Stanovoye (), 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 liter). I ...

in Mamlyut District,

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 ...

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. The lake is located to the SW of Mamlyut, the district capital, and to the WSW of

Petropavl Petropavl ( ; ) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. Petropavl is about from Kökşetau, northwest of the national cap ...

city, the regional capital. Stanovoye village lies to the north of the northern lakeshore.''ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5

Geography

Stanovoye 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 ...

belonging to the Ishim River basin. It is located in an area dotted with small lakes 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 lake has an elongated shape, stretching from north to south for over . It has a shallow bay opening to the southeastern end. There are four small lakes close to its eastern lakeshore. Stanovoye is fed by rain and snow. The bottom of the lake is muddy and the mud is reputed to have medicinal properties. Lake

Menkeser Menkeser (; ) or Mangisor (), also known as Bulandy (), is a salt lake in Mamlyut District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. The lake is located to the SW of Mamlyut, the district capital, and to the SW of Petropavl city, the regional cap ...

lies to the southwest and lake Alua to the south. Lakes

Akush Akush () or Akysh (), is a salt lake in Kyzylzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan and Kazan District, Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation. The lake is located to the SSW of Kazanskoye, the district capital in Russia, and to the N ...

and

Siverga Siverga (; , is a salt lake in Kyzylzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan and Berdyuzhye and Kazan districts of Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation. The lake is located to the southeast of Berdyuzhye and to the southwest of Kaza ...

are located at 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, ...

roughly to the northeast, and Medvezhye to the NNW, to the north of the border.

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Flora

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'' and other kind of

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s grow in stretches of the lakeshore. The agricultural fields and pasture land surrounding the lake are used by the adjacent settlements.

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Saline lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: Geochemical correlations of elements and controls on their accumulation in water and bottom sediments
Lakes of North Kazakhstan Region Endorheic lakes of Asia West Siberian Plain {{NorthKazakhstanRegion-geo-stub

Geography

Flora

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