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Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia.Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).
Lake Cheybek-Kohl (Russian: Чейбеккёль, Altay: Чӧйбӧк-Кӧл, Çöybök-Köl, literally: "Long Lake") (or Dead lake) is in Altai Mountains and the Altai Republic, Russia. It is located in the upper reaches of the Chibit River, at elevation 1816 m. The lake is a natural phenomenon — it was formed by the damming of the river.
The Kyshtym disaster, (Russian: Кыштымская авария), sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the ...
The lake sits in western Russia near the border of Kazakhstan. Nearby is Mayak, formerly known as Chelyabinsk one of the country's largest nuclear production sites. See more in the gallery below:
The lake is blue, however, due to a chemical reaction between toxic waste elements from a local power station. Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation Skip to main content
Lake Baikal [a] is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia , Russia between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast.
View of Lake Seliger near Ostashkov in 1910. List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: Achchyon (Аччён) Akush (Акуш) Arakhley (Арахле́й)
Ognenny Ostrov (Russian: Огненный остров, literally: Fire Island) is a small lake island in the central Russian Vologda region.It hosts a high security prison ("Correctional colony No. 5 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Administration for the Vologda Region") for formerly condemned and other dangerous inmates called Vologodskiy Pyatak or simply Pyatak (Russian ...