Krasnovishnevoye (russian: Красновишневое) 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). ...

Kupinsky District Kupinsky District (russian: Ку́пинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipalLaw #200-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district i ...

, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.

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The lake is located at the southwestern end of the Oblast. The nearest inhabited places are Blagoveshchenka to the north and Terengul to the east. The western lakeshore lies to the east of the Kazakhstan–Russia border.

Geography

Krasnovishnevoye lies in the

Baraba Lowland The Baraba steppe or Baraba Lowland (), is a plain in western Siberia. The Baraba Lowland is an important Russian agricultural region. Geography It stretches for across the Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts between the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers. Gra ...

, West Siberian Plain. It is part of the Kyzyltuz lake group. The lake is shallow and has a roughly triangular shape. There is one islet in the southwestern sector. Google Maps Located in an area of lakes, Krasnovishnevoye displays unusual characteristics compared to its immediate neighbors. One theory is that it is the site where a

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fell in the past. But so far no research has been carried out to establish whether there are meteorite fragments under the layer of salt and mud at the center of the lake.Миражи соленых озер — Вы когда-нибудь видели водоем ярко-розового цвета?
/ref> Krasnovishnevoye has a pink color for the most part of the year. Its water is hypersaline. Regarding

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and presence of purple bacteria there are similarities between Krasnovishnevoye and some salt lakes of the Kulunda Plain, such as

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 ...

, but its harsher water conditions restrict its biodiversity to

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and unicellular algae.Chemical and biological features of the saline Lake Krasnovishnevoye (Baraba, Russia) in comparison with Lake Malinovoe (Kulunda, Russia): a reconnaissance study
/ref> Smaller lake Gorkoye straddles the border to the west, Bolshoy Bagan lies to the northeast and Bolshoye Topolnoye to the southeast. Lake

Zharagash Zharagash ( kk, Жарағаш russian: Жарагаш) is a salt lake in Zhelezin District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. The lake lies to the east of Mayly village, about west of the Kazakhstan-Russia border, and to the WSW of Kupino, ...

is in Kazakhstan, to the north, and Bolshoy Azhbulat to the SSE.

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Озеро Красно-Вишневое. Автор: Екатерина Овдина
Lakes of Novosibirsk Oblast Endorheic lakes of Asia West Siberian Plain Kazakhstan–Russia border {{NovosibirskOblast-geo-stub

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