Aqtas Lake or Aktashskoye ( crh, Aqtaş gölü, russian: Акта́шское о́зеро) is a drying salt lake at the

Kerch peninsula The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic peninsula located at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. This peninsula stretches eastward toward the Taman peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Most of the ...

in the

Lenine Raion Lenine Raion (russian: Ленинский район, uk, Ленінський район, crh, Yedi Quyu rayonı) is one of the 25 regions of the Crimea, Russia. It is located in the eastern part of the peninsula. The population of the distric ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. The lake belongs to the Kerch group of lakes.Information at the regional committee on water management and land improvement
Its name means ''White Mount''. Its water supplies it receives from the

Black Sea Littoral Artesian Aquifer Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have ...

. Lake is connected with the

North Crimean Canal The North Crimean Canal ( uk, Північно-Кримський канал, translit=Pivnichno-Krymskyi kanal, russian: Северо-Крымский канал, in the Soviet Union: North Crimean Canal of the Lenin's Komsomol of Ukraine) is a l ...

and through another canal with the

Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov ( Crimean Tatar: ''Azaq deñizi''; russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; uk, Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, ...

. Around 1980, the lake was intended to serve as a

cooling pond A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of cooling heated water and/or to store and supply cooling water to a nearby power plant or industrial facility such as a petroleum refinery, pulp and paper mill, chemica ...

for industrial water supply of the Crimean Nuclear Power Station. In the middle of the lake there is an island of Latau. There are also

solonchak Solonchak (Russian and Ukrainian: Солончак) is a Reference Soil Group of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). It is a pale or grey soil type found in arid to subhumid, poorly drained conditions. The word is Russian for "sal ...

s. In the vicinity of Aqtas Lake there are the Astani Floodplains and the East Crimean Wind Power Station.

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