Stanovoye ( kk, Становое), 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). ...
in
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 ...
.
The lake is located to the SW of
Mamlyut
russian: Мамлютка
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, the district capital, and to the WSW 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.
Stanovoye village lies to the north of the northern lakeshore.
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Geography
Stanovoye 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 in an area dotted with small lakes 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 ...
. The lake has an elongated shape, stretching from north to south for over . It has a shallow bay opening to the southeastern end. There are four small lakes close to its eastern lakeshore.
Stanovoye is fed by rain and snow. The bottom of the lake is muddy and the mud is reputed to have medicinal properties.
Lake
Menkeser
Menkeser ( kk, Меңкесер; russian: Мангисер) or Mangisor ( kk, Мәңгісор), also known as Bulandy ( kk, Бұланды), is a salt lake in Mamlyut District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake is located to the SW ...
lies to the southwest and lake
Alua to the south. Lakes
Akush and
Siverga
Siverga ( kk, Сиверга; russian: Сиверга , is a salt lake in Kyzylzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan and Berdyuzhye and Kazan districts of Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation.
The lake is located to the southeast of ...
are located at 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 ...
roughly to the northeast, and
Medvezhye to the NNW, to the north of the border.
Google Earth
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Flora
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Typha
''Typha'' is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush or reedmace, in American English as reed, cattail, or punks, in A ...
'' and other kind of
reed
Reed or Reeds may refer to:
Science, technology, biology, and medicine
* Reed bird (disambiguation)
* Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times
* Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales
* Re ...
s grow in stretches of the lakeshore. The agricultural fields and pasture land surrounding the lake are used by the adjacent settlements.
See also
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List of lakes of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is the list ...
References
External links
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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
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