Gornostalevo (russian: Горносталево), also known as Gornostalevoye (russian: Горносталевое), 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
Mikhaylovsky District, Altai Krai
Mikhaylovsky District (russian: Миха́йловский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #48-ZS district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai. The area ...
,
Russian Federation.
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The lake is located at the western edge of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is
Nevodnoye, to the north of the northern end.
Mikhaylovskoye, the district capital, lies to the ESE.
History
Salt from the lake has been extracted on a small scale since 1772. The mud of Gornostalevo has been used by local people for medicinal purposes since old times. The lake first appeared on a map in 1830.
Gornostalevo was finally surveyed by
Irkutsk University
Irkutsk State University (russian: Ирку́тский госуда́рственный университе́т) was founded in October 1918 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Nowadays Irkutsk State University is a large scientific and educational instituti ...
scholar (1880—1950) during his 1911 exploration of the Kulunda Steppe lakes on behalf of V.P. Mikhailov, the head of the . The results of the survey were published in the document ''“Salt Lakes and Salt Industry in the Altai District”''.
About Gornostalevo Mirotvortsev observed:
Geography
Located in the
Kulunda Plain, Gornostalevo has a roughly triangular shape, stretching roughly from north to south for approximately .The southwestern corner of the lake is only to the east of the
Russia-Kazakhstan border. The water is
saline
Saline may refer to:
* Saline (medicine), a liquid with salt content to match the human body
* Saline water, non-medicinal salt water
* Saline, a historical term (especially US) for a salt works or saltern
Places
* Saline, Calvados, a commune in ...
with a 99.693% of
sodium chloride
Sodium chloride , commonly known as salt (although sea salt also contains other chemical salts), is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chloride ions. With molar masses of 22.99 and 35.45 g ...
, 0.195% of
sodium sulphate,
and 0.0005% of
magnesium sulphate.
Lake
Petukhovskoye lies to the north,
pink lake Malinovoye to the southeast,
Dunay to the ENE,
Kurichye to the NNE and
Bargana to the southwest, beyond the border in Kazakhstan.
Flora and fauna
The lake is surrounded by
forest steppe.
''
Artemia salina
''Artemia salina'' is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to ''Triops'' and cladocerans than to true shrimp. It belongs to a lineage that does not appear to have changed much in .
''A. salina'' is nati ...
'' crustaceans inhabit the waters of lake Gornostalevo. These are harvested and sold by locals.
Браконьерская артемия ждет возвращения домой
/ref>[Макарова Маргарита, ''Озеро Горносталево.'' Первое сентября]
See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
External links
*
Effect of salinity on diazotrophic activity and microbial composition of phototrophic communities from Bitter-1 soda lake (Kulunda Steppe, Russia)
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe
Kazakhstan–Russia border
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