Chagan (; ) is a salt lake in Karasuksky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia,Об утверждении перечня рыбохозяйственных водоемов местного значения Павлодарской области with a small part in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
Lake Chagan is located at the Russia-Kazakhstan border. Bogatyr town lies by the southwestern shore, in the Kazakh side, and now abandoned Pervomaysky village by the southeastern shore, in the Russian side. The latter was abolished in 2011.
Geography The lake lies in the northern part of the Kulunda Plain. The Kazakhstan–Russia border runs diagonally off the shore from northwest to southeast across the southwestern side. Most of the lake is within Russian territory.
Lake Chagan has a roughly square shape, with one large bay in the northeast and a smaller one in the northern shore.Google EarthKazakhstan National Encyclopedia / Chief editor A. Nysanbayev - Almaty " Kazakh Encyclopedia" General editor, 1998 , Volume VI
Lake Kalininskoye lies to the northeast, Studyonoye to the north, Ulken Azhbolat to the southwest, and Bolshoye Topolnoye to the southeast.
See also List of lakes of Kazakhstan List of lakes of Russia
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Успен ауданының жерлерді бөлу нобайын бекіту туралы Hydrochemical Research and Geochemical Classification of Salt Lakes in the Pavlodar Region