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Petukhovskoye (russian: Петуховское), also known as Petukhovo, is an
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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.
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 The lake is located at the western edge of the Krai, only east of the Russia-Kazakhstan border. The nearest inhabited place is
Severka Severka (russian: Северка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Seversky Selsoviet of Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,562 as of 2016. There are 16 streets. Geography Severka is loc ...
to the east of the eastern end.
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 north.


Geography

Located in the Kulunda Plain, Petukhovskoye has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from northeast to southwest for approximately . The lake dries during summers of drought, becoming a salt pan. Salt was mined in the lake in the past. The indicator minerals in the sediments of the lake are pyrite, disordered Ca- smectites, and
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, the latter being markedly predominant, especially in the lower part of the sediment section. The water has a mineralization of and a pH of 9.8. Metagenomic analyses of lake samples collected in July 2016 indicate the presence of
archaea Archaea ( ; singular archaeon ) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebac ...
belonging to the Lokiarchaeota group (MAG: ''Ca.'' Lokiarchaeota archaeon isolate CSSed165cm_327R1) among other microbes. NCBI Nucleotide
MAG: Candidatus Lokiarchaeota archaeon isolate CSSed165cm_327R1
Charlotte D. Vavourakis, Maliheh Mehrshad, Cherel Balkema, Rutger van Hall, Adrian-Ştefan Andrei, Rohit Ghai, Dimitry Y. Sorokin & Gerard Muyzer: Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake. In: ''BMC Biology'' 17, No. 69 (2019). doi:10.1186/s12915-019-0688-7, PMID 31438955, . Se
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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 ...
, near
Petukhi Petukhi (russian: Петухи) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Petukhovsky Selsoviet, Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 874 as of 2013. There are 9 streets. Geography Petukhi lies in t ...
.


Flora and fauna

The lake is surrounded by forest steppe. There are also sand dunes.Ключевский район - Алтайская краевая универсальная научная библиотека
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See also

* List of lakes of Russia


References


External links


Biota of hyperhaline lakes of the south of Western Siberia
Lakes of Altai Krai Endorheic lakes of Asia Kulunda Steppe Kazakhstan–Russia border {{AltaiKrai-geo-stub