Lama is a freshwater lake of tectonic origin. It is located in the northwestern part of the Putorana plateau. The distance from the nearest city of Norilsk is approximately 120 km.
By area, it ranks 7th among the lakes of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and 40th among the lakes of Russia
In the language of the Tungus and Evenks, the name of Lake Lama means "sea" or "big water" The length of the lake is 82 km, the width is about 10 km. The measured depth is 254 m.
The water in the lake is absolutely fresh, although the bottom of the lake consists of a huge salt layer. Scientists still cannot solve this mystery.
There are about 20 species of fish in the clear waters of the lake, among them: char, valek, muksun, burbot, grouse, nelma, whitefish and grayling.
Esotericists consider the Lama to be a place of power and a reservoir of otherworldly energy. Ufologists are also intensively studying this place, claiming that UFOs can often be observed here. Tourists partially confirm their stories. Although there are very few tourists here because of the inaccessibility of the place.
On the shore of the lake there was a place of detention of repressed representatives of the former top political and military leadership of the Baltic states annexed to the USSR.
The Bunisyak tourist base is located at the easternmost end of the lake. The owner of which was Oleg Krashevsky, a scientist, hunter, ethnographer, traveler (died 02/20/2024). He worked for many years at the Research Institute of Agriculture of the Far North, and was also one of the initiators of the creation of the Putoransky Nature Reserve. He is the author of 16 scientific papers and three monographs
During his lifetime, he treated various ailments of Nganasan and Dolgan (indigenous inhabitants of Putoran) and made predictions about their future lives. For this, they nicknamed him the "White Shaman". On his neck is an ancient shamanic amulet of the Nganasan people.
At his base, he created a large ethno museum, which contains many unique household items of indigenous people - Evenks, Nganasan, Dolgan. Among the exhibits are shamanic clothes, various jewelry, items necessary for conducting rituals, hunting tools. Some of the collection are gifts from local residents, some were found by him during research and expeditions around the lake and its surroundings.
Oleg Krashevsky accompanied Soviet archaeologist and scientist Leonid Khlobystin on one of the expeditions. Which, as Krashevsky claimed, probably hit on the trail of an unknown ancient civilization. On the shores of the lake, they found objects whose age, according to preliminary estimates, is about three to four thousand years. He was sure that several thousand years ago the Putorana Plateau was an inhabited place. And not just inhabited, but densely populated, with its own culture and craft. What happened to the people who may have inhabited these wild places, he tried to find out throughout his life.
