Lake Karachay
Lake Karachay, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mayak production association.
Mayak production association
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The Mayak Production Association is one of the largest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing production reactors and a reprocessing plant. Mayak production association is situated 3½ km northwest of Lake Karachay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Novogornyy.
Novogornyy
Village
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Novogornyy is a village, which is situated 5 km south of Lake Karachay.
Lake Karachay
- Type: Lake
- Description: former lake in the southern Ural mountains in Russia, used as a disposal site for high-radioactive waste
- Categories: former lake, radioactive waste repository, and body of water
- Location: Chelyabinsk Oblast, Urals, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Karachay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Karachay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة كاراشاي”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaraçay gölü”
- Bashkir: “Ҡарасәй (күл)”
- Bashkir: “Ҡарасәй”
- Cebuano: “Lake Karachay”
- Chinese: “卡拉恰伊湖”
- Chuvash: “Карачай”
- Croatian: “Karačajsko jezero”
- Czech: “Karačaj”
- Danish: “Karatjaj”
- Dutch: “Karatsjajmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كاراشاى”
- Esperanto: “Lago Karaĉaj”
- Estonian: “Karatšai järv”
- Finnish: “Karakhai”
- Finnish: “Karatšai”
- Finnish: “Karatshai”
- French: “Lac Karachaï”
- French: “Lac Karachay”
- French: “lac Karatchaï”
- French: “Lac Karatchaï”
- German: “Karatschai-See”
- German: “Karatschaisee”
- Hungarian: “Karacsáj-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Karachay”
- Italian: “lago Karačaj”
- Italian: “Lago Karačaj”
- Japanese: “カラチャイ湖”
- Korean: “카라차이 호수”
- Korean: “카라차이호”
- Lithuanian: “Karačiajaus ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Карачај”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karatsjaj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karatsjaj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Карачай”
- Novial: “Lago Karachay”
- Persian: “دریاچه قرهچای”
- Polish: “Karaczaj”
- Portuguese: “Lago Karachai”
- Russian: “Карачай”
- Russian: “Озеро Карачай”
- Serbian: “Jezero Karačaj”
- Serbian: “Језеро Карачај”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Karačaj”
- Slovenian: “Karačaj”
- Spanish: “Lago Karachai”
- Spanish: “Lago Karachay”
- Swedish: “Karachaysjön”
- Swedish: “Karatjajsjön”
- Turkish: “Karaçay Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Карачай”
- Venetian: “lago Karačaj”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Karachay”
- Welsh: “Llyn Karachay”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kurkachikovo and Novaya Derevnya.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stantsiya Novogornaya and Ozero Ulagach.
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