Akbet ( kk, Ақбет) is a mountain in

Bayanaul District Bayanaul ( kk, Баянауыл ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Bayanaul. Population: Geography Bayanaul District lies in the Kazakh Uplands. hi ...

Pavlodar Region Pavlodar Region ( kk, Павлодар облысы, translit=Pavlodar oblysy; russian: Павлодарская область, translit=Pavlodarskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and ; the latest official ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. Akbet is located about to the NNW of Bayanaul. According to local folklore, the mountain is named after a Kazakh girl who killed herself there after having been given in marriage to a man she did not love.Bayanaul legends. Bayanaul
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Geography

Akbet rises in the

Bayanaul Range Bayanaul Range ( kk, Баянауыл тауы; russian: Баянаульские горы) is a range of mountains in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.Kanysh Satpaev. Encyclopedia / Editor-in-Chief B. O. Jakyp. — Almaty "Kazakh Enc ...

, a subrange of the

Kazakh Uplands The Kazakh Uplands ( kk, Сарыарқа, ''Saryarqa'' - "Yellow Ridge", russian: Казахский мелкосопочник, Kazakhskiy Melkosopochnik), also known as the Kazakh Hummocks, is a large peneplain formation extending throughout th ...

(Saryarka). The mountain has generally gentle slopes, but rocky and strongly dissected on the western side, where there is a gorge with springs. With an elevation , it is the highest mountain in the

, as well as the highest point of

.''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. —

Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...

: «Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0(T.Z.),ISBN 9965-893-19-5 Geologically the peak is made up of

Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozo ...

and

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

syenite Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger proport ...

, porphyry and

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...

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Mountain Akbet in Bayanaul
{{Authority control Kazakh Uplands Mountains of Kazakhstan

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