Zyuratkul (; ba, Йөрәккүл) is a freshwater lake in Satkinsky District,

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.State Water Register - Озеро Зюрат-Куль
/ref> The name "Zyuratkul" comes from the Bashkir ''"yöräk/kul"'' (йөрәк/күл), meaning "heart/lake".Энциклопедия «От Парижа до Берлина по карте Челябинской области» (топонимика Челябинской области) Зюрат-Куль.
/ref> In 1993 the

Zyuratkul National Park Zyuratkul National Park (russian: Зюраткуль (национальный парк)) is a Russian national park established in 1993 in the southern part of Satkinsky Raion (Chelyabinsk Oblast, Urals). The park lies about 30 km south o ...

, a

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, was established in the lake and its surroundings.

Geography

The lake lies at above mean

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, being one of the highest lakes of the

Southern Urals Southern Ural - the south, the widest part of the Ural Mountains, stretches from the river Ufa (near the village of Lower Ufaley) to the Ural River. From the west and east the Southern Ural is limited to the East European, West Siberian Plain and ...

. It is located about to the south of the small mountain range named after it. Its southern shore stretches at the feet of the northern slopes of the larger Nurgush range.Челябинская область: Энциклопедия / гл.ред. К. Н. Бочкарёв. Ч.: Каменный пояс, 2008 Previously, in its natural state, the lake was smaller and surrounded by swamps. After

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a dam was built and the new reservoir doubled the surface area of the ancient lake.Nash-Ural - Озеро Зюраткуль
/ref> The water of Zyuratkul is not as clear as is normal in high-altitude lakes. The reason is that the inflowing watercourses originate in swamps. The Bolshaya Satka, a left hand tributary of the Ay, is the outflow of the lake.

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Lake Zyuratkul pictures

Путешествия по России 35 самых красивых мест, которые должен увидеть каждый
(35 most beautiful spots in Russia) Zyuratkul Reservoirs in Russia {{ChelyabinskOblast-geo-stub

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