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Chu River
The Chu is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan. Of its total length of ,Чу (река) the first 115 kilometres are in Kyrgyzstan, then for 221 kilometres the river serves as the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan and the last 731 kilometres are in Kazakhstan. It is one of the longest s in Kyrgyzstan and in Kazakhstan. It has a of . The |
Tokmok
Tokmok (; ) is a city in the Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country's capital of Bishkek, with a population of 71,443 in 2021. Its elevation is 816 m above sea level. From 2003 to 2006, it was the administrative seat of Chüy Region. Just to the north is the river Chu and the border with Kazakhstan. Tokmok was established as a northern military outpost of the Khanate of Kokand . Thirty years later, it fell to the Russians who demolished the fort. The modern town was founded in 1864 by Major-General Mikhail Chernyayev. Tokmok is a district-level city of regional significance within Chüy Region. Although the city is surrounded by the region's Chüy District, it is not a part of it. Its total area is . Medieval heritage Despite its relatively modern origin, Tokmok stands in the middle of the Chüy Valley, which was a prize sought by many medieval conquerors. The ruins of Ak-Beshim, the capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, are situated 8 km s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drainage Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokuydynkol
Kokuydynkol () is a salt lake in the Moiynkum District, Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan. Moiynkum village is located to the southeast of the lake and Ulanbel to the WNW. Geography Kokuydynkol lies at the northern edge of the Moiynkum Desert, in the lower Chu river basin. It is located less than to the south of the Chu river channel, and upriver from lake Zhalanash. Both lakes are on the left side of the Chu channel. There is an elongated island in the middle of Kokuydynkol, and a small peninsula in the northern shore.Google Earth Kokuydynkol is dry most of the year. On average the lake has water right after the melting of the snows, between March and the beginning of May. By June its waters evaporate and it becomes a huge salt flat.''ATAMEKEN: Geographical encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5 Fauna Groups of demoiselle cranes have been recorded by the lake during their yearly migration.''Числе� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moiynkum Desert
The Moiynkum Desert (, ''Moiynqūm''), is a desert in the Turkistan Region, Turkistan and Jambyl Region, Zhambyl regions of southern Kazakhstan. Common plant types in the desert include Haloxylon ammodendron, saksaul, milk vetch, milkvetch, mugwort and Cyperaceae, sedge. The Andasay State Nature Reserve is a protected area that was established in 1966. Geography The Moiynkum Desert is limited by the Chu River to the north and east and the Karatau Mountains, Karatau and Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range, Kyrgyz Ala-Too mountain ranges to the south and southeast. Its elevation ranges from in the northern sector to in the southeast. River Chu (river), Chu flows at the northern edge of the desert, with lakes Kokuydynkol and Zhalanash (lake), Zhalanash close to the left side of its channel. In wet years the Chu may reach the Endorheic lake, endorheic salt lake Akzhaykyn in the Ashchykol Depression, at the western end of the desert. The Akzhar lake group is located in the southern area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Chüy Canal
The Great Chüy Canal (, ; , often abbreviated БЧК) is one of an extensive complex of irrigation canals of the Chüy Valley in Kyrgyzstan and to some extent Kazakhstan, composed of three branches: the Western Great Chüy Canal, the Eastern Great Chüy Canal, and the Southern Great Chüy Canal. The Great Chüy Canal flows through the northern part of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, from east to west. It was built under the administration of the Soviet Union, with M. V. Patrushev as authoring engineer. Thirty-three thousand individuals took part in building the canal, mainly using pickaxes and shovels (as opposed to heavy machinery), and it remains in collective consciousness in Kyrgyzstan as a major building project of the 20th century. A record was set in on June 16, 1941, as kolkhoz workers dug 90 cubic meters of dirt by hand. Western Great Chüy Canal The Western Great Chüy Canal is the longest irrigation canal in Kyrgyzstan. It begins from the river Chüy naer the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chüy Valley
The Chüy Valley (; ; ) is a large valley located in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan, in the northern part of the Tian Shan. It extends from Boom Gorge in the east to Muyunkum Desert in the west. It is long and has an area of about . It borders Kyrgyz Ala-Too in the south, and Chu-Ili mountains in the north. Through the Boom Gorge in the narrow eastern part Chüy Valley is linked with Issyk-Kul, Issyk-Kul Valley. The river Chu (river), Chu (Chüy) is the major stream of the valley. The warm summer and availability of drinking and irrigation water makes this area one of the most fertile and most densely populated regions of Kyrgyzstan. There are deposits of zinc ore, lead, gold, and construction materials. The 2006 ''World Drug Report'' estimated that 400,000 hectares of cannabis grow wild in the Chüy Valley. Climate The climate is sharply continental. Summers are long and hot, and winters are relatively short and cold. The average temperature of the hottest month ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Gorge
Boom Gorge (, ) is a river gorge in Chüy Region and Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. The gorge cuts, in a general north–south direction, across one of Tian Shan's mountain range systems. The range east of the gorge is known as Kyungey Ala-Too (, based on similar Kyrgyz spelling), the one to the west is the Kyrgyz Ala-Too (). Soviet topo map K-43-B (), 1:500,000. USSR Ministry of Defence, 1988. The river Chu passes northwards through it and then enters the wider Chüy Valley. The Bishkek-Tokmak-Kemin-Balykchy highway (A365) passes through the gorge, as does the railway from Bishkek to Balykchy Balykchy () is a town at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at an elevation of about 1,900 metres. Its area is , and its resident population was 42,875 in 2021 (both including Orto-Tokoy). A major industrial and transport centre (wo .... References Canyons and gorges of Kyrgyzstan {{Kyrgyzstan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orto-Tokoy Reservoir
Orto-Tokoy Reservoir or Orto-Tokoi Reservoir (), is a reservoir (water), reservoir of the Chu River, located in Kochkor District of Naryn Region of Kyrgyzstan. It has a surface area of 24 km 2 and a maximum volume of 470 × 106 meters 3. See also * Kasan-Sai Reservoir (formerly called the Orto-Tokoy Reservoir) References {{Reflist Reservoirs built in the Soviet Union Reservoirs in Kyrgyzstan Chu (river) Syr Darya basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balykchy
Balykchy () is a town at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at an elevation of about 1,900 metres. Its area is , and its resident population was 42,875 in 2021 (both including Orto-Tokoy). A major industrial and transport centre (wool and crop processing, lake shipping, rail terminal, and road junction) during the Soviet era, it lost most of its economic base after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of virtually all of its industrial facilities. The main road from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to China, a part of the ancient Great Silk Road, passes through Balykchy before it starts its long and arduous way across the alpine ranges of Naryn Province in central Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at Torugart Pass. Plans for the rail road from the Chinese border to Balykchy, where the line from Bishkek currently ends, are under discussion. Two other roads go around the north and south sides of Issyk Kul to Karakol and then around the east end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issyk-Kul
Issyk-Kul () or Ysyk-Köl (, ; ) is an endorheic saline lake in the western Tianshan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan, just south of a dividing range separating Kyrgyzstan from Kazakhstan. It is the eighth-deepest lake in the world, the eleventh-largest lake in the world by volume (though not in surface area), the deepest lake whose deepest point is above sea level (939 meters or 3,080 feet), and the third-largest saline lake. Although it is located at a lofty elevation of and subject to severe cold during winter, it rarely freezes over due to high salinity, hence its name, which in the Kyrgyz language means "warm lake". The lake is a Ramsar site of globally significant biodiversity and forms part of the Issyk-Kul Biosphere Reserve. Geography Issyk-Kul Lake is long, up to wide and its surface area is . It is the second-largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca in South America. It is at an altitude of and reaches in depth. About 118 rivers and streams f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jambyl Region
Jambyl or Zhambyl Region (; ), formerly known as Dzhambul Region () until 1991, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its administrative center is Taraz. The population of the region is 1,209,665; the city is 335,100. The region borders Kyrgyzstan, and is very near to Uzbekistan (all to the south). Jambyl also borders three other provinces: Karaganda Region (to the north), Turkistan Region (to the west) and Almaty Region (to the east). The total area is . The province borders Lake Balkhash to its northeast. The province (and its capital during the Soviet era) was named after the Kazakh '' akyn'' (folk singer) Jambyl Jabayev. History The Dzhambul Region was formed by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on October 14, 1939, and included nine districts, of which six were separated from the South Kazakhstan and three from the Alma-Ata region. Arys ammunition explosion In August 2021, nine people were killed in a major explosion in at a Kazakhstani ammunition depot at a mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shu, Jambyl
Shu () is a city in the Jambyl Region of Kazakhstan. The city is located on the Chu (river), Shu River, and is populated by approximately 35,000 people. History Named after the Shu historical region, Shu was founded as an urban-type settlement in 1928. It was founded because of Turksib construction. On December 24, 1960, the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR made it a city. The city's been in Shu District since Nursultan Nazarbayev's Decree on April 1, 1997. Transportation Shu is an important transportation hub for the southern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan regions. This is where the east-west Turksib, Turkestan-Siberia railway is joined with the railway running north to Kazakhstan's new capital, Astana and Petropavl, a city on the Transsib, Transsiberian railway. There is no direct railroad from Shu to Bishkek serviced by Kazakhstani trains. This means that every day a large number of passengers travelling from A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
