Tielieketi () is located in

Yumin County Yumin County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Qagantokay County, is a county situated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Tacheng Prefecture, bordering Kazakhstan's ...

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

, the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, adjacent to the border with Kazakhstan. The name comes from the

Terekty River The Terekty River ( kk, Теректi өзенi, russian: река Теректы), also known under the Sinified spelling Tielieketi (), is a small river that flows from China to Kazakhstan. In its lower course the river is also known as the Kusak ...

, an intermittent stream which flows China to Kazakhstan.

Tielieketi Incident

The Tielieketi military incident between Soviet and Chinese border troops (known in Soviet sources as "the border conflict near Lake Zhalanashkol" (russian: пограничный конфликт у озера Жаланашколь) occurred on August 13, 1969, during the

Sino-Soviet split The Sino-Soviet split was the breaking of political relations between the China, People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union caused by Doctrine, doctrinal divergences that arose from their different interpretations and practical applications ...

. The Soviet force eliminated a unit of about 30 Chinese soldiers, capturing four. Soviet sources allege the August 13 clash between Soviet border guards and a Chinese force happened after persistent violation of the Chinese-Soviet border by Chinese soldiers starting the previous night. According to these sources, the Chinese military unit which took part in the incident was equipped with cameras and a professional video camera.Armed border conflict near the lake Zhalanashkol, August, 1969
(in Russian)

Consequences

After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990s, Tielieketi was administered by Kazakhstan. In 1999, China and Kazakhstan signed a joint declaration to resolve their long-term border issues, and Tielieketi was ceded to China.

References

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