Lake Suturuokha () is a freshwater lake in the

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. It lies in the middle course area of the Indigirka River, to the west of it.State Water Register- Lake Suturuokha
/ref> Administratively the lake is part of Aby District ''(Aby Ulus)''

Geography

The lake is located in the Aby Lowland —part of the wider

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, by the southeastern slopes of the Polousny Range,

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a short distance to the west of

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Suturuokha __NOTOC__ Suturuokha (russian: Сутуруоха; sah, Сутуруоха) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Urasalakhsky Rural Okrug of Abyysky District in the Sakha Republic, Ru ...

village lies to the southeast of the lake. It is one of the three largest lakes of the 15,000 Aby Lakes. There is an island formed by stones in the central area of the lake which has become a nesting site for birds.Visit Yakutia - Suturuokha Lake
/ref> Lake Suturuokha has an average depth of and a maximum depth of . The lake is frozen between late September and June. The Suturuokha River, a right hand tributary of the

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, flows from the southern shore of the lake.

References

External links

Suturuokha Lake - Lakes of RussiaFishing in Lake Suturuokha - YouTubeLake EcosystemGeographical places in Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia

East Siberian Lowland {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

Geography

See also

References

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