What is Lake Karachay?
'''Lake Karachay''' is a small lake in the [[Ural Mountains]]. It lies in [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]], near the town of [[Ozyorsk]]. Ozyork was a closed city; the people who worked there built Russia's first [[nuclear power plant]], at [[Mayak]]. The lake was used to dump [[radioactive waste]] that resulted from operating the Mayak site, from about 1951. This waste had been dumped into the [[Techa River]] beforehand. From about 1956, it was also stored in tanks. The lake is near Mayak, which is the name of a number of nuclear facilities, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Ekaterinburg in Russia. {{geo-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Karachay, Lake}} [[Category:Lakes of Russia]] [[Category:Chelyabinsk Oblast]]