Sormoildy or Sormoiyldy ( kk, Сормойылды; russian: Сормойылды) 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
Beskaragay District
Beskaragay ( kk, Бесқарағай ауданы; ) is a district of Abai Region in eastern Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern ...
,
Abai Region,
Kazakhstan.
Sormoildy is located west of the
Russia-Kazakhstan border.
Koyanbay village lies to the northeast,
Begen to the southwest and
Beskaragay
Beskaragay ( kk, Бесқарағай; russian: Бескарагай), known as ''Bolshaya Vladimirovka'' until 2007, is a settlement in Abai Region, Kazakhstan. It is the capital of Beskaragay District and the administrative center of the Beska ...
, the district capital, to the SSE.
Malinovoye Ozero town is located to the northeast, on the other side of the Russian border.
Geography
Sormoildy is an
endorheic lake cluster part of the
Irtysh basin. It lies in a
tectonic depression
A structural basin is a large-scale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat-lying strata. They are geological depressions, the inverse of domes. Elongated structural basins are also known as synclines. ...
at the southern end of the
Kulunda Plain. Lakes
Tuz and
Shoshkaly stretch roughly to the southwest, and lake
Bargana to the NNW. Lake
Malinovoye
Malinovoye (russian: Малиновое) is a salt lake in Mikhaylovsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located in the southwestern part of the Krai. The nearest inhabited place is Malinovoye Ozero, to the sou ...
lies to the northeast, on the other side of the border. The Irtysh river flows to the WSW.
The lakes of the group are spread out in the flat basin and, except for the smaller ones on the periphery, they are connected following the melting of the steppe snow in the spring. By the summer most of the lakes are dry. The central part of the cluster has an approximate length of and a width of , but its shoreline is not well defined, with numerous indentations and islands. In years of drought Sormoildy dries out completely.
Google Earth
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[''ATAMEKEN: Geographical encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacobp. - ]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", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5
Flora and fauna
Sormoildy is surrounded by
steppe vegetation.
See also
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Sor (geomorphology)
A sor ( kk, сор; tk, шор) is a closed drainless depression characteristic of the Central Asian deserts, found especially in Kazakhstan. The sor area is seasonally flooded, forming a lake, which becomes an inland salt marsh and then a salt ...
References
External links
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Hydrochemical Research and Geochemical Classification of Salt Lakes in the Pavlodar Region
Kulunda Steppe
Lake groups of Kazakhstan
Geography of Abai Region
Kazakhstan–Russia border
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