Kek-Usn ( Kalm. Kөk Usn is a blue lake, outdated. Keke-Usun [2] ) is a drying, drainless salt lake in the Chernozemsky district of Kalmykia . The nearest settlement is the village of Prikumsky . The surface area is 4.85 [2] km².
| Lake | |
| Kek Usn | |
|---|---|
| Calm Kөk Usn | |
| Morphometry | |
| Square | 4.85 km² |
| Location | |
| A country |
|
| The subject of the Russian Federation | Kalmykia |
| Area | Chernozemly district |
| Identifiers | |
| GVR : | |
The lake dries in the summer, feeds on melt and rain waters. The reservoir regime is artificially anthropogenic. The flow of water from the Chograisk reservoir leads to desalination of the lake [3] .
The lake is surrounded by sandy ramparts overgrown with tamarix [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 8. The North Caucasus / ed. D. D. Mordukhai-Boltovsky. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1964 .-- 309 p.
- ↑ 1 2 State Water Register . Keke-Usun . textual.ru . Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia (March 29, 2009). Date of treatment December 20, 2018. Archived March 29, 2009.
- ↑ 1 2 COTR of European Russia: Sostinskie Lakes - KL-008
Source
- Atlas of the Republic of Kalmykia, Federal State Unitary Enterprise “North Caucasian Airborne Geodetic Enterprise”, Pyatigorsk, 2010, p. 182