Ulken Koskol ( kk, Үлкен Қоскөл; russian: Большой Косколь) is a

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Aiyrtau District Aiyrtau ( kk, Айыртау ауданы, ) is a district of North Kazakhstan Region in northern Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in East ...

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Saumalkol Saumalkol ( kk, Саумалкөл; russian: Саумалколь) is a salt lake in Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. The lake is located to the northwest of Karkaraly city. The nearest inhabited place is Saumalkol railway stat ...

town, the district capital (formerly Volodarskoye), is located to the southwest. Kenashchi village lies to the southwest of the southwestern shore.

Geography

Ulken Koskol 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 ...

in the

Kazakh Uplands The Kazakh Uplands ( kk, Сарыарқа, ''Saryarqa'' - "Yellow Ridge", russian: Казахский мелкосопочник, Kazakhskiy Melkosopochnik), also known as the Kazakh Hummocks, is a large peneplain formation extending throughout th ...

. It is part of the Ishim River basin. The bottom is flat and the lakeshore

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

ey and gently sloping, ''Nature of Kazakhstan Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jacob. Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. Vol. Z. — 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T. Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5 Ulken Koskol is located in an area where there are numerous lakes. Kishi Koskol lies to the SSE, Shalkar to the south and lake

to the southwest. River

Kamysakty The Kamysakty ( kk, Қамысақты; russian: Камысакты) is a river in the Aiyrtau and Esil districts, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. It is long and has a catchment area of . Until 1865 the Kamysakty formed the uppermost stret ...

has its sources a little to the NW of the northern end of Ulken Koskol. The lake is fed mainly by snow and precipitation. Since the water is salty and has high mineral content it is not suitable for drinking. Ulken Koskol is largely surrounded by agricultural fields.

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Flora

Sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...

s and

fescue ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...

grow in the fields nearby that are not plowed.

References

Lakes of Kazakhstan Endorheic lakes of Asia North Kazakhstan Region Kazakh Uplands {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

Geography

Flora

See also

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