Severka Explained

Official Name:Severka
Native Name:Северка
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Russia Altai Krai#Russia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russia
Subdivision Name1:Altai Krai
Subdivision Name3:Klyuchevsky District
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Utc Offset1:+7:00
Coordinates:52.1167°N 95°W[1]

Severka (Russian: Северка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Seversky Selsoviet of Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,562 as of 2016.[2] There are 16 streets.

Geography and Ecology

Severka is located 16 km south of Klyuchi (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novovoznesenka is the nearest rural locality.[3] Between Severka and the nearby border with Kazakhstan there is a Lake named Petokhovo (Ozero Petuhovskoe, Russian: Russian: озеро Петуховское), which is a hypersaline soda lake. Metagenomic analyses of lake samples collected in July 2016 indicate the presence of archaea belonging to the Lokiarchaeota group (MAG: Ca. Lokiarchaeota archaeon isolate CSSed165cm_327R1) among other microbes.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. https://mapdata.ru/altayskiy-kray/klyuchevskiy-rayon/selo-severka/ Карта села Северка в Алтайском крае
  2. http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2016/bul_dr/mun_obr2016.rar Численность населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2016 года
  3. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_kljuchi-3-22_severka Расстояние от Ключей до Северки
  4. [NCBI]
  5. Charlotte D. Vavourakis, Maliheh Mehrshad, Cherel Balkema, Rutger van Hall, Adrian-Ştefan Andrei, Rohit Ghai, Dimitry Y. Sorokin & Gerard Muyzer: Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake. In: BMC Biology 17, No. 69 (2019)., PMID 31438955, . See Additional File 4 (xlsx).