The steppe is located between the
Ob and
Irtysh rivers in the southern part of the
West Siberian Plain, to the west of the
Ob Plateau. Steppe landscapes predominate, especially in the north and east of the plain, which extends across the
Altai Krai of Russia and the
Pavlodar Oblast of
Kazakhstan, with a small northern section in the
Novosibirsk Oblast, as well as small southern part in the
East Kazakhstan Oblast. The
Baraba Steppe lies to the northwest. The border between both plains is not well defined. Conventionally, it is carried out at 54 degrees north latitude. File:Кулундинская равнина Орлово Немецкий район.jpg|Kulunda Steppe in
Nemetsky National District.
Hydrology The main rivers are the
Kuchuk,
Kulunda and
Burla. There are large lakes in the central part of the Kulunda plain, such as
Lake Kuchuk,
Kulunda,
Bolshoye Topolnoye,
Ulken Azhbolat,
Ulken Tobylzhan,
Maraldy and
Bolshoye Yarovoye. Most of them are salty or briny, but some are
soda lakes, such as lakes
Borli (
Akkuly District,
Pavlodar Region),
Uyaly, Bitter (several lakes,
Mikhaylovsky district), lake Krivoe or Crooked Lake (
Uglovsky district), Gorchina 1, Gorchina 3,
Petukhovo and
Petukhovskoye,
Klyuchevskoi district), lake Zhivopisnoe or Picturesque Lake (
Mikhaylovsky district) and many others. File:Borli 2023-04-13-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg|Soda lake
Borli (
Akkuly District) File:Zhaltyr 2023-08-18-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg|Red lake
Kyzyltuz (Akkuly District) in the upper left == Notes ==