litkova floods in the spring, but of course, these are not mountain rivers, they are more than that. the lowlands, in this area where it flowed, you can meet a beaver, you can meet a river otter and an american mink, but american minks live closer to lake lyuban, and one day when i i stood on the shore, photographed waterfowl, small ones, meaning minks, literally darting under my feet from left to right, difficult to pass. swampy places have always created certain inconveniences for people. in soviet times , a need arose for a system of drainage canals. and since then, many lands have been actively used in agriculture. most of all among these channels i like the kozatsky channel. in those days, 1866, this canal connected lake lyuban, our lake lyuban, which. located next to divin and the river bona. many years have passed, more than one century has passed, since then everything has changed. the cossack canal on the side of lake lyuban is heavily overgrown with pine forest, its banks have become completely impassable, large hummocks above the knee create such big problems when you even