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Ulytau or Ulutau (; ) is a range of mountains in
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The Ulutau is one of the subranges of the
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 ...
. Administratively the range is part of the Ulytau District, Ulytau Region
Ulytau Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the region is the city of Jezkazgan. The area split off from Karaganda Region in 2022.
The region's borders roughly correspond to the western half of the old Jezkazgan R ...
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, ; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers, in the former Soviet Union. He shared the Nobel Prize in Ph ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978. (in Russian)
Geography
The Ulutau is one of the subranges of the Kazakh Upland
The Kazakh Uplands or the Kazakh Hummocks, known in Kazakh language, Kazakh as the ( , ; ), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan.
system. The range stretches from north to south for about . Its highest point is high Akmeshit. The mountains are rocky, deeply dissected by ravines and have an arid look.
Rivers Uly-Zhylanshyk, Terisaqqan
The Terisakkan (, ''Terısaqqan''; , ''Tersakkan'') is a river of northern Kazakhstan. A left tributary of the Ishim, it is long and has a basin area of .Zhymyky, Baikonyr, Kalmakkyrgan (Bileuty) and Karakengir have their sources in the range.Улы-Жыланшык
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Kazakh Uplands {{UlytauRegion-geo-stub
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...
'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, ; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers, in the former Soviet Union. He shared the Nobel Prize in Ph ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978. (in Russian)Google Earth
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Flora
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 ...
vegetation, including grasses, Artemisia and Ephedra grows in rock crevices. Shrubs
A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...
are found on scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits.
The term ''scree'' is ap ...
slopes.
See also
*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
External links
*Ұлытау - Visit Kazakhstan
Kazakh Uplands {{UlytauRegion-geo-stub