Kulunda Main Canal

The canal begins close to Kamen-na-Obi and runs first southwards; shortly thereafter it heads in a southeast direction then it bends and runs in a roughly southwest direction. It passes through the Kamensky, Tyumentsevsky, Bayevsky, Blagoveshchensky and Rodinsky districts. The total length of the canal is with a capacity of and two pumping stations. The main pumping station is in Kamen-na-Obi and it pumps the water of the Ob river at an elevation of to the edge of the Ob Plateau at an elevation of . The secondary one is further south in Klyuchi village, Tyumentsevsky District. The canal ends at the Kuchuk river close to Novotroitsk. A extension reaching Zlatopol was projected, but never carried out. ==History==

Construction of the canal began in August 1973, at the time of the USSR. The project had been put forward at the beginning of the decade and aimed to irrigate in the area of Novotroitsk, as well as Zlatopol, located further west near the Kazakhstan–Russia border. Besides, it was expected that the canal would also benefit of agricultural fields and around of pastureland in the areas located by the eastern section of the canal. ==Ecological impact==

The Kulunda Main Canal runs roughly in a NE/SW direction only to the east of lake Gorkoye, a long salt lake. The building of the canal disrupted the Gorkoye ecosystem by increasing the salinity of the lake and some fish species died out. ==References==