Krivaya Puchina (russian: Кривая Пучина) 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
Klyuchevsky District
Klyuchevsky District (russian: Ключе́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #141-ZS district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Altai Krai, fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the ...
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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 at the western edge of the Krai. The
Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the southwest. The nearest inhabited places are
Novopoltava
Novopoltava (russian: Новополтава) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Novopoltavsky Selsoviet, Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 810 as of 2013. There are 9 streets.
Geography
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, located by the southern end, and
Petrovka, near the western shore.
Klyuchi
Klyuchi (russian: Ключи; lit. ''springs'') is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
* Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai, a former town in Kamchatka Oblast; since 2004 — a rural locality; since 2007 — in Kamchatka Krai
* Klyuchi, Biysky ...
, the district capital, lies to the southwest.
The Klyuchevskoye deposit of underground industrial waters is located in the area of the Krivaya Puchina and
Tolubay lakes.
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Geography
Located in the Kulunda Plain, Krivaya Puchina has an elongated shape. It stretches for approximately from north to south. The shores are indented, forming bays an peninsulas.Shukyrtuz
Shukyrtuz (russian: Шукыртуз) 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. The nearest inha ...
lies to the SSE, Petukhovo Petukhovo (russian: Петухово) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities
;Urban localities
*Petukhovo (town), Kurgan Oblast, a town in Petukhovsky District of Kurgan Obl ...
in the same direction, and Gorkiye Kilty to the north.
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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.
See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
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External links
Соленые озераГде побывать в Алтайском краеКлючевский район
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe