Zharagash (; ) 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 Zhelezin District,

Pavlodar Region Pavlodar Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and The latest official estimate (as at the start of 2022) was 756,511. Its capital is the city of Pavlodar, which had a population of 360,014 at the start of 201 ...

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. The lake lies to the east of

Mayly Mayly (), ''Ozyornoye'' until 2023, is a settlement in Zhelezin District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Mayly Rural District (KATO code — 55425710). Population: Geography Mayly is located to the northea ...

village, about west of the Kazakhstan-Russia border, and to the WSW of Kupino,

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Geography

Zharagash is part of the

Irtysh The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world. The river's source lies in the Altai Mountains, Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern p ...

basin. It is a

steppe lake An endorheic basin ( ; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent ...

of the

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, located about to the southwest of

Lake Chany Lake Chany (, ) is a lake in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. The lake extends across five districts of Novosibirsk Oblast: Zdvinsky, Barabinsky, Chanovsky, Kupinsky and Chistoozyorny. Geography Lake Chany is one of the largest lakes in Russia ...

, the largest lake of the area, on the other side of the border. The Kyzyltuz lake group, with

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Krasnovishnevoye Krasnovishnevoye () is a salt lake in Kupinsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.Google Earth The lake is located at the southwestern end of the Oblast. The nearest inhabited places are Blagoveshchenka (Novosibirsk Oblast), Blagove ...

on the Russian side, lies to the south.

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The shores of the lake are flat, with two big indentations on the western side and a long projection in the east. The water is salty and its salinity increases in the summer, when it often dries up, becoming a

salt marsh A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. I ...

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Flora and fauna

The environment of Zharagash is too strongly saline to support any fauna in its waters.

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and

grasses Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in ...

grow in some stretches of the salt marshes surrounding the lake.

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Железинский район
Lakes of Pavlodar Region Baraba Steppe Kazakhstan–Russia border {{PavlodarRegion-geo-stub

Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

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