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Shelegino (; ) is a
lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in
Magzhan Zhumabayev Magzhan Zhumabayev (, romanized: ''Mağjan Jūmabaev''), (25 June 1893 – 19 March 1938) was a Kazakh people, Kazakh poet and writer who revolutionized the Kazakh language. Biography He was born in 1893 into a Kazakhs, Kazakh Muslim family i ...
and Kyzylzhar districts,
North Kazakhstan Region North Kazakhstan Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan, with a population of 522,171. Its capital is Petropavl, with a population of 221,907 people. It is the only region of Kazakhstan in which ethnic Kazakhs don't make up a majority. History ...
,
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 ...
. The border between the two districts runs across the lake from northwest to southeast. Bulayevo, the district capital, is located to the southeast. The
Kazakhstan–Russia border The Kazakhstan–Russia border is the international border between the Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russia, Russian Federation. It is the longest continuous international border in the world and the second longest by total length, ...
lies to the north of the lake. The water of the lake is used for drinking purposes. The banks are a pasture zone for local cattle.


Geography

Shelegino 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 water, saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes ...
of the
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river basin. It lies at the southern edge of the
Ishim Plain Ishim Steppe (, , ''Yesil dalasy'') is a plain in the southern part of Western Siberia, between the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Administratively it is part of Kurgan, Tyumen, and Omsk oblasts in Russia, and the North Kazakhstan Region in Kazakhstan. ...
, part of the
West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain () is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei, Yenisei River in the east, and the Altai Mountains on the southeast. Much of the plain is poorly d ...
. The surface of the lake is , increasing to during floods. Lake Kamysty lies to the SSE and Tavolzhan only to the NNE on the other side of the border.
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Shelegino is a drying lake. Its water level has dropped significantly in recent decades and currently there are only a few residual pools left. Most of the remaining surface of the lake is
swamp A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
y. The lakeshore is flat and the bottom is smooth and clayey. The thickness of the silt layer varies between and . The water is soft and hardens at the end of summer with a mineralization varying between and .''Kazakhstan National encyclopedia'' / Chief editor A. Nysanbayev -
Almaty Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains ...
" Kazakh Encyclopedia" General editor, 1998, Volume IX - ISBN 5-89800-123-9


Flora and fauna

Shelegino is surrounded by
steppe In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes. Steppe biomes may include: * the montane grasslands and shrublands biome * the tropical and subtropica ...
and marshy areas, Reeds cover most of the shallow parts of the surface and
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 and
willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions. Most species are known ...
s grow near the shore. Few spots in the middle of the lake are not encumbered with aquatic vegetation. Migratory birds such as the
greater flamingo The greater flamingo (''Phoenicopterus roseus'') is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. Common in the Old World, they are found in Northern (coastal) and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent (south of the Him ...
visit the lake seasonally.Zoogeographical results of the bicentennial study of the northern part of the Asian population of Phoenicopterus roseus
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See also

*
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 o ...


References


External links

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Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia

Drying Lakes: A Review On The Health Conditions and Restoration Strategies
Lakes of Kazakhstan North Kazakhstan Region Kazakhstan–Russia border {{NorthKazakhstanRegion-geo-stub