Burlinskoye () is a

salt lake A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per liter). I ...

Slavgorod Slavgorod () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Altai Krai, Russia, located between Lake Sekachi, Lakes Sekachi and Bolshoye Yarovoye. The population of the town is It was founded in 1910 and was granted town status in 1914. ...

municipality,

Altai Krai Altai Krai (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders, clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan ( East Kazakhstan Region, Abai Region and Pavlodar Region), Novosibirsk and Kemerovo, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative ce ...

Russian Federation Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

Google Earth Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satelli ...

The lake is located at the northwestern end of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places are

Bursol Bursol () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Slavgorod, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 654 as of 2013. There are 9 streets. Geography Lake Burlinskoye lies close to the southwest of the village.Google Earth Google Earth is a web ma ...

, located by the northeastern shore, and

to the southeast. The western shore lies to the east of the

Kazakhstan–Russia border The Kazakhstan–Russia border is the international border between the Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russia, Russian Federation. It is the longest continuous international border in the world and the second longest by total length, ...

. Burlinskoye is a tourist attraction owing to the seasonal pink color of its waters.VisitAltai - Озеро Бурлинское
/ref>

History

Table salt In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as ro ...

has been mined at the lake since 1762. At the time of the

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

a small railway was built from Bursol village in the east to the middle of the lake in order to facilitate salt extraction. The rails barely rise above the lake surface. Salt mining was interrupted in 1998 but was resumed in 2010.

Geography

Burlinskoye lies in the

Kulunda Plain The Kulunda Steppe or Kulunda Plain (, , ''Qūlyndy dalasy'') is an alluvial plain in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is an important agricultural region in Western Siberia. Geography The steppe is located between the Ob and Irtysh rivers in the sout ...

, part of the

West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain () is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei, Yenisei River in the east, and the Altai Mountains on the southeast. Much of the plain is poorly d ...

. The lakeshore is flanked by steep between and high cliff-like banks in the north, west and south, but it is flat and swampy on the eastern side. The pink color of the lake is seasonal, small intermittent streams flow into the lake during the spring season, turning the water green and making the level of the lake rise.

Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panorama, interactive panoramic views of streets (Google Street View, Street View ...

Бурленское озеро
— ''

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...

:''

n 30 vols. N, or n, is the fourteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphab ...

/ Ch. ed.

A.M. Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, ; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers, in the former Soviet Union. He shared the Nobel Prize in Ph ...

. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. Lake

Bolshoye Yarovoye Bolshoye Yarovoye () is a salt lake in Altai Krai, Russian Federation. Administratively the lake falls within the limits of Slavgorod and Yarovoye municipalities, as well as Tabunsky District.Google Earth The lake is located at the northwester ...

lies to the SSE, Peschanoye to the NNE,

Bolshoye Topolnoye Bolshoye Topolnoye (), meaning "big Populus, poplar", is a lake in Burlinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth The lake lies at the northwestern end of the Krai. A small part of the northwestern shore belongs to the SW corner ...

to the northwest and

Maloye Yarovoye Maloye Yarovoye () is a salt lake in Slavgorod Municipality, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth The lake is located in the northwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places are Vladimirovka and Semyonovka, located not far fr ...

to the ESE.

Bolshoy Azhbulat Ulken Azhbolat (; , ''Bolshoy Azhbulat'') is a bittern salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. The lake lies to the NNE of Pavlodar town, north of Uspenka, the district capital, and west of Lozovoye. There are mirabilite ...

lies in

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

, to the WNW.

Flora

There are no aquatic plants in the lake.

Clubmoss Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopsids, lycopods, or lycophytes. Members of the class are also called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They have dichotomously branching stems bearing simple leaves ...

and

sedge The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as wikt:sedge, sedges. The family (biology), family is large; botanists have species description, described some 5,500 known species in about 90 ...

s, such as '' Cyperus fuscus'' and ''

Blysmus rufus ''Blysmus rufus'' is a species of sedge belonging to the family Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as wikt:sedge, sedges. The family (biology), family is large; bota ...

'' grow in some areas near the shore.Заметки по осоковым Алтайского края
/ref>

References

External links

*
Peculiarities of Macrozoobenthos in Lakes of Different Mineralization of the Southern Section of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve

Бурлинское озеро — Алтайская краевая универсальная

Exquisite photos of Siberia's candy pink lake — New East Digital Archive
Lakes of Altai Krai Endorheic lakes of Asia Kulunda Steppe Kazakhstan–Russia border {{AltaiKrai-geo-stub

History

Geography

Flora

See also

References

External links