Lakes Of The Lower Turgay And Irgiz
Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz () is a protected area in the Turgay Depression, Kazakhstan. Administratively it is located in the Yrgyz District of the Aktobe Region. Description The Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz protected area covers of the southern sector of the Turgay Depression. It lies in the basins of rivers Turgay (river), Turgay, its tributary Irgiz (Turgay), Irgyz, and the Ulkayak, whose riverbeds usually dry up in summer. The area includes a number of lakes of different origins, many of which are salt lake, salty. The lakes are roughly aligned in a SW / NE direction, such as the Kyzylkol (Turgay), Kyzylkol, Ayrkol, Baitakkol, Kogakol, Zharkol, Zharmakol, Zharkamys, Keltekol, Shuzhyk, Karmakkol, Kogakol, Karpykkol, Maikol, Aidarkol and Aikol. The Saryozek (river), Saryozek river flows from lake Bokenkol. In 1976 it was recognized as a Ramsar site. The area is part of the Kazakh semi-desert ecoregion. Ecology The Irgiz-Turgay Lakes is an Important Bird Area. T ...
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Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The mission's Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were joined in orbit in 2024 by a third, Sentinel-2C, and in the future by Sentinel-2D, eventually replacing the A and B satellites, respectively. The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space Agency. The satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Overview The Sentinel-2 mission includes: * Multispectral image, Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the Visible spectrum, visible, Infrared#Regions within the infrared, near infrared, and Infrared#Regions within the infrared, short wave infrared part of the Electromagnetic ...
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Baitakkol
Baitakkol (; ), is a lake in Yrgyz District, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan.Google Earth The nearest inhabited locality is Belcher, located to the north of the northern end of the lakeshore. The area surrounding the lake is arid, featuring an extremely continental climate and cold winters with little snowfall. Summers are hot with strong winds. Geography Baitakkol lies in the southern part of the Turgay Depression at above sea level. It is a long lake, the largest of the group of lakes in the valley of the lower Turgay. It is roughly aligned from SW to NE, in the same direction as smaller lakes and salt pans nearby. Lake Keltekol () lies to the south of the central part. The northwestern end of the lake connects via an intermittent channel with the right bank of the Turgay, which flows southwards to the east of the lake cluster.''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'', Vol, 2 / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — Almaty: « Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-8 ...
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List Of Lakes Of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is a list of the more important lakes, some of which are shared (Caspian Sea, Lake Aral, Lake Aike, etc.) with the neighbouring countries. See also * Sor (geomorphology) References {{Europe topic, List of lakes of * Lakes Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

Semi-desert
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-arid climates, depending on variables such as temperature, and they give rise to different biomes. Defining attributes of semi-arid climates A more precise definition is given by the Köppen climate classification, which treats steppe climates (''BSh'' and ''BSk'') as intermediates between desert climates (BW) and humid climates (A, C, D) in ecological characteristics and agricultural potential. Semi-arid climates tend to support short, thorny or scrubby vegetation and are usually dominated by either grasses or shrubs as they usually cannot support forests. To determine if a location has a semi-arid climate, the precipitation threshold must first be determined. The method used to find the precipitation threshold (in millimeters): * mu ...
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Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife International. There are over 13,000 IBAs worldwide. These sites are small enough to be entirely conserved and differ in their character, habitat or ornithological importance from the surrounding habitat. In the United States the program is administered by the National Audubon Society. Often IBAs form part of a country's existing protected area network, and so are protected under national legislation. Legal recognition and protection of IBAs that are not within existing protected areas varies within different countries. Some countries have a National IBA Conservation Strategy, whereas in others protection is completely lacking. History In 1985, following a specific request from the European Economic Community, Birdlife International dr ...
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Saryozek (river)
Sary-Ozek or Saryozek may refer to one of the following, related to places in Kazakhstan. *Sary-Ozek station, a railway station *Sary-Ozek, Almaty Region, a settlement in Kazakhstan's Almaty Region *Sary-Ozek, Jambyl Region, a settlement in Kazakhstan's Jambyl Region *Sary-Ozek military range, witnessed demolition of Soviet ICBMs *''Sary-Ozek. Farewell to Arms'', a 1988 documentary about ICBM demolition *Sary-Ozek or Sarozek, a fictional cosmodrome and desert in Chingiz Aitmatov's novel ''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years ''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'' (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the ''Novy Mir'' literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. The novel was incl ...