Kyzyltuz ( kk, Қызылтұз russian: Кызылтуз) is a
salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...
group in
Zhelezin District,
Pavlodar Region,
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 lakes lie to the northwest of
Krasnovka village, in the area of the
Kazakhstan-Russia border, and to the ENE of
Zhelezinka, the district capital.
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Geography
Kyzyltuz is part of the Irtysh basin. It is a steppe lake
An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...
cluster of the Baraba Plain
The Baraba steppe or Baraba Lowland (), is a plain in western Siberia.
The Baraba Lowland is an important Russian agricultural region.
Geography
It stretches for across the Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts between the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers.
Gr ...
, it includes lake Krasnovishnevoye that lies on the other side of the border. The Sheldauk hot springs
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...
are located to the south of the southern shore. Google Earth
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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 ...
, the shallow central section drying earlier. In some years all lakes of the group dry up.[''ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5] Other lakes in the area are Zharagash, to the north and Ulken Azhbolat
Ulken Azhbolat ( kk, Үлкен Әжболат; russian: Большой Ажбулат, ''Bolshoy Azhbulat'') is a bittern (salt), bittern salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake lies to the NNE of Pavlodar town, nort ...
to the southeast.
Flora and fauna
The Kyzyltuz lakes are surrounded by steppe vegetation. The waters of the lake cluster are too strongly saline for fish, but ''Artemia salina
''Artemia salina'' is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to ''Triops'' and cladocerans than to true shrimp. It belongs to a lineage that does not appear to have changed much in .
''A. salina'' is nati ...
'' thrive in the summer. of the small crustaceans were harvested in 2002.Kursiv, No. 04 (22), Thursday, February 7, 2019
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See also
* List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
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Железинский район
Lake groups of Kazakhstan
Lakes of Pavlodar Region
Kazakhstan–Russia border
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