Severka
Severka (Russian: Северка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Seversky Selsoviet of Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,562 as of 2016.[2] There are 16 streets. Geography and EcologySeverka is located 16 km south of Klyuchi (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novovoznesenka is the nearest rural locality.[3] Between Severka and the Russia-Kazakhstan border there is a lake named Petukhovo or Petukhovskoye (озеро Петуховское), a hypersaline soda lake.[4] Metagenomic analyses of lake samples collected in July 2016 indicate the presence of archaea belonging to the Lokiarchaeota group (MAG: Ca. Lokiarchaeota archaeon isolate CSSed165cm_327R1) among other microbes.[5][6] References
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