniqueness lies in its accessibility. It flows right next to the regional center, and you can get to the fishing place very quickly.

Active rest on the river

The Kola River and its tributaries are a great place to relax in nature. Plain areas are ideal for a leisurely family fusion, during which you can admire the surrounding landscape. On the gentle banks there are equipped parking lots for organizing a picnic. There are many places on the river where lovers of sports rest can rafting, and in the lower reaches of it, which is a multi-kilometer threshold, there are organized routes of varying complexity for kayaking.

The Kola Peninsula attracts people who are looking for adventure and love new experiences, those who like rest away from civilization, surrounded by the beauties of northern nature. Many, having visited this mysterious and enchanting region, strive to return to this paradise for an esthete again.