Kishi-Karoy or Kishi Karaoy, meaning "Little Karoy" ( kk, Кіші Қараой; russian: Киши-Карой), is a bittern salt lake in

Akzhar District Akzhar ( kk, Ақжар ауданы, ) is a district of North Kazakhstan Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Talshik. Population: Geography Lakes Ulken-Karoy Ulken-Karoy or Ulken Karaoy, ...

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. The

Kazakhstan–Russia border The Kazakhstan–Russia border (russian: Казахстанско-российская граница, kk, Қазақстан-Ресей шекарасы) is the international border between the Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russia ...

lies about to the northwest and northeast of the northern shores of the lake. Kishi-Karoy village, formerly ''Kievskoye'', Bostandyk, Baytus and Kenashchi, formerly ''Menzhinskoye'', are the nearest inhabited localities.

Geography

Kishi-Karoy lies in the southern part of the

Ishim Plain Ishim Steppe (russian: Ишимская равнина, kk, Есіл даласы, ''Yesil dalasy'') is a plain in the southern part of Western Siberia, between the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Administratively it is part of Kurgan, Tyumen, and Omsk ...

, the southernmost sector 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 ...

. It 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 at the bottom of a depression.The Origin of the Depression Lake Systems
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Ulken-Karoy Ulken-Karoy or Ulken Karaoy, meaning "Big Karoy" ( kk, Үлкен Қараой; russian: Улькен-Карой or ''Большой Карой'' —Bolshoy Karoy), is a salt lake in Akzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. The lake ...

(Big Karoy) lies to the east and Kalibek and Alabota to the southwest. Lake

Ebeyty Ebeyty (russian: Эбейты) is a salt lake in Omsk Oblast, Russian Federation. The Kazakhstan–Russia border lies about to the southeast of the lake. Ebeyty lies at the tripoint of Moskalensky, Poltavsky and Isilkulsky districts. The wat ...

lies to the NNE, on the Russian side of the border. In the summer Kishi-Karoy shrinks and becomes

hypersaline A hypersaline lake is a landlocked body of water that contains significant concentrations of sodium chloride, brines, and other salts, with saline levels surpassing that of ocean water (3.5%, i.e. ). Specific microbial species can thrive in h ...

and in years of drought the lake may dry completely up.Киши-Карой
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'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed.

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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian) Kishi-Karoy is surrounded by

salt marsh A salt marsh or saltmarsh, 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. It is dominated ...

es. The bottom is flat, in parts clayey. The lake is mainly fed by snow. No significant rivers feed its waters.

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Flora

Kishi-Karoy is surrounded by the arid Kazakh Steppe landscape where the main vegetation is

sagebrush Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus ''Artemisia''. The best known sagebrush is the shrub ''Artemisia tridentata''. Sagebrushes are native to the North American west. Following is an alph ...

and

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 ...

References

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На севере Казахстана призвали беречь экосистему солёного озера Киши-Карой - Петропавловск.news
(in Russian)
Expeditions along the watersheds of the middle forest-steppe of the Omsk region
(in Russian)
ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНАЯ НАЦИЯ В ФОКУСЕ ГУМАНИТАРНЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ
(in Russian) Lakes of Kazakhstan Endorheic lakes of Asia North Kazakhstan Region West Siberian Plain {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

Geography

Flora

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