Ulken Azhbolat ( kk, Үлкен Әжболат; russian: Большой Ажбулат, ''Bolshoy Azhbulat'') is a bittern salt lake in

Uspen District Uspen ( kk, Успен ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is Uspenka. Many Kazakhstan Germans live in this area. Population: Geography Lake Ulken Azhbolat, a bri ...

, Pavlodar Region,

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. The lake lies to the NNE of

Pavlodar Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...

town, north of

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, the district capital, and west of Lozovoye. There are mirabilite deposits in the lake area.Donald E. Garrett, ''Sodium Sulfate: Handbook of Deposits, Processing, Properties, and Use'', p. 196

Geography

Lake Ulken Azhbolat is an endorheic lake located in the Kulunda Steppe, southern 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 ...

, west of the Russian border. There is an elongated island in the middle of the lake. The Burla river flows into the eastern lakeshore.

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In years of adequate rainfall the river reaches the lake, but in dry years it ends in Lake Bolshoye Topolnoye, located to the east, on the other side of the Kazakhstan–Russia border.Бурла
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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian) There are smaller lakes in the immediate vicinity of Ulken Azhbolat, including Kishi Azhbolat (Кіші Әжболат), an intermittent lake on the eastern side, as well as Lake Klevkino (Клевкино) on the southern. Lake

Ulken Tobylzhan Ulken Tobylzhan ( kk, Үлкен Тобылжан; russian: Большой Таволжан, ''Bolshoy Tavolzhan'') is a salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. The lake lies to the northeast of Pavlodar town and south of Us ...

lies to the south and lake Kyzyltuz to the northwest.

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Джурбай едет на озеро Большой Ажбулат
Endorheic lakes of Asia Lakes of Pavlodar Region West Siberian Plain Kazakhstan–Russia border {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

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