Semizbughy () is a mountain
massif
A massif () is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central). In mountaineering literature, ''massif'' is frequently used to denote the main mass of an ...
in
Bukhar-Zhyrau District
Bukhar-Zhyrau District (, ) is a Districts of Kazakhstan, district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the settlement of Botakara. Population:
History
Formed in 1938 as Voroshilovsky Distric ...
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Karaganda Region
Karaganda Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda. The region borders Akmola and Pavlodar Region to the north, Abai Region to the east, Jetisu, Almaty, and Zhambyl Regions to the south, and Kostanay and Ulytau regio ...
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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 ...
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Semizbughy is the highest point in the district.
Semizhbugy mining village is located on the western side, at the foot of the mountain.
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Geography
Semizbughy is a small massif, part 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. . Its maximum length is and its width . It has a gentle and smooth relief and rises above the southern shore of lake
Rudnichnoye, to the north of the northwestern slopes of the
Ayr Mountains. The highest summit of the range has an elevation of . River
Ashchysu has its sources in the southern slopes of the range.
[Қарағанды. Қарағанды облысы: Энциклопедия. - Алматы: Атамұра, 2006. ISBN 9965-34-515-5]
Flora
The slopes of mount Semizbughy are covered with low vegetation, including
sedge
The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as wikt:sedge, sedges. The family (biology), family is large; botanists have species description, described some 5,500 known species in about 90 ...
s,
alpine oatgrass and
fescue
''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...
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See also
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Geography of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia, with a small portion in Eastern Europe. With an area of about Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world, more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger ...
References
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External links
VeloKaraganda / Semizbuga 2009
Kazakh Uplands
Mountains of Kazakhstan