Zharagash ( kk, Жарағаш russian: Жарагаш) is a
salt lake
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in
Zhelezin District,
Pavlodar Region,
Kazakhstan.
The lake lies to the east of
Mayly village, about west of the
Kazakhstan-Russia border, and to the WSW of
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Novosibirsk Oblast,
Russian Federation.
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Geography
Zharagash is part of the Irtysh basin. It is a steppe lake
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of the Baraba Plain
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Geography
It stretches for across the Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts between the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers.
Gr ...
, located about to the southwest of Lake Chany, the largest lake of the area, on the other side of the border. The Kyzyltuz lake group, with pink lake Krasnovishnevoye
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on the Russian side, lies to the south.Google Earth
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Flora and fauna
The environment of Zharagash is too strongly saline to support any fauna in its waters. Reeds and grasses grow in some stretches of the salt marshes surrounding the lake.
See also
* List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
Железинский район
Lakes of Pavlodar Region
West Siberian Plain
Kazakhstan–Russia border
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