Lake Tschanysee

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Lake Tschanysee
Chany lake.jpg
Lake Tschany from space (1994)
Geographical location Novosibirsk Oblast (Russia)
Drain drainless
Data
Coordinates 54 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 54 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Lake Chany (Novosibirsk Oblast)
Lake Tschanysee
Altitude above sea level 106  m
surface 1990–2600 km²dep1
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The Tschanysee ( Russian Чаны ) is an outflow-free lake in the Barabasteppe in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands in Russia .

The lake is located in the west of Novosibirsk Oblast at an altitude of about 106  m . The water level of the lake fluctuates from year to year and seasonally by around three meters. This changes its area between 1990 and 2600 km² (as of the early 1970s). The mean depth is 2.2 meters, the maximum ten meters.

The shores of Lake Tschany are strongly indented. There are a large number of islands in the northeast-southwest extending and only a few meters above the water surface of the lake. A seven-kilometer arm ( Koschurla ) connects the lake in the southwest with the small Tschanysee (Russian Малые Чаны / Malyje Tschany ), which is almost 200 km² in size .

A large part of the amount of water is supplied to the lake during the melting of the snow, among other things by the main tributary Tschulym, which flows into the Small Tschanysee, and its tributary Kargat . The lake freezes between the second half of October and the first half of November and May.

The western part of the lake was separated in 1972 by connecting a number of islands with artificial dams. As a result, the western part practically dried up, so that the lake area is only 1700 km² today.

The Tschanysee is an internationally significant wetland area designated according to the Ramsar Convention as a habitat and passage area for water birds. The brackish lake (salinity 0.8 to locally six g / l) is also used for inland fishing ( Siberian roach , pike , perch , crucian carp , carp ).

A settlement and a train station on the Trans-Siberian Railway , which runs about 40 kilometers to the north, were named Tschany after the lake .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Tschanysee in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D121467~2a%3D~2b%3DTschanysee

Web links

Commons : Tschanysee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Chany lake system on the website of the Russian Nature Conservation Center (Russian)
  • Lake Chany on the website of the Chany Raion of Novosibirsk Oblast (Russian)