Mozhara lake

Lake Mozharskoye is located in the Chernozemelsky district (Republic of Kalmykia), from the nearest settlement, the village of Prikumsky, to the lake - 8.5 kilometers to the northeast. Mozharskoye is a drainless body of natural origin with salt water. According to the information of the early XX century (Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron), salt was mined on the lake in the middle of the XIX century for the shops of Stavropol and for the Cossacks of the Kuban and Terek region. Industrial harvesting of edible salt was estimated at 200-300 thousand poods annually.

Lake Mozhar belongs to the West Caspian Basin District and covers an area of 4.27 kilometers. In the summer months, the lake always dries up, the main food of Mozharsky is rainwater, replenishing the reservoir mainly in spring and autumn, as well as water coming during the spring melting of snow.