Ulken Tobylzhan ( kk, Үлкен Тобылжан; russian: Большой Таволжан, ''Bolshoy Tavolzhan'') is a

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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 Pavlodar Region ( kk, Павлодар облысы, translit=Pavlodar oblysy; russian: Павлодарская область, translit=Pavlodarskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and ; the latest official ...

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. The lake lies to the northeast 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 and south of Uspenka, the district capital. There is commercial extraction of

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from Ulken Tobylzhan and Maly Tobylzhan, the two largest lakes of the group. Part of the salt is exported to the Western Siberia region.Месторождения соли в РФ и странах СНГ — Павлодарское месторождение соли
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Lake Ulken Tobylzhan is an elongated lake, part of a circular lake cluster located in the

Kulunda Steppe The Kulunda Steppe or Kulunda Plain (russian: Кулундинская равнина, kk, Құлынды даласы, ''Qūlyndy dalasy'') is an alluvial plain in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is an important agricultural region in Western Siberi ...

, southern end 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 ...

. It lies west of 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 ...

. The group of lakes is flat and has a diameter of roughly . It is surrounded by cultivated fields.

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Located in the southern half, Ulken Tobylzhan is the largest of the lakes in the cluster. Tobylzhan village lies near the southern lakeshore. The A17 Highway skirts the lake from the south and turns northeast and north, crossing the lake zone. Ulken Tobylzhan is followed by only slightly smaller Kishi Tobylzhan (''Maly Tavolzhan'') located to the north of its NW end. There are a number of smaller lakes, as well as salt marshes in the Tobylzhan cluster.

Lake

Maraldy Maraldy or Maraldi ( kk, Маралды) is a salt lake in Sharbakty District, Sharbakty and Pavlodar District, Pavlodar districts, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. The lake lies to the east of Pavlodar town, about west of the Russia-Kazakhstan b ...

lies to the south, and Ulken Azhbolat to the north of the lake cluster.

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* Endorheic lakes of Asia Lakes of Pavlodar Region West Siberian Plain {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub

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