Lake Pabra (, also , , or ; , ozero Bobrovskoe) 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 (za Bobrovskim) in 1558, озерко Лидовское (ozerko Lidovskoe) in 1585–1587, Озеро Лядво (Ozero Lyadvo) 1790, Оз. Бобровское (Oz. Bobrovskoe) and Оз. Лидовское (Oz. Lidovskoe) 1866, and Боброво оз. (Bobrovo oz.) and Лудовское озеро (Ludovskoe oz.) 1882.
The modern name 'Lake Pabra' may be derived from the Russian word бобр, бобер (bobr, bober) '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 'Lake Kossa' refers to the village of Kossa northwest of the lake, and the name 'Lake Lidva' refers to the Lidva (or Liidva) River, which flows from the lake at Bobrovo.
See also List of lakes of Estonia
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