Bolshoye Shklo (russian: Большое Шкло), also known as Bolshoye Shklo-Ushkaly (russian: Большое Шкло-Ушкалы), is a
salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...
in
Kulundinsky District,
Altai Krai
Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...
,
Russian Federation.
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The lake lies at the western end of the Krai.
Konstantinovka is located by the southern lakeshore and
Kulunda, the district capital, lies to the southwest of the lake. Other inhabited places nearby are
Zlatopol, to the east,
Mirabilit, to the south,
Myshkino, to the southwest, and
Smirnenkoye to the southeast.
Geography
Bolshoye Shklo is located in a residual depression of the
Kulunda Plain. It has a roughly round shape, with a diameter of about .
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Lake Maloye Shklo lies to the SSW, Shchekulduk to the southwest, Gorkiye Kilty to the southeast, and Bolshoye Yarovoye
Bolshoye (russian: Большое) is a rural locality (a selo) in Prokhorovsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The population was 343 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.
Geography
Bolshoye is located 25 km southeast of Prokhorovka
Prokhorovk ...
to the northwest, close to the Russia-Kazakhstan border.
Flora and fauna
The lake is surrounded by flat steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
landscape, cultivated fields, and a village. '' Artemia salina'' crustaceans live in the lake and are harvested for commercial purposes.[Алтайская краевая универсальная научная библиотека - Кулундинский район](_blank)
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See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
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Соленые озераГде побывать в Алтайском крае
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe