Dorong (russian: Доронг) is a body of fresh water in the

Bauntovsky District Bauntovsky District (russian: Ба́унтовский райо́н; bua, Бабанта (Баунтын) аймаг, ''Babanta (Bauntyn) aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (raion), one of the twenty- ...

, Buryatia,

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. The name originated in an Evenki word. Dorong is a

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of Russia because of its landscapes. The valley of the lake acts as a corridor and is usually very windy.

Geography

The lake is located at the southwestern corner of the

Southern Muya Range The Southern Muya Range (russian: Южно-Муйский хребе́т, translit=Yuzhno-Muyskiy khrebet) 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 ...

, near where it merges with the

Ikat Range Ikat Range () is a mountain range in Buryatia, Russia. It runs in a parallel direction to the Baikal Rift. The range is named after two small rivers sharing the name "Ikat" which have their sources in opposite slopes of the range one is a tribu ...

. It is a deep and elongated lake, bound by steep mountains on both sides. The Dorong stretches roughly from north to south for and has a width of about which remains fairly constant along the length of the lake. The Tocha river, belonging to the

Tsipa The Tsipa (russian: Ципа) 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 w ...

basin, enters the lake from the north and flows out of it from the south. Google EarthWikimapia
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Fauna

Whitefish species are common in the waters of the lake.Morphological, ecological and mtDNA sequence variation in coregonid fish from the Baunt Lake system (the Vitim River basin)
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*{{commonscat-inline, Lake Dorong
Бурятия. Озеро Доронг.Экспедиция на оз. Доронг. Серия 5Geography of tourism in the Republic of Buryatia
Dorong ceb:Ozero Dorong

Geography

Fauna

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