Bolshoy Bagan

Bolshoy Bagan or Bagan is a salt lake in Kupinsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.
The lake is located at the southwestern end of the Oblast. The nearest inhabited places are Petropavlovka to the west of the northern end, Grushevka to the ENE and Terengul to the south. The western lakeshore lies to the east of the Kazakhstan–Russia border.

Geography

Bolshoy Bagan lies in the Baraba Lowland, West Siberian Plain. It is part of the Bagan river basin. The lake is shallow and has an elongated hourglass shape roughly oriented from northwest to southeast. Attached to the south there is a small salt marsh. It is the largest of a group of scattered lakes located in a treeless, slightly swampy area, to the east of Krasnovishnevoye, west of Kuznetsovka, and south of Ivanovka.
In certain seasons Bolshoy Bagan displays an intense red color. Despite being quite close together, the lakes of the area have different characteristics and even different colors depending from the season. Smaller lake Maly Bagan lies to the southeast, Krasnovishnevoye lies to the southwest and Shulgina to the west.