Malinovoye () is a salt lake in Mikhaylovsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth

The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is Malinovoye Ozero, to the southeast of the southern end. Mikhaylovskoye, the district capital, lies to the north.

Geography Located at the western edge of the Ob Plateau, near the Kulunda Plain, Malinovoye has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from north to south for approximately . The water is saline with a mineralization of and with a pH of 8.4. The concentration of sodium in the water reaches . Halobacterium salinarum bacteria live in the lake, giving it a pink color in certain seasons.The multicolored Russian lakes

Malinovoye is part of the Borovoye cluster of lakes. Lake Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye lies to the east. Sormoildy lies to the southwest and Bargana to the west, on the other side of the Russia-Kazakhstan border.

See also List of lakes of Russia

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Малиновое озеро на Алтае: нерукотворное чудо Effect of salinity on diazotrophic activity and microbial composition of phototrophic communities from Bitter-1 soda lake (Kulunda Steppe, Russia)