Gorkiye Kilty (russian: Горькие Кильты), also known as Gorkiye Kelty (russian: Горькие Келыты) and as Kelty Gorkoye (russian: Келыты Горькое), 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.
Google Earth
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The lake is located close to the western edge of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places are
Semyonovka located from the eastern lakeshore,
Smirnenkoye from the southwestern side, and
Ozyornoye, from the southern end.
Kulunda, the district capital, lies to the west.
Geography
Located in the
Kulunda Plain, Gorkiye Kelty has a roughly semicircular shape. It stretches approximately from northwest to southeast. The shores are bound by
salt pans in some tracts.
Lake
Shchekulduk
Shchekulduk (russian: Щекулдук), also known as Shekulduk (russian: Шекулдук) is a salt lake in Kulundinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located in the western part of the Krai. Kulunda, the ...
lies to the west,
Bolshoye Shklo-Ushkaly to the northwest,
Krivaya Puchina
Krivaya Puchina (russian: Кривая Пучина) is a salt lake in Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located at the western edge of the Krai. The Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the southwest. T ...
to the south, lake
Dzhira to the northeast, and
Kuchuk to the ENE. The
Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the WSW.
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 and cultivated fields. Among the birds found by the lake in the summer, the
long-legged buzzard and the
pied avocet deserve mention.
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See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
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External links
Соленые озераГде побывать в Алтайском крае
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe