Salt Lake
Description:
The basin of the lake has an oval shape. The height above sea level is 10 meters, and the total area is 34 square kilometers. The bottom of the lake is flat. It is covered by a powerful layer of silt (up to 9 meters), the upper part of which, up to 10 centimeters thick, has healing properties. The depth of the reservoir during the period of greatest filling reaches a maximum of 60 centimeters. The salt lake is fed by rain and groundwater.
Black therapeutic muds are located closer to the central part of the reservoir, and steel-gray clays are developed along its banks. Samples of mud, brine and mud solutions taken in the center and near the shores of the lake showed the suitability of the mud for therapeutic use.
The animal world of the reserve is represented by amphibians, reptiles. The lake is in the path of migratory birds. From mammals in the basin of the lake live insectivores and rodents. In the water lives a relic of the Sarmat Sea - a small gill-footed crustacean "Artemia salina".