Baskunchak - inexhaustible bowl

Despite the intensive extraction of salt lake resources Baskunchak immediately restored by nature. Baskunchaksky lake has a really unusual properties: even the person who had never in his life did not try to swim easily be able to stay afloat thanks to record levels of salinity of local water-about 300 grams per liter. This concentration of salt is lethal to most living organisms, usually found in lakes: the fish are simply not enough strength to resist heavy water column Baskunchak literally buoyancy to the surface. However, for the people of lifeless water of the lake are considered to be extremely useful (and often their properties compared with the properties of Dead Sea water). Swimming in the lake shown in skin diseases, circulatory disorders, metabolism and many other health problems. Salt accumulates along the edge of the shore, almost uniform in its mineral composition (99,8% NaCI), so, in fact, she is the raw material basis for the salt industry in the country: approximately 80% of oil produced in Russia, the salt is taken from the lake Baskunchak. Along the shores of the salt layer thickness is typically less than 1 - 4 m, but closer to the central part of Baskunchak can speak of a thickness of 10 - 18 m. Of particular value to this site gives a literally inexhaustible deposits of salt Baskunchaksky: quickly lost mineral reserves of natural properly restored. In the year through water keys into the lake receives about 930 thousand tons of new salt (each day of stocks increased by about 2500 tons).