Gorkoye (russian: 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
Yegoryevsky District
Yegoryevsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia:
* Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai, an administrative and municipal district of Altai Krai
* Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast, an administrative and ...
,
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 in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest town is
Lebyazhye, close to the eastern shore.
Rubtsovsk town lies to the east.
There is a sanatorium by the eastern lakeshore.
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Geography
Gorkoye is one of the longest lakes in Altai Krai. It lies in a wide ravine of glacial origin at the southwestern end of the Ob Plateau, near the Kulunda Plain. The lake has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from NNE to SSW for over . Lake Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye
Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye (russian: Горькое-Перешеечное) is a salt lake in Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest town is Novoyego ...
is located barely to the north and is connected with it by a short channel. Gorkoye is deeper than its northern neighbor, with a maximum depth reaching . Together, both lakes have a combined catchment area of .Malinovoye
Malinovoye (russian: Малиновое) is a salt lake in Mikhaylovsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is Malinovoye Ozero, to the sou ...
lies to the west.
See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
External links
Peculiarities of Macrozoobenthos in Lakes of Different Mineralization of the Southern Section of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Ob Plateau
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