Interesting facts about the Caspian Sea

• Interesting facts about the Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea - is extremely important for the economy and shipping reservoir, in which many centuries ago sailed brave sailors. It is completely closed, that is, separated from the world ocean waters, making it unique in its kind. Caspian Sea coast is very beautiful, and they located a lot of different resorts. Heading north lake stretched more than 1,000 kilometers, and in the east - 435.

So far, the scientists debate about whether to consider the Caspian Sea is the sea, and still give it the status of the lake. This ambiguity is due to the fact that this sea is closed and draining (which, incidentally, is the largest of all closed bodies of water), but at the same time it is more than the size of some of the other seas.

Depth: At the deepest point of the Caspian Sea water surface from the bottom of the distance separates more than a kilometer (1025m).

The water level in the Caspian Sea is not stable, but there is a downward trend.

The Caspian Sea is located on the border of Europe and Asia.

Caspian Sea Water Washed five states, with Russia belongs to the lowest among other section of its coastline

There is a scientific theory that the Black and Caspian Seas were one unit more, about ten thousand years ago.

Most of the water in the Caspian Sea brings the Volga River.

In the waters of the Caspian Sea is home to over a hundred different species of fish. In fact, it's not so much - for example, in the Lena River fish species - more.

It is in the Caspian Sea produced nine-tenths of all black caviar produced in the world. The most expensive caviar - a "Almas", beluga caviar albino, occasionally exported from Iran. Packaged in cans of pure gold

The water in the Caspian Sea is completely updated every quarter for thousands of years.

The biggest beluga caught in Russia in 1921, holds the palm until now. It weighed 1224 kg and was caught in the Caspian Sea. Giant fish was filled with caviar. Photos of the biggest beluga simply amazing. The king-size fish is comparable with oceanic monsters: sharks, whales, narwhals.

the Caspian Sea area larger than Japan Square, and a little less than the size of Germany. The area is now - about 371 thousand square meters. km

If we assume that the Caspian Sea is still a lake rather than the sea, it will be the third depth, behind the first two places of the lakes Baikal and Tanganyika

In the sea inhabited by 850 species of animals. The most unique of the Caspian Sea animal - a Caspian seal. Caspian seals can be easily found in the waters of the sea just in the past few years. Local people even claim that while swimming in the sea or a fishing trip could easily be seen as a seal swimming nearby. At the moment, the Caspian seal population has decreased in the 10s again, and the view is on the verge of extinction.