Dzhira (), Zhira () or Dzhiry (),
[Кулунда: сельское хозяйство и низкоэмиссионные технологии устойчивого землепользования](_blank)
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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 ...
in Kulundinsky District
Kulundinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #66-ZS district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the r ...
, 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
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.Google Earth
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gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate Hydrate, dihydrate, with the chemical formula . It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, drywall and blackboard or sidewalk ...
deposits at the lake estimated at about . The gypsum is of good quality, not containing harmful impurities and not caking during storage. 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 ...
the Ministry of the Medical Industry built a plant on the shore of lake Dzhira for the extraction of raw gypsum. The project was, however, abandoned. The plant never began to operate and was subsequently mothballed and destroyed.
Geography
Dzhira is located in a residual depression of 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 ...
. It is one of the largest lakes in the district, with a length of stretching from north to south. The lakeshore is fringed by salt pans, especially on the eastern side. A fairly large lone island in the middle part of the lake is across.[State Water Register of the Russian Federation](_blank)
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Gorkiye Kilty (), also known as Gorkiye Kelty () and as Kelty Gorkoye (), is a salt lake in Kulundinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located close to the western edge of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places ...
lies to the southwest, Bauzhansor to the north, Kuchuk to the east, Kulunda to the northeast, and Bolshoye Shklo to the west.
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Flora and fauna
The lake is surrounded by flat steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the tropical and subtropica ...
landscape and cultivated fields.[Алтайская краевая универсальная научная библиотека - Кулундинский район](_blank)
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See also
*List of lakes of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order:
* Achchyon (Аччён)
* Akush (Акуш)
* Arakhley (Арахле́й)
* Astrodym (Астродым)
* Baikal (Байкал)
* Bakhmatovskoye (Бахматовское)
* Baunt (Баунт)
* Ba ...
References
External links
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Соленые озераГде побывать в Алтайском краеFirst record of Coniatus splendidulus (Fabricius, 1781) - Research Gate
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe