Lake Elton is located in the Volgograd region. It impresses everyone who has ever been there with its beauty. The pink surface with a golden hue and the snow-white coast strewn with salt crystals fascinate and seem unearthly. People come here to escape from the daily routine, improve their health and breathe in plenty of tart steppe air.
Lake Elton is the Russian Dead Sea. Elton is replenished by several brackish rivers and bottom mineral springs. It is the largest salt lake in Europe, it has huge reserves of table salt, brine (water saturated with salt), as well as therapeutic mineral mud. The mineralization of brine is 350-400 g/l, which is 1.5 times more than the salinity of the Dead Sea waters. In spring, the lake is filled with meltwater and becomes bluish, in summer it becomes very shallow and acquires a pink tint.

The depth of the lake is no more than one and a half meters - up to 10 cm in summer, up to 1.5 m in spring, even in the most full-flowing months. Therefore, the ideal time to travel to the lake is spring or early autumn, when there is a much more comfortable weather for treatment.

Lake Elton legends explain us its current name. The peoples of the Mongolian ethnographic group called this place Altyn-Nor ("Golden bottom"). The fact is that the algae that has been living here for thousands of years and a variety of crayfish contain hematochrome, a pigment that “gives birth” to five shades of a warm range: from golden to pink.

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