Belenkoye (lake, Slavgorod Municipality)

Belenkoye () is a salt lake in Slavgorod Municipality, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth

The lake lies at the western end of the Krai. Danilovka is located to the north and Novovoznesenka to the northwest. Slavgorod, the head of the municipality, lies to the WSW of the lake.Славгородский район - Алтайская краевая универсальная научная библиотека

History Founded in 1910, Paraskovyevka () was a farming settlement located to the southwest of the Belenkoye lakeshore. It is known that in 1928 the village had a population of 297 people (164 men and 133 women) and that most of them were of Ukrainian origin. However, official data regarding the subsequent abolition of the settlement and the fate of its inhabitants are lacking.List of populated areas of the Siberian region. – Volume 1. Districts of Southwest Siberia. – Novosibirsk: Siberian Regional Executive Committee. Statistical Department, 1928. – 831 p.

Nowadays the ruins of the houses of Paraskovyevka and other vestiges of former habitation, can still be seen, but the circumstances in which the village was abandoned remain a mystery.По Славгородскому району — LiveJournal

Geography Belenkoye is located in a residual depression of the Kulunda Plain. It has an oval shape, roughly oriented from WNW to ESE, with a length of less than .

Lake Maloye Yarovoye lies to the WSW and Belenkoye (Tabunsky District) in the same direction. Lake Kulunda lies only to the east.

Flora and fauna The lake is surrounded by flat steppe landscape, salt pans and cultivated fields. Artemia salina crustaceans live in the lake and are periodically harvested for commercial purposes.Productivity of Artemy Populations of Small Lakes of the Closed Flow Region of the Ob-Irtysh Interfluve

Belenkoye (lake, Slavgorod Municipality)

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