Severka () 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.Численность населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2016 года There are 16 streets.
Geography and Ecology Severka is located 16 km south of Klyuchi (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novovoznesenka is the nearest rural locality.Расстояние от Ключей до Северки Between Severka and the Russia-Kazakhstan border there is a lake named Petukhovo or Petukhovskoye (), a hypersaline soda lake.состав рассолов и минеральная зональность донных отложений содовых озер КулундинскОЙ степИ (Западная Сибирь) 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.NCBI Nucleotide: MAG: Candidatus Lokiarchaeota archaeon isolate CSSed165cm_327R1. See Additional File 4 (xlsx).
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