Lake Pabra

Lake Pabra is a lake in Estonia and Russia. It is mostly located in the village of Toodsi in Setomaa Parish, Võru County, Estonia, with a smaller part in Russia's Pechorsky District.

Physical description

The lake has an area of, and it has two islands with a combined area of. The lake has an average depth of and a maximum depth of. It is long, and its shoreline measures. It has a volume of.

Names

The lake was attested in historical sources as за Бобровскимъ in 1558, озерко Лидовское in 1585–1587, Озеро Лядво 1790, Оз. Бобровское and Оз. Лидовское 1866, and Боброво оз. and Лудовское озеро 1882.
The modern name Pabra järv 'Lake Pabra' may be derived from the Russian word бобр, бобер 'beaver' or Latgalian babrs 'beaver'; the village of was named after the lake. Bobrovo was formerly in Estonia's Petseri County; most of the area was transferred by the Soviet authorities from the Estonian SSR to Russia's Pskov Oblast in 1945. The name Kossa järv 'Lake Kossa' refers to the village of Kossa northwest of the lake, and the name Lidva järv 'Lake Lidva' refers to the Lidva River, which flows from the lake at Bobrovo.