Inder () is a

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in Dovolensky District,

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The lake lies in the southern sector of the Oblast. Inder village is located a little north of the northern shore and Dovolnoye town, the district capital, to the west of the western shore.

Geography

Inder lies in the

Baraba Steppe The Baraba steppe or Baraba Lowland (), is a plain in western Siberia. It is named after Baraba Tatars, its indigenous inhabitants. The Baraba Lowland is an important Russian agricultural region. Geography It stretches for across the Omsk a ...

, part of the

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. The

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river flows through the lake entering it from the northeast and flowing out of it from the western end. The western half of the lake is shallow and swampy, encumbered by aquatic vegetation. There are also a few large islands. Counting the marshy areas in the west and in the south the lake is long and wide. Lake

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lies to the west, and Itkul to the northeast.

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Озеро Индерь
/ref> Озера Карасукского района Новосибирской области и их рыбохозяйственное освоение
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Flora and fauna

Reeds and

sphagnum ''Sphagnum'' is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). Accumulations of ''Sphagnum'' can store water, since ...

grow by the lakeshore. Cultivated fields, some of them abandoned, surround the lake. There are as well some areas of

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 ...

vegetation with

sedges The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 generathe largest being the "true sedges" (genu ...

and grasses. The lake is an important

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for birds. It is part of the Indersky Ryam, a wetland site, where several waterfowl, including the

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, have been recorded nesting. 12 species of birds in the lake area are rare and endangered.Индерский рям
/ref> The fish species in lake Inder include sig,

crucian carp The crucian carp (''Carassius carassius'') is a medium-sized member of the common carp family Cyprinidae. It occurs widely in northern European regions. Its name derives from the Low German ''karusse'' or ''karutze'', possibly from Medieval Lat ...

and

Eurasian carp The common carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), also known as European carp, Eurasian carp, or simply carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Ark ...

. Peled were released in the lake years ago.

References

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Индерский рям — Новосибирская область
Lakes of Novosibirsk Oblast Endorheic lakes of Asia Baraba Steppe

Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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