Sartlan () is an

endorheic An endorheic basin ( ; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent ...

hyposaline lake 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 ...

Novosibirsk Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative center, administrative and economic center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of N ...

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. Sartlan has a surface area of 238 km² (92 sq mi). It is the third largest lake in Novosibirsk Oblast after

Lake Chany Lake Chany (, ) is a lake in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. The lake extends across five districts of Novosibirsk Oblast: Zdvinsky, Barabinsky, Chanovsky, Kupinsky and Chistoozyorny. Geography Lake Chany is one of the largest lakes in Russia ...

and

Lake Ubinskoye Ubinskoye () is a freshwater lake located in the Baraba steppe in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, where it is divided between Ubinsky District in the west and Kargatsky District in the east. The name of the lake derives from Siberian Tatar ''ubu'', ...

. It has an average depth of about 3 m and a maximum depth of 6 m. Lake

Malye Chany Malye Chany ( – ''Little Chany'') is a lake in Kupinsky and Zdvinsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.Google Earth Chumashki village is located to the southwest of the lake and Novorozino to the north of the northern ...

lies to the southwest,

Uryum Uryum () is a lake in Zdvinsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.Google Earth Verkh-Uryum town is located by the southeastern shore of the lake. Nizhny Uryum lies by the southern shore, and Mikhaylovka (Zdvinsky District), Mikhaylo ...

to the south, and Sargul to the ESE. In 1948 and 1984, cases of

Haff disease Haff may refer to: People * Carroll Barse Haff (1892–1947), American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics *Bergljot Hobæk Haff Bergljot Hobæk Haff (1 May 1925 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian educator and no ...

were recorded near the lake. It is also known as Sartlan disease.

Gallery

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References

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