Lake Sartlan (russian: Озеро Сартлан) is an
endorheic
An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...
hyposaline lake in the
Baraba steppe
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 ...
of
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, ''Novosibirskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. Sartlan has a surface area of 238 km
2 (92 sq mi). It is the third largest lake in Novosibirsk Oblast after
Lake Chany
Lake Chany (russian: озеро Чаны) is a lake in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.
The lake extends across five districts of Novosibirsk Oblast: Zdvinsky, Barabinsky, Chanovsky, Kupinsky and Chistoozyorny.
Geography
Lake Chany is one of t ...
and
Lake Ubinskoye
Lake Ubinskoye (russian: Убинское озеро) is a freshwater lake located in the Baraba steppe in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, where it is divided between Ubinsky District in the west and Kargatsky District in the east. The name of the l ...
. It has an average depth of about 3 m and a maximum depth of 6 m.
In 1948 and 1984, cases of
Haff disease
Haff disease is the development of rhabdomyolysis (swelling and breakdown of skeletal muscle, with a risk of acute kidney failure) within 24 hours of ingesting fish.
History
The disease was first described in 1924 in the vicinity of Königsberg, ...
were recorded near the lake. It is also known as Sartlan disease.
Gallery
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References
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