Salt lake Baskunchak (20 photos)

Lake Baskunchak - a unique creation of nature and the largest salt mine - located in Achtubinskiy area the Astrakhan region in the northern part of the Caspian depression. To the Volga - fifty kilometers. The lake has an irregular shape, its length along the major axis is 18 kilometers long and varies between 6-13 kilometers, the total area - 110 square kilometers.
All-Russian "salt shaker". Stocks of salt in it, scientists say, enough to all mankind for several thousand years.