Lake Dyupkun (Дюпкун) is a vast, isolated

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

stretching for in the southwest of the

Putorana Plateau The Putorana Plateau () or the Putorana Mountains is a mountainous area in Russia. It is a large massif or plateau crossed by mountain ranges. The nearest large settlement is Norilsk, where foreign travel is closed city#Post-Soviet, restricted. ...

in Northern

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

. The

Kureika River The Kureyka (; also ''Lyuma'', ''Numa'') is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It falls from the Putorana Plateau to the vast taiga plain of Northern Siberia and flows northward passing through a series of elonga ...

flows through the lake from south to north. It lies on marshy ground at the bottom of a valley and has an area of 199 km². The lake's left bank is the location of the

Talnikovy Waterfall The Talnikovy Waterfall () is a 700 m high seasonal waterfall in the Putorana Mountains, the northwestern part of the Central Siberian Plateau in the north of Siberia, Russia (Asia). With this height of fall from several cascades it belongs ...

, claimed to be the highest in all of

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. It is located southeast of

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Dyupkun Lake Dyupkun (Дюпкун) is a vast, isolated lake stretching for in the southwest of the Putorana Plateau in Northern Siberia. The Kureika River flows through the lake from south to north. It lies on marshy ground at the bottom of a valley and ...

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