• Let’s delve into the essence of Sarez Lake and understand why it stands as a testament to the grandeur of nature.
  • Sarez lake is one of the most beautiful lakes in Tajikistan, located in the Pamirs. ... Lake Sarez stretches almost 60 km long and is about 500 meters deep.
  • Behind the formed dam a big lake started to form which in October 1911 swallowed up the village Sarez; afterwards the lake was named after the village.
  • The Sarez lake was formed due to an earthquake that was estimated at 7,0 on the Richter Scale and occurred about midnight, 5–6 February 1911.
  • Lake Sarez was formed in 1911 during an earthquake, when a colossal landslide dammed the Murgab River.
  • Sarez Lake in Tajikistan has been repeatedly described by poets and prose writers as the most sinister, but at the same time, a beautiful place.
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    • Features of mountain-lake landscapes
    • Hydrogeologists worry about the fate of Lake Sarez
  • Throwing their homes, things and vegetable gardens, the surviving local residents settled in a different place, and the lake has since been called Sarez.