The Ashchysu (; ) is a river in May District, Pavlodar Region, and

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, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It is long and has a catchment area of . The river water is used for irrigation of nearby farmland in the summer and to provide drinking water to local settlements.

Course

The Ashchysu has its sources in a spring of the southern slopes of the Semizbughy massif of the

Kazakh Uplands The Kazakh Uplands or the Kazakh Hummocks, known in Kazakh as the ( , ; ), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan.

. It heads first southwards, then it bends and flows roughly westwards within a plain to the north of the Ayr Mountains. Downwards from its middle course the river channel forms

meanders A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank or river cliff) and deposits sediments on an inn ...

. The water of the river is fresh in the upper reaches, its salinity increasing further downriver. The Ashchysu reservoir is located in the final stretch, about upstream from the confluence with the Nura. Finally it reaches the right bank of river Nura upstream from Sheshenkara village, former ''Proletarskoye''.

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The Ashchysu is fed by snow and underground water. The river flows all year round and is frozen between November and mid-April. Its main tributary is the Akkora (Аққора), flowing from the northwest into its right bank.''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' Vol. 1 / Ch. ed. A. Nysanbayev. — Almaty: « Kazakh encyclopedia» , 1998 ISBN 5-89800-123-9

Fish

Fish species inhabiting the waters of the Ashchysu, the

crucian carp The crucian carp (''Carassius carassius'') is a medium-sized member of the common carp family Cyprinidae. It occurs widely in northern European regions. Its name derives from the Low German ''karusse'' or ''karutze'', possibly from Medieval Lat ...

tench The tench or doctor fish (''Tinca tinca'') is a freshwater, fresh- and brackish water, brackish-water fish of the order Cypriniformes found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including Great Britain, Britain and Ireland east into Asia as far ...

pike Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to: Fish * Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus'' * Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes * ''Esox'', genus of ...

perch Perch is a common name for freshwater fish from the genus ''Perca'', which belongs to the family Percidae of the large order Perciformes. The name comes from , meaning the type species of this genus, the European perch (''P. fluviatilis'') ...

and ide.

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{{Rivers of Kazakhstan Rivers of Kazakhstan Pavlodar Region Karaganda Region Tengiz basin

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