Shchekulduk
Shchekulduk, also known as Shekulduk is a salt lake in Kulundinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake is located in the western part of the Krai. Kulunda, the district capital, lies just from the northeastern shore of the lake. Other inhabited places nearby are Estlan, to the southwest, Novopetrovka, to the east, and Oktyabrsky to the north.
The name of the lake is of Kazakh origin.
Geography
Shchekulduk is located in a residual depression of the Kulunda Plain. It has a roughly polygonal shape, with a length of almost from west to east. The lakeshore has a small peninsula on the northeastern side that forms a small bay named Bukhta Udachi where there is tourism infrastructure for visitors.Lake Kirey lies to the ESE, Bolshoye Shklo to the northeast, Gorkiye Kilty to the east, and Bura to the northwest, at the Russia-Kazakhstan border.