Kypshak ( kk, Қыпшақ), also known as Azhibeksor ( kk, Әжібайсор; russian: Ажибексор), is a
salt lake
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in
Nura District,
Karaganda Region
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On 17 March 2022 it was an ...
,
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.
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In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a
salt pan,
but in the following decades it filled up once more and on the
USSR
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topographic map of 1989 it was marked again as a lake.
Geography
Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at above sea level. It is located to the southwest of
Lake Tengiz
Tengiz Lake ( kk, Теңіз көлі, ''Teñız kölı''; russian: Тенгиз) is a saline lake in north-central part of Kazakhstan.
On 16 October 1976, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 23 unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of ...
and to the west of lake
Kirey.
[''Nature of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia'' / General editor. 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" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5
It is an
endorheic lake, having no outflow. long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.
See also
*
List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
SARYARKA - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Karaganda Region
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