Malinovoye (lake)

Malinovoye is a salt lake in Mikhaylovsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is Malinovoye Ozero, to the southeast of the southern end. Mikhaylovskoye, the district capital, lies to the north.

Geography

Located at the western edge of the Ob Plateau, near the Kulunda Plain, Malinovoye has an elongated shape, stretching roughly from north to south for approximately. The water is saline with a mineralization of and with a pH of 8.4. The concentration of sodium in the water reaches. Halobacterium salinarum bacteria live in the lake, giving it a pink color in certain seasons.
Malinovoye is part of the Borovoye cluster of lakes. Lake Gorkoye-Peresheyechnoye lies to the east. Sormoildy lies to the southwest and Bargana to the west, on the other side of the Russia-Kazakhstan border.