Gorkiye Kilty

Gorkiye Kilty, also known as Gorkiye Kelty and as Kelty Gorkoye, is a salt lake in Kulundinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake is located close to the western edge of the Krai. The nearest inhabited places are Semyonovka located from the eastern lakeshore, Smirnenkoye from the southwestern side, and Ozyornoye, from the southern end. Kulunda, the district capital, lies to the west.

Geography

Located in the Kulunda Plain, Gorkiye Kelty has a roughly semicircular shape. It stretches approximately from northwest to southeast. The shores are bound by salt pans in some tracts.
Lake Shchekulduk lies to the west, Bolshoye Shklo-Ushkaly to the northwest, Krivaya Puchina to the south, lake Dzhira to the northeast, and Kuchuk to the ENE. The Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the WSW.

Flora and fauna

The lake is surrounded by flat steppe landscape and cultivated fields. Among the birds found by the lake in the summer, the long-legged buzzard and the pied avocet deserve mention.