Kypshak ( kk, Қыпшақ), also known as Azhibeksor ( kk, Әжібайсор; russian: Ажибексор), is a
salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...
in
Nura District
Nura District ( kk, Нұра ауданы, ) is a Districts of Kazakhstan, district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the settlement of Kievka, Karaganda, Kievka. The district has a population o ...
,
Karaganda Region
Karaganda Region ( kk, Qarağandy oblysy; russian: Карагандинская область, translit=Karagandinskaja oblast′), also spelled Qaraghandy Region, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda.
On 17 March 2022 it was an ...
,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...
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In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a
salt pan,
but in the following decades it filled up once more and on the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
topographic map of 1989 it was marked again as a lake.
Geography
Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at above sea level. It is located to the southwest of
Lake Tengiz
Tengiz Lake ( kk, Теңіз көлі, ''Teñız kölı''; russian: Тенгиз) is a saline lake in north-central part of Kazakhstan.
On 16 October 1976, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 23 unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of ...
and to the west of lake
Kirey.
[''Nature of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jakyp. - ]Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of ...
: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5
It is an
endorheic lake
An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the l ...
, having no outflow. long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.
See also
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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 the list o ...
References
External links
SARYARKA - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Karaganda Region
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