Busani () is the name of a body of fresh water in the

Bauntovsky District Bauntovsky District (; , ''Babanta (Bauntyn) aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The a ...

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. The name originated in the Evenki language, meaning "where people drown".Бусани. Забытый остров
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s on the southeastern shore of lake Busani. It was declared a

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of Russia on 25 July 1988.

Geography

Busani is one of the major lakes of the

Baunt Depression Baunt (; , ''Baunt nuur'') is the name of a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The village of Kurort Baunt, where there are some hot springs, is located on the southwestern shore of the lake, at the foot of Mt B ...

, below the southern foothills of the

Southern Muya Range The Southern Muya Range () is a mountain range in Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands. The highest point of the range is 3,067 m high Muisky Gigant; another important peak is 2363 m high Mount Shaman. Google Earth ...

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:'' in 30 vols. / Ch. ed.

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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The lake area belongs to the "Tsipo-Tsipikansky" (Ципо-Ципиканских) lake group —named after rivers

Tsipa The Tsipa () is the largest tributary of the Vitim in Buryatia, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Maksim Perfilyev was the first Russian to reach the Tsipa in 1640. Perch, pike, lenok, grayling, taimen and whitefish are also ...

and Tsipikan, which is also known as Bauntovsky (Баунтовских) —after neighboring lake

Baunt Baunt (; , ''Baunt nuur'') is the name of a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The village of Kurort Baunt, where there are some hot springs, is located on the southwestern shore of the lake, at the foot of Mt Bol ...

.Catalog of lakes - Busani
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Vitim Plateau Vitim Plateau is a plateau in Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The plateau is sparsely populated; the main settlements are Romanovka, Republic of Buryatia, Romanovka and Bagdarin. An area of the plateau is an ancient volcanic field with a ...

, east of lake Baunt. It is a triangular-shaped lake, crossed by the Mogoi river, which connects it with river

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On the southwestern coast there is a

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. The middle of the lake has a section stretching from north to south of irregular-shaped islands and peninsulas with deeply indented shorelines. The village of

Busani Busani () is the name of a body of fresh water in the Bauntovsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The name originated in the Evenki language, meaning "where people drown". There are spectacular rock formations on the southeastern shore of lake Bu ...

is located in that area.

Flora and fauna

The bottom of the lake is covered with dense aquatic plant growth.

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rise above the surface in the warm season. The hills surrounding the lake, as well as the islands, are covered with

Dahurian larch ''Larix gmelinii'', the Dahurian larch or East Siberian larch, is a species of larch native to eastern Siberia and adjacent northeastern Mongolia, northeastern China (Heilongjiang), South Korea and North Korea. Description ''Larix gmelinii'' ...

, Dahurian rhododendron and

dwarf cedar ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...

. The lake is rich in fish species, such as

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grayling Grayling or Greyling may refer to: Animals Fish * Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae ** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the type species of the genus ''Thymallus'' ** Arctic grayling ( ...

and

Arctic char The Arctic char or Arctic charr (''Salvelinus alpinus'') is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic realm, Holarctic. Distribution and habitat It Spaw ...

.Morphological, ecological and mtDNA sequence variation in coregonid fish from the Baunt Lake system (the Vitim River basin)
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References

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Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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