Medvezhye (Kurgan Oblast)

Medvezhye (Russian: Медвежье озеро), meaning "bear lake", is a body of water in Petukhovsky District, Kurgan Oblast, Russian Federation.

[1] There are two settlements by the lake Kurort Ozero Medvezhye and Novoye Ilinskoye.

According to legend a bear with a sore paw dipped it in the lake and was healed.

Lake Filatovo lies 67 kilometers (42 mi) to the southwest by the Kazakhstan-Russia border, and Stanovoye lies in Kazakhstan 45 kilometers (28 mi) to the SSE.

[2] During the summer Artemia salina crustaceans breed in large numbers in the lake.