The Baraba Steppe lies to the northwest. The border between both plains is not well defined. Conventionally, it is carried out at 54 degrees north latitude.[3]
Red lake Kyzyltuz (Akkuly District) in the upper left
Notes
^Lake Khilganta is a small chloride-sulfate lake; its salinity dropped from 160–250 g/L in 2011–2012 to 60 g/L in 2015 and 13 g/L in 2018.[6]
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The Tanatars soda lakes is south of the Malinovoe Ozero village, in Mikhailovsky district. The salinity in lake Tanatar-VI dropped from 160 g/L in 2011 to 34 g/L in 2022, and its alkalinity from 1.7 to 0.35 mol-eq/L in the same period, while its pH for the same period dropped only from 10 to 9.8; but salinisation rose again from 2021 on, as floodings receded.[6][5]
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Samylina, O. S.; Merkel, A. Yu.; Pimenov, N. V. (April 2023). "Diurnal Methane Dynamics in the Cyanobacterial Community of Soda Lake Bitter 1 (Kulunda Steppe, Altai Krai)". Microbiology. 92 (2): 293–299. doi:10.1134/S002626172260327X.
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Gorlenko, V. M.; Bryantseva, I. A.; Samylina, O. S.; Ashikhmin, A. A.; Sinetova, M. A.; Kostrikina, N. A.; Kozyaeva, V. V. (December 2020). "Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria in Microbial Communities of the Kulunda Steppe Soda Lakes (Altai Krai, Russia)". Microbiology. 89 (6): 697–707. doi:10.1134/S0026261720060053.
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Sapozhnikov, Philipp V.; Kalinina, Olga Yu.; Nikitin, M. A.; Samylina, Olga S. (April 2016). "Cenoses of phototrophic algae of ultrasaline lakes in the Kulunda steppe (Altai krai, Russian Federation)". Oceanology. 56 (1): 95–106. Bibcode:2016Ocgy...56...95S. doi:10.1134/S0001437016010173.