Menkeser ( kk, Меңкесер; russian: Мангисер) or Mangisor ( kk, Мәңгісор), also known as Bulandy ( kk, Бұланды), is a

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Mamlyut District Mamlyut ( kk, Мамлют ауданы, ) is a district of North Kazakhstan Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Mamlyut. Population: Geography The district is located in the Ishim Plain and ...

North Kazakhstan Region North Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Солтүстік Қазақстан облысы, translit=Soltüstık Qazaqstan oblysy; russian: Северо-Казахстанская область, translit=Severo-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a Regions of Kazak ...

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 ...

.Lakes in the Central Kazakhstan
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, the district capital, and to the SW of

Petropavl Petropavl ( kk, Петропавл, Petropavl ) or Petropavlovsk () is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also kno ...

city, the regional capital. Mengeser village lies to the north and Troitskoye village to the WSW of the western lakeshore.''ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5

Geography

Menkeser 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 ...

belonging to the Ishim River basin. It is located at the southern edge 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 ...

, 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 ...

. It has an oval shape, with a bay in the eastern side with a small island between the

landspit A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. It develops in places where re-entrance occurs, such as at a cove's headlands, by the process of longshore drift by longshore currents. The drift occurs due ...

s delimiting the bay. The shores are flat and the bottom of the lake is covered in greenish silt with a thickness between and . The lake is surrounded by agricultural fields and pasture land. It is fed by rain and snow. Lake Alua lies to the southeast, and Stanovoye to the northeast.

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References

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Saline lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: Geochemical correlations of elements and controls on their accumulation in water and bottom sediments
Lakes of North Kazakhstan Region Endorheic lakes of Asia West Siberian Plain {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

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