{"id":806,"date":"2011-11-30T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environment\/?page_id=806"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:20:37","slug":"svetloyar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/faculty\/svetloyar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Svetloyar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2010\/06\/SvetloyarGlade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-741\" alt=\"SvetloyarGlade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2010\/06\/SvetloyarGlade-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-815\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5-134x100.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5-295x220.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/files\/2011\/11\/SvetloyarLake5.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Costlow&#8217;s research has included a trip to this legendary lake north of the Volga River.\u00a0 According to tradition, the lake hides beneath its waters the city of Kitezh &#8211; which was saved by divine intervention from raiders from the south.\u00a0 Both during the 19th century and through the Soviet era the lake was a pilgrimage site; today religious seekers and outdoor enthusiasts both find it a place of respite.\u00a0 Nearby the lake lies one of Russia&#8217;s closed conservation areas, or <em>zapovedniki<\/em>: unlike national parks, these are areas where tourists are not allowed &#8211; they are left completely alone, to provide benchmarks for scientists striving to understand ecological dynamics in sites with minimal human impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Professor Costlow&#8217;s research has included&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions\/4307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}