Sargul () is a

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Nizhny Chulym town is located by the northeastern shore of the lake and the small village of Aleksotovo at the southern end.

Geography

Sargul lies in the

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. It belongs to the Chulym river basin, located in the southern part of the Ob-

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interfluve. The Chulym enters the lake from the northeastern side and flows out from the southwestern end. Sargul is the next-to-last of the fluvial lakes of the westward flowing Chulym before it ends at Lake

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; the last one is lake

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, which lies about further downstream. It has an hourglass shape roughly aligned from northeast to southwest..δ13С and δ15N isotope analysis of modern freshwater fish in the south of Western Siberia and its potential for palaeoreconstructions
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flows to the south. Lake Malye Chany lies to the west,

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to the NNW, and

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to the east.

References

{{Reflist Lakes of Novosibirsk Oblast West Siberian Plain

Geography

See also

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