Tenis (russian: Тенис), is a lake in the southern part of the
West Siberian Plain
The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...
,
Omsk Oblast
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, south-central
Russia
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The lake is an Important Bird Area
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IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
, especially for the Dalmatian pelican, and is part of a protected area
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.Siberian Tatar
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word for "sea".
Geography
The waters of Tenis are fresh. The western section of the lake is also known as Saltaim. Both parts are connected by an over wide sound
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In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
. The Tenis-Saltaim lake is the largest of the Krutinka Lake group.The zooplankton and the benthos of lakes Saltaim and Tenis
/ref> The Ust-Logatka and Ust-Kiterna settlements of Krutinsky District are located by the lake. The Osha
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river flows across Tenis and minor rivers such as the Karasuk, Balka-Sukhaya and Tleutsay flow into it. The shores are generally low, they are marshy in some places. Very close to the north lies a cluster of smaller lakes, including Synkul, Kalykul, Sazykul, Gorkoye and Achikul.[Water of Russia - Тенис](_blank)
(in Russian)
Fauna
Among the fish species found in the waters of the Tenis/Saltaim, crucian carp
The crucian carp (''Carassius carassius'') is a medium-sized member of the common carp family Cyprinidae. It occurs widely in northern European regions. Its name derives from the Low German ''karusse'' or ''karutze'', possibly from Medieval Lat ...
, pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
, zander, perch
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, bream and carp
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are worth mentioning.[Mukhachev IS (2018) The substantiation of the industrial pasture technology of growing commercial fish on the ecological and production potential of Saltaim Tenis Lake. International Scientific and Practical conf "Ecological readings-2018". OmGAU, Part 2, pp. 201-214]
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See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
External links
Big Krutinka LakesExponential Increase in the Abundance of the Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) in the Kurgan and Tyumen RegionsOmsk region: description, features, natural and animal world.
Bodies of water of Omsk Oblast
West Siberian Plain
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