Deepest lakes & reservoirs in Russia by maximum depth (ft)
The estimated greatest depth of the water in a lake can be measured at the lake’s normal elevation. If the water volume and surface area of a lake are known, an estimate of the lake’s average depth can be calculated:Water volume ÷ Surface Area = Average Depth
Example: 1,000,000 acre-feet ÷ 20,000 acres = 50 feet average depth.
You can find many of the the world’s deepest lakes on LakeLubbers. If you sort the list, you will find the (maximum depth of) the shallowest lakes in our database. Note: For some lakes, lake depth data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 6 articles we have published for Russia lakes.
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Below are lakes within Russia > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in Russia, only the 6 Russia lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Baikal, Russia (Eastern Siberia Region, Russia, Russia) |
5,314 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… |
| Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Northern Caucases Region, Russia, Povolzhsky Region, Russia, Russia, Turkmenistan) |
3,363 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 Ladoga, Russia (North-Western Region, Russia, Russia) |
755 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, Russia (Eastern Siberia Region, Russia, Russia) |
361 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, Russia (Povolzhsky Region, Russia, Russia) |
135 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, Russia (Central Russia, Northern Russia, Russia) |
100 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… |