Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed.
A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian) is a
salt lake
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in
Irtysh District
Ertis ( kk, Ертіс ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Ertis. Population:
Geography
Lake Zhalauly, a briny endorheic lake
An endorheic lake ( ...
,
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 ...
,
Kazakhstan
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.
Zhalauly is located about northwest of lake
Shyganak
Shyganak or Shaganak ( kk, Шығанақ; russian: Шаганак), ''
Geography
Zhalauly 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 ...
lying at the southern end 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 ...
. It consists of a larger western lake and a smaller eastern one, connected at the northern end by a
sound
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In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
. There are small
salt flats Salt flats, Salt flat, Salt Flats, or Salt Flat may refer to: Geology
*Salt pan (geology), a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals
* Dry lake, an ephemeral lakebed that consists of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali sal ...
and
salt marsh
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es to the northeast.The Origin of the Depression Lake Systems /ref> The lakeshores are dissected and largely swampy. The lake freezes in early November and thaws in late April.
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During periods of drought the lake may completely dry up, but in rare years of exceptional
snowfall
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
, the waters of the
Shiderti
The Shiderti ( kk, Шідерті, ''Şıdertı''; in its lower course: ''Karasu'') is a river of Kazakhstan. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
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 ...