Tersakkan River
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The Terisaqqan ( kk, Терісаққан, ''Terısaqqan''; russian: Терсаккан, ''Tersakkan'') is a river of northern
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. A left tributary of the Ishim, it is long and has a basin area of .article110244
Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
It flows through the western parts of the
Kazakh Uplands The Kazakh Uplands ( kk, Сарыарқа, ''Saryarqa'' - "Yellow Ridge", russian: Казахский мелкосопочник, Kazakhskiy Melkosopochnik), also known as the Kazakh Hummocks, is a large peneplain formation extending throughout th ...
and the average annual flow is approximately , with a maximum up to . In the upper reaches it dries up, and it freezes to the bottom in some winters. Peak flow is in April during snowmelt.


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