Krivaya Puchina


Krivaya Puchina is a salt lake in Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake is located at the western edge of the Krai. The Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the southwest. The nearest inhabited places are Novopoltava, located by the southern end, and Petrovka, near the western shore. Klyuchi, the district capital, lies to the southwest.
The Klyuchevskoye deposit of underground industrial waters is located in the area of the Krivaya Puchina and Tolubay lakes.

Geography

Located in the Kulunda Plain, Krivaya Puchina has an elongated shape. It stretches for approximately from north to south. The shores are indented, forming bays an peninsulas.
Lake Shukyrtuz lies to the SSE, Petukhovo in the same direction, and Gorkiye Kilty to the north.

Flora and fauna

The lake is surrounded by flat steppe landscape.