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Maloye Yarovoye (Russian: Малое Яровое, lit. 'Little Yarovoye') is a salt lake in Slavgorod Municipality, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake is located in the northwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places are Vladimirovka and Semyonovka, located not far from the northwestern shore. Slavgorod lies 28 kilometers (17 mi) to the west. The lake is a protected area.




Geography


Located in the Kulunda Plain, part of the West Siberian Plain, Maloye Yarovoye has a roughly circular shape with a diameter of about 7 kilometers (4.3 mi). The lakeshore is steep, sloping down from heights between 3 meters (9.8 ft) and 5 meters (16 ft). The water is saline and the lake bottom has layers of sand and silt.
Lake Kulunda lies 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) to the east, Belenkoye (Tabunsky District) 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) to the southeast, Belenkoye (Slavgorod Municipality) 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) to the east, Bolshoye Yarovoye 31 kilometers (19 mi) to the WSW and Burlinskoye 43 kilometers (27 mi) to the WNW.




Flora and fauna


Maloye Yarovoye is surrounded by steppe vegetation. There are no fish in the lake, its only aquatic fauna is the small crustacean Artemia salina.




See also


List of lakes of Russia




References






External links


Media related to Maloye Yarovoye at Wikimedia Commons
Озеро Малое Яровое
Peculiarities of Macrozoobenthos in Lakes of Different Mineralization of the Southern Section of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve

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• Maloye Yarovoye
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• List of lakes of Russia
• Burlinskoye
• Yarovoy
• Lake Kulunda
• Slavgorod
• Belenkoye (lake, Tabunsky District)
• Belenkoye (lake, Slavgorod Municipality)
• Georgiyevka, Tabunsky District, Altai Krai