The Karasuk () is a river in the Karasuksky, Krasnozyorsky, Kochkovsky and Chulymsky districts,

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. It is long, with a

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of . The source region of the Karasuk River was declared a special protected area on 26 March 2007.

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The Karasuk begins some southwest of

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, at above sea level. It flows in a southwesterly direction through a wide valley in the southern part of the

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ending in the eastern shore of lake Studyonoye at . The lake is part of an

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of small lakes and swamps near the Russia-Kazakhstan border. At high water levels some water will flow through the

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(Чуман) River to the Burla (Бурла), which branches from the main river towards the south, east of the town of Karasuk. Some water may also branch off towards the north at

Nizhnecheremoshnoye Nizhnecheremoshnoye (), "Lower Cheremoshnoye", is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (''village#Russia, village'') in Krasnozyorsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of the Nizhnecheremo ...

, via the

Baganyonok The Baganyonok () is a river in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. The river is long and has a catchment area of .Google Earth The basin of the river is located in the Krasnozyorsky, Bagansky, and Karasuksky districts. Since 1994 there is a Ramsar ...

(Russian: Баганёнок) tributary, to the Bagan River. There are riverine lakes in its basin, such as Astrodym. At the river's lower reaches lies the town and railway hub of Karasuk, named after the river. Other inhabited places near the banks of the Karasuk include Kochki, Krasnaya Sibir, Chernovka, Reshety, Bukreyevo Pleso, Chernaki, Mayskoye, Mokhnaty Log, Gerbayevo, Krasnozyorskoye, Novy Baganyonok, Kaigorodsky and Studyonoye.

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* {{commons category-inline Rivers of Novosibirsk Oblast Endorheic basins of Asia

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