Severka

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.

Severka Северка
Village
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Coordinates: 52°07′N 79°16′E[1]
Country	Russia
Region	Altai Krai
District	Klyuchevsky District
Time zone	UTC+7:00

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 Russia-Kazakhstan border there is a lake named Petukhovo or Petukhovskoye (озеро Петуховское), a hypersaline soda lake.^[4] 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.^[5][6]