Yegindybulak (, ''Egindibulaq'') is a settlement in

Karkaraly District Karkaraly District (, ) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Karkaraly. As of 2019, the district is home to a population of 36,025 people. Geography Karasor, an endorheic ...

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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. It is the administrative center of the Yegindybulak Rural District (KATO code - 354851100). Population:

History

The Koyandy Fair, a large annual trade fair held every June from 1848 to 1930, was located by the banks of the Taldy river, southwest of modern-day Yegindybulak on the caravan route from

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. Yegindybulak was the administrative center of Kazybekbi District, a defunct administrative division of the Karaganda Region from 1928 to 1963 and again between 1964 and 1997.''Справочник по истории административно-территориального устройства Карагандинской области''. — Караганда: Государственный архив Карагандинской области, 2006

Geography

Yegindybulak is located on a dry

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 ...

area at the feet of Mount Ku. The terrain to the north of the town is mountainous. Lake Balyktykol lies to the west. Nearby settlements include Karabulak (west southwest), Terekti (northwest), Osibay (northeast), and Kiikqashqan and Dogalan (southeast).

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*{{cite web, url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzIAiouPgIU, title=Views around Yegindybulak, publisher=YouTube, author=БЕК КАРИПБЕК, date=4 April 2012, access-date=1 September 2012 Populated places in Karaganda Region