Malinovoye () is a

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The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is Malinovoye Ozero, to the southeast of the southern end. Mikhaylovskoye, the district capital, lies to the north.

Geography

Located at the western edge of the

Ob Plateau The Ob Plateau (, ''Priobskoye Plato''), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it falls within Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberian Federal District, Russia. The plateau is named after the Ob River and is part of its ba ...

, near 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 ...

, Malinovoye has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from north to south for approximately . The water is

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with a mineralization of and with a pH of 8.4. The concentration of sodium in the water reaches . ''

Halobacterium salinarum ''Halobacterium salinarum'', formerly known as ''Halobacterium cutirubrum'' or ''Halobacterium halobium'', is an extremely halophile, halophilic ocean, marine obligate aerobic archaeon. Despite its name, this is not a bacteria, bacterium, but a mem ...

'' bacteria live in the lake, giving it a pink color in certain seasons.The multicolored Russian lakes
/ref> Malinovoye is part of the Borovoye cluster of lakes. Lake Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye lies to the east. Sormoildy lies to the southwest and

Bargana Bargana (; ) is a salt lake in Akkuly District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. Bargana lake is located west of the Russia-Kazakhstan border, to the southwest of Shoktal village and east of Maykaragay. Akkuly, the district capital, lies roug ...

to the west, on the other side of the Russia-Kazakhstan border.

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Малиновое озеро на Алтае: нерукотворное чудо

Effect of salinity on diazotrophic activity and microbial composition of phototrophic communities from Bitter-1 soda lake (Kulunda Steppe, Russia)
Lakes of Altai Krai Endorheic lakes of Asia Ob Plateau {{AltaiKrai-geo-stub

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