The Ayr Mountains ( kk, Айыр тауы; russian: Горы Айыр) are a mountain range in
Karkaraly District
Karkaraly District ( kk, Қарқаралы ауданы, ) 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 peop ...
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Karaganda Region
Karaganda Region ( kk, Qarağandy oblysy; russian: Карагандинская область, translit=Karagandinskaja oblast′), also spelled Qaraghandy Region, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Karaganda.
On 17 March 2022 it was an ...
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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 ...
.''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' Vol. 1 / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — Almaty: « Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5
The
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 ...
border stretches at the feet of the northern slopes of the range.
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The Ayr Mountains are part of the Kazakh Upland system (Saryarka). It is a range of moderate altitude located to the north of lakes
Saumalkol
Saumalkol ( kk, Саумалкөл; russian: Саумалколь) is a salt lake in Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake is located to the northwest of Karkaraly city. The nearest inhabited place is Saumalkol railway stat ...
Kyzyltau massif lies off the northeastern end of the range and the
Semizbughy
Semizbughy ( kk, Семізбұғы) is a mountain massif in Bukhar-Zhyrau District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.
Semizbughy is the highest point in the district. Semizhbugy mining village is located on the western side, at the foot of the moun ...
to the north of the northwestern slopes.
The highest point of the Ayr chain is high Zhosaly (Жосалы), located at the southwestern end. The soil of the mountains is dark brown. River
Ashchysu
The Ashchysu ( kk, Ащысу) is a river in the Abai Region, Kazakhstan and a tributary of the Shagan (Irtysh), Shagan, of the Irtysh basin. The river is long and the area of its basin is .Google Earth
Geography
The Ashchysu has its sources ...
has its sources in the range and flows below its northern slopes.
Flora
Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
vegetation grows on the slopes, including wormwood,
sedge
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...
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fescue
''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...
and alpine oatgrass. In protected valleys there are clumps of
birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 ...
hawthorn
Hawthorn or Hawthorns may refer to:
Plants
* '' Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae
* ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosace ...
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See also
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Geography of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia (with 14% of the country in Eastern Europe). With an area of about Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska. The country borders Turkmen ...