Soluntakh (; , ''Soluntax'') is a freshwater lake in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

(Yakutia),

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.Солунтах - Water of Russia
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Allaikhovsky District Allaikhovsky District (; , ''Allayıaxa uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is ...

. The region where Soluntakh lies is uninhabited. Like most bodies of water in the area in has not been studied enough. A sector of the lake is a

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

Geography

Soluntakh lake is located north of the

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, in the central part of the

Yana-Indigirka Lowland The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (; ) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). There are inhabited ...

. It is crossed from west to east by the long

Kyuyol-Yuryakh The Kyuyol-Yuryakh (; , ''Küöl-ürex'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, across territories of the East Siberian Lowland in Allaik ...

river, which enters its western shore roughly in the middle. All other inflowing rivers are small. There are many smaller lakes in the vicinity. The lake begins to freeze in mid September and stays under ice until early June.

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Fauna

The

greater white-fronted goose The greater white-fronted goose (''Anser albifrons'') is a species of goose, closely related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (''A. erythropus''). The greater white-fronted goose is Bird migration, migratory, breeding in northern Cana ...

and

bean goose The bean goose is a species complex of goose that breeds in northern Europe and Palearctic, Eurosiberia. It has at least two distinct varieties, one inhabiting taiga habitats and one inhabiting tundra. These are recognised as separate species by ...

are some of the bird species known to nest in the lake. Soluntakh has also been explored as one of the probable sites providing a habitat for the

Siberian crane The Siberian crane (''Leucogeranus leucogeranus''), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the crane (bird), cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes: adults are nearly all White, snowy whi ...

, a

critically endangered An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...

species. Lake Soluntakh is rich in fish.Рыбы северо-востока Яно-Индигирской низменности (на примере бассейна р. Хромы как северной экосистемы в условиях антропогенного воздействия)
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Fishing & Tourism in YakutiaРыбалка в Якутии
Lakes of the Sakha Republic East Siberian Lowland Drainage basins of the East Siberian Sea {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

Geography

Fauna

See also

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