Malinovoye (russian: Малиновое) 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 in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is
Malinovoye Ozero, to the southeast of the southern end.
Mikhaylovskoye, the district capital, lies to the north.
Geography
Located at the western edge of the
Ob Plateau, near the
Kulunda Plain, Malinovoye has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from north to south for approximately . 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 mineralization of and with a pH of 8.4. The concentration of sodium in the water reaches . ''
Halobacterium salinarum
''Halobacterium salinarum'', formerly known as ''Halobacterium cutirubrum'' or ''Halobacterium halobium'', is an extremely halophilic marine obligate aerobic archaeon. Despite its name, this is not a bacterium, but a member of the domain Archaea ...
'' bacteria live in the lake, giving it a
pink color in certain seasons.
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Malinovoye is part of the Borovoye cluster of lakes. Lake Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye lies to the east and Sormoildy to the southwest, on the other side of the Russia-Kazakhstan border.
See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
External links
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Малиновое озеро на Алтае: нерукотворное чудо
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
Ob Plateau
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