page_title: Kabardino-Balkaria
section_title: Lakes
hierarchical_section_title: Kabardino-Balkaria / Geography / Lakes
caption_attribution_description: Map of en:Kabardino-Balkaria, en:Russia en:Category:Caucasus maps en:Category:Maps of the Russian republics
context_page_description: The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic or Kabardino-Balkaria, is a federal subject of Russia located in the North Caucasus. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 859,939 on 12,500 square km. Its capital is Nalchik. The area contains the highest mountain in Europe, Mount Elbrus, at 5,642 m. Mount Elbrus has 22 glaciers that feed three rivers — Baksan, Malka and Kuban. The mountain is covered with snow year-round.
  Kabardino-Balkaria includes two major ethnic communities, the Kabardins, who speak a North-West Caucasian language, and the Balkars who speak a Turkic language. Kabardins make up the bulk of the republic's population, followed by Russians and Balkars. Other groups include Ossetians, Turks, Ukrainians, Armenians, Koreans, Chechens. According to a 2012 survey, 60% of the population adheres to Islam, 15.6% to the Russian Orthodox Church, 3% to Adyghe folk religion and other indigenous faiths, and 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians. In addition, 12% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious".
context_section_description: There are about 100 lakes in the Republic, none of which is large. Just over half (55) are located between the Baksan and Malka Rivers, the largest each of an area of no more than 0.01 square kilometers (0.0039 sq mi). Some of the lakes are:
  Tserikkel Lake (area 26,000 m²; depth 368 m)
  Lower Goluboye Lake
  Kel-Ketchen Lake (depth 177 m)
  Upper Tserikkel Lake (depth 18 m)
  Sekretnoye Lake
  Tambukan Lake (area 1.77 km²; depth 1.5 to 2 m), partially within Stavropol Krai.
caption: Map of the republic.
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