Karasuk River

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The 531 km long Karassuk (Russian Карасук ) is a river in the southeast of the West Siberian Lowland (Russia, Asia).

The Karassuk rises about 100 km south-west of Novosibirsk at about 190 m above sea level. NN. It flows - always on the territory of Novosibirsk Oblast - in a wide valley in a southwesterly direction through the southern part of the Barabasteppe until he loses himself in an endorheic basin with small lakes and swamps on the border with Kazakhstan (g at about 105 m above sea level. ). At high water level of the city Karassuk south part of the water flows east through the Tschuman ( Чуман ) to the river Burla ( Бурла ), another part in a northerly direction over the arm Baganjonok ( Баганёнок ) to the river Bagan ( Баган ).

The catchment area of ​​11,300 km ² comprises Karassuk. In the lower reaches, the water supply of the river takes through seepage and evaporation continuously: at last he is only about 15 m wide, 2 m deep, the flow velocity is 0.1 m / s The Karassuk has no major tributaries.

In the lower reaches of the river are city and railway junction Karassuk where the river of the Railroads Tatarskaya - Kulunda and Omsk - Barnaul ( a section of the South Siberian railway) is crossed.

Located in the forest-steppe zone headwaters of Karassuk was declared on 26 March 2007 by the Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast, Viktor Tolokonski to a particularly sensitive territory.