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Teletskoye Lake

  Lake Teletskoye is the largest lake in the mountains of southern Siberia. It is almost 80 km long, up to 5 km wide. It reaches the depth of 325 m and accumulates 40 cubic kilometers of fresh water. It is the 6th deepest lake in the world after Baikal, Issuk-Kul and some others. 

By the origin it may be considered as the early stage of tectonic basin, that, in a later stage of evolution, may evolve in a rift basin such as Baikal. But there is no still a clear conception about the time and mechanisms of the lake creation. 

The lake consists of 2 parts: northern, latitudinal (of about 28 km) and southern, longitudinal (of about 50 km). The parts differ by structure of bottom, shores, climate and other features. Average width of the lake amounts 3.2 km. 

The lake lies on the altitude of 436 m above see level and is surrounding by mountains of 600-1300 m in the northern part and about 1700-2400 m in the southern part. The average depth of the west-northern part is 10 to 40 m, and of the main lake part is 100-325 m. There is an underwater ridge in the bend of the lake. The pick of the ridge is on the depth of 93 m. 

There are quite a lot of different fishes in the lake and some of them are quite rare. 

At the end I have to say that Teletskoe lake is included into Altaisky Nature Reserve. That reserve along with Katun Natural reserve near mountain Belukha and Ukok Plateau Nature Refuge were listed as the UNESCO World Nature Heritage Sites in 1998. 

There are only 5 such sites on the territory of former USSR.
Lake Teletskoye (Altyn-Kyol) is the largest lake in the Altai mountain system and the Altai Republic, Russia. Situated at the height of 434 m above sea level, the lake stretches like an 78 km long and 5 km wide strip between the mountain ridges Korbu and Al-tyntu. Its width area is 233 km?, however, due to its considerable depth (325 m), the lake contains no less than 40 km? of fresh water. About 70 rivers and 150 temporary streams flow into the lake, the largest of them Tchulyshman River, supplying more than a half of the whole water. The lake is drained through the single outlet, the Biya River, which, after its confluence with Katun River, forms one of Siberia's largest rivers, the Ob River. 

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Teletskoye Lake is the largest and the deepest freshwater reservoir in the south of West Siberia. Among all freshwater lakes in Russia it ranks next to Lake Baikal for storage of fresh pure water. Teletskoye Lake is placed in the Teletsk Metamorphic Complex, which forms a part of an accretionary prism between the West Sayany and Altai Mountains.

Lake Teletskoye is the largest lake in the mountains of southern Siberia. It is almost 80 km long, up to 5 km wide. It reaches the depth of 325 m and accumulates 40 cubic kilometers of fresh water. It is the 6th deepest lake in the world after Baikal, Issuk-Kul and some others. 

By the origin it may be considered as the early stage of tectonic basin, that, in a later stage of evolution, may evolve in a rift basin such as Baikal. But there is no still a clear conception about the time and mechanisms of the lake creation. 

The lake consists of 2 parts: northern, latitudinal (of about 28 km) and southern, longitudinal (of about 50 km). The parts differ by structure of bottom, shores, climate and other features. Average width of the lake amounts 3.2 km. 

The lake lies on the altitude of 436 m above see level and is surrounding by mountains of 600-1300 m in the northern part and about 1700-2400 m in the southern part. The average depth of the west-northern part is 10 to 40 m, and of the main lake part is 100-325 m. There is an underwater ridge in the bend of the lake. The pick of the ridge is on the depth of 93 m. 

There are quite a lot of different fishes in the lake and some of them are quite rare. 

At the end I have to say that Teletskoe lake is included into Altaisky Nature Reserve. That reserve along with Katun Natural reserve near mountain Belukha and Ukok Plateau Nature Refuge were listed as the UNESCO World Nature Heritage Sites in 1998. 

There are only 5 such sites on the territory of former USSR.

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