Gorkoye () is a salt lake in Romanovsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake lies roughly in the middle of the Krai. The nearest towns are Kazantsevo close to the northern lakeshore and Guseletovo near the southern end.
Geography Gorkoye is an endorheic lake that lies close to the northern edge of one of the wide ravines of glacial origin cutting diagonally across the Ob Plateau. The lake has an hourglass shape, stretching roughly from northeast to southwest for over . It has a very narrow middle section that almost divides the lake in two, with a northern part that is smaller than the southern one. The lake water is saline and the shores are flat.Water of Russia - Горькое озеро
The northern shore of lake Gorkoye (Chernokurynskoye) is located to the southeast and lake Bolshoye Ostrovnoye to the northeast. Lake Mostovoye lies to the northwest and Lake Kuchuk to the WNW.
See also List of lakes of Russia
References
External links Peculiarities of Macrozoobenthos in Lakes of Different Mineralization of the Southern Section of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve