Bolshoy Azhbulat ( kk, Үлкен Әжболат; russian: Большой Ажбулат) is a
bittern salt lake in
Uspen District
Uspen ( kk, Успен ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is Uspenka. Many Kazakhstan Germans live in this area. Population:
Geography
Lake Ulken Azhbolat, a bri ...
,
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 ...
.
The lake lies to the NNE of
Pavlodar
Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...
town, and west of
Lozovoye.
There are
mirabilite
Mirabilite, also known as Glauber's salt, is a hydrous sodium sulfate mineral with the chemical formula Na2SO4·10H2O. It is a vitreous, colorless to white monoclinic mineral that forms as an evaporite from sodium sulfate-bearing brines. It is fo ...
deposits in the Bolshoy Azhbulat.
[Donald E. Garrett, ''Sodium Sulfate: Handbook of Deposits, Processing, Properties, and Use'', p. 196]
Geography
Lake Bolshoy Azhbulat is an
endorheic lake
An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the l ...
located in the
Kulunda Steppe
The Kulunda Steppe or Kulunda Plain (russian: Кулундинская равнина, kk, Құлынды даласы, ''Qūlyndy dalasy'') is an alluvial plain in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is an important agricultural region in Western Siberi ...
, southern part of the
West Siberian Plain
The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...
, west of the Russian border. There is an elongated island in the middle of the lake. The
Burla river flows into the eastern lakeshore.
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In years of adequate rainfall the river reaches the lake, but in dry years it ends in Lake
Bolshoye Topolnoye
Bolshoye Topolnoye (russian: Большое Топольное), meaning "big poplar", is a lake in the southern part of the West Siberian Plain, Altai Krai, south-central Russia.Google Earth
Its waters are slightly saline. There are no settlem ...
, located to the east, on the other side of the Russia/Kazakhstan border.
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''Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) 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 ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
There are smaller lakes in the immediate vicinity of Bolshoy Azhbulat, including Maly Azhbulat (Кіші Әжболат), an intermittent lake on the eastern side, as well as Lake Klevkino (Клевкино) to the south.
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See also
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List of lakes of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is the list ...
References
External links
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Джурбай едет на озеро Большой Ажбулат
Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Pavlodar Region
West Siberian Plain
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