| Bolshoye Topolnoye | |
|---|---|
| Большое Топольное озеро | |
 Sentinel-2 picture of the lake | |
  Bolshoye Topolnoye  Bolshoye Topolnoye | |
| Location | West Siberian Plain |
| Coordinates | 53°19′N 77°59′E / 53.317°N 77.983°E |
| Type | endorheic |
| Primary inflows | Burla |
| Primary outflows | Burla |
| Catchment area | 10,700 square kilometers (4,100 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Max. length | 13.4 kilometers (8.3 mi) |
| Max. width | 8.2 kilometers (5.1 mi) |
| Surface area | 76.6 square kilometers (29.6 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) |
| Max. depth | 2.5 meters (8 ft 2 in) |
| Surface elevation | 99 meters (325 ft) |
| Islands | None |
Bolshoye Topolnoye (Russian: Большое Топольное озеро), meaning "big poplar", is a lake in the southern part of the West Siberian Plain, Altai Krai, south-central Russia.[1]
Its waters are slightly saline. There are no settlements by the lake. The nearest inhabited places are Petrovka and Mikhailovka.[2]
The water level of the lake is subject to variations. In snowy or rainy years, its surface area may reach 100 square kilometers (39 sq mi), but in periods of drought the lake may dry up becoming covered with grass and residual swamps. Towards the end of the nineteenth century such an extremely dry period lasted for roughly ten years, until the inflowing waters of the Burla filled the lake up again.[3]
Geography
Bolshoye Topolnoye is one of the largest lakes in Altai Krai. It has an oval shape and is located in the Kulunda Plain, Burlinsky District, at the northwestern end of the Krai. A small part of the northwestern shore belongs to the SW corner of Novosibirsk Oblast. Meanwhile, its southwestern shore is barely 0.2 kilometers (0.12 mi) to the east of the Russia/Kazakhstan border. The Burla river flows into the northeastern area of the lake. The shores of the lake are generally sloping, but there are as well marshy stretches.
Lake Bolshoy Azhbulat is located nearby in Kazakhstan, 22 kilometers (14 mi) to the west. In years of adequate rainfall the Burla river flows out of the Bolshoye Topolnoye lake from a channel in the southwestern area of the lakeshore and reaches the final stretch of its course ending in its mouth in lake Bolshoy Azhbulat. However, in dry years there is no outflow and the Burla river ends in lake Bolshoye Topolnoye.[4][5][6][2]
Fauna
Among the fish species found in the waters of the lake rudd, whitefish, bream, pike, dace, perch, sterlet, roach, carp and common bleak are worth mentioning.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Google Earth
- 1 2 "Озеро Большое Топольное". Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- 1 2 Рыбалка на озере Большое Топольное - Gotonature
- ↑ Бурла; Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
- ↑ "N-44 Topographic Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- ↑ "N-43 Topographic Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 12 July 2022.
External links
Media related to Bolshoye Topolnoye Lake at Wikimedia Commons- Peculiarities of Macrozoobenthos in Lakes of Different Mineralization of the Southern Section of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve