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Sormoildy or Sormoiyldy (Kazakh: Сормойылды; Russian: Сормойылды) is a salt lake group in Beskaragay District, Abai Region, Kazakhstan.
Sormoildy is located 18 kilometers (11 mi) west of the Russia-Kazakhstan border. Koyanbay village lies 18 kilometers (11 mi) to the northeast, Begen 25 kilometers (16 mi) to the southwest and Beskaragay, the district capital, 60 kilometers (37 mi) to the SSE. Malinovoye Ozero town is located 45 kilometers (28 mi) to the northeast, on the other side of the Russian border.




Geography


Sormoildy is an endorheic lake cluster part of the Irtysh basin. It lies in a tectonic depression at the southern end of the Kulunda Plain. Lakes Tuz and Shoshkaly stretch roughly 30 kilometers (19 mi) to the southwest, and lake Bargana 32 kilometers (20 mi) to the NNW. Lake Malinovoye lies 44 kilometers (27 mi) to the northeast, on the other side of the border. The Irtysh river flows 75 kilometers (47 mi) to the WSW.
The lakes of the group are spread out in the flat basin and, except for the smaller ones on the periphery, they are connected following the melting of the steppe snow in the spring. By the summer most of the lakes are dry. The central part of the cluster has an approximate length of 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) and a width of 3.5 kilometers (2.2 mi), but its shoreline is not well defined, with numerous indentations and islands. In years of drought Sormoildy dries out completely.




Flora and fauna


Sormoildy is surrounded by steppe vegetation.




See also


Sor (geomorphology)




References






External links


Media related to Sormoildy at Wikimedia Commons
Hydrochemical Research and Geochemical Classification of Salt Lakes in the Pavlodar Region

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Sormoildy
• Sor (geomorphology)
• Malinovoye (lake)
• Shoshkaly (Abai Region)
• Bargana
• Begen
• Tuz (Akkuly District)