Ebeyty (russian: Эбейты) 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 litre). ...

Omsk Oblast Omsk Oblast (russian: О́мская о́бласть, ''Omskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia. The oblast has an area of . Its population is 1,977,665 ( 2010 Census) with the majority, 1.1 ...

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. The

Kazakhstan–Russia border The Kazakhstan–Russia border (russian: Казахстанско-российская граница, kk, Қазақстан-Ресей шекарасы) is the international border between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation ...

lies about to the southeast of the lake. Ebeyty lies at the

tripoint A tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints as of 2020. Nearly half are situated in rivers, l ...

of Moskalensky, Poltavsky and Isilkulsky districts. The waters of the lake are reputed to have healing properties.

Geography

Ebeyty lies in the southern part of the

Ishim Plain Ishim Steppe (russian: Ишимская равнина, kk, Есіл даласы, ''Yesil dalasy'') is a plain in the southern part of Western Siberia, between the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Administratively it is part of Kurgan Oblast, Kurgan, T ...

, the southernmost sector of the

West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...

. It is a saline

endorheic lake An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the l ...

located at the bottom of a depression. In the summer the lake shrinks to an area of . Ebeyty is the largest salt lake in Omsk Oblast. Lake

Kishi-Karoy Kishi-Karoy or Kishi Karaoy, meaning "Little Karoy" ( kk, Кіші Қараой; russian: Киши-Карой), is a bittern salt lake in Akzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan–Russia border lies about to the nor ...

, of similar characteristics, lies to the SSW, on the Kazakhstan side of the border, and lake Ulzhay far to the ESE, beyond the

Irtysh The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'er ...

. The bottom of the lake is muddy. Ebeyty is mainly fed by snow. Google Earth

Flora

The Ebeyty basin lies in the transition area between forest-steppe and

steppe In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes. Steppe biomes may include: * the montane grasslands and shrublands biome * the temperate grasslan ...

vegetation. Owing to the high salinity,

halophytic A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores. ...

plant species dominate."Vegetation of the basin of Lake Ebeity" . www.omsktfi.ru, Omsk branch of the Federal State Institution "TFGI for the Siberian Federal District" of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use

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Peculiarities lake Ebeyty of salt accumulation in the Omsk region

Ecological and tourist trail on Lake Ebeyty
Lakes of Russia Endorheic lakes of Asia Omsk Oblast West Siberian Plain {{Russia-geo-stub

Geography

Flora

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