Lake Kulundinskoye

Salt lake ( sodium sulfate)

The Kulundasee (Russian Кулундинское озеро / Kulundinskoje Ozero ) is a salt lake in the southeast of the West Siberian Lowland ( Altai Krai, Russia, Asia).

He is in a endorheic basin in the Kulunda steppes and is 728 km ². The mirror of Kulundasees is 98 m in height, with a maximum water depth of only 4 meters. The north-south expansion is about 35 kilometers the east-west 25 km. Northern and western shores are steep, the eastern shore, however, flat and marshy.

From the East also end the only significant inflows that Kulunda and Sujetka, into the lake. Addition occurs in the vicinity of the lake a number of productive artesian springs to light. In the south of the lake has a narrow connection to something deeper, 6 kilometers away Kutschuksee ( Кучукское озеро / Kutschukskoje Ozero ).

Because of its salt content (sodium sulfate), the lake does not freeze in winter.

Southeast of the lake lie the settlements of urban type Blagoweschtschenka ( administrative center of the homonymous Rajons, with Nowoblagoweschtschenka station at the south of the lake by leading railway Barnaul - Kulunda - Pavlodar ) and Stepnoje Ozero. The non- salty areas around the Kulundasee be used intensively for agriculture.