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Lake Balkhash

Index Lake Balkhash

Lake Balkhash (Балқаш көлі,; Озеро Балхаш, Ozero Balhaš) is one of the largest lakes in Asia and 15th largest in the world. [1]

142 relations: Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1950s, Ajaguz River, Akchi, Aksu River (Kazakhstan), Aktogay, East Kazakhstan Region, Alexander von Schrenk, Almaty Region, Argu Tagh, Balkhash, Balkhash (city), Balkhash marinka, Balkhash perch, Balkhash Radar Station, Balkhashtsvetmet, Basaral, Bastard sturgeon, Battle of the Kalka River, Battle of Zhizhi, Batu Khan, Betpak-Dala, BOR-5, Borohoro Mountains, Burunduk Khan, Caspian tiger, Caucasus Germans, Central Asia, Chagatai Khanate, Charyn River, China–Kazakhstan relations, Common minnow, Desert dormouse, Desert island, Division of the Mongol Empire, Dnestr radar, Drought, Dulu Turks, Dzungaria, Dzungarian Gate, Emil River, Emperor Yuan of Han, Endorheic basin, Energy policy of Kazakhstan, Eryx (genus), Fauna of Asia, Fenqing, Four Seas, Genghis Khan, Geography of Kazakhstan, Goitered gazelle, Golden Horde, ..., Henry Lansdell, High-speed rail in Kazakhstan, History of Mongolia, History of Sino-Russian relations, Ili River, Index of Kazakhstan-related articles, Internet in Russia, Islam during the Qing dynasty, Jambyl Region, Jimi system, Kalmyks, Kankalis, Kapchagay Reservoir, Karaganda Region, Karatal River, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstania, Kül-chor, Khoja (Turkestan), Kimek confederation, Korzhin Island, Kyzylarai, Lepsi, Lepsy River, Lev Berg, List of drainage basins by area, List of endorheic basins, List of lakes, List of lakes by area, List of lakes by volume, List of lakes of Kazakhstan, List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 10,000 to 20,000 square kilometers, List of rivers by length, List of rivers of China, List of Russian earth scientists, List of Russian explorers, List of Russian military bases abroad, List of Russian scientists, List of Turkish exonyms, Moghulistan, Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai, Mongols, National delimitation in the Soviet Union, Nomadic empire, Northern goshawk, Nuclear energy in Kazakhstan, Nuclear energy policy by country, Oghuz Turks, Oirats, Orda Khan, Perch, Planned high-speed rail by country, Priozersk, Kazakhstan, Proto-Mongols, Purple heron, Qapal River, Rouran Khaganate, Sary Shagan, Saryesik-Atyrau Desert, Saryshaghan, Savoia-Marchetti SM.75, Saxaul sparrow, Siberian tiger, Siberian Tiger Introduction Project, Siege of Moscow (1382), Spotted thicklip loach, Steppe polecat, Talas River, Tasaral Island, Telecommunications in Russia, Tiger, Tokhtamysh, Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), Treaty of Tarbagatai, Wild boar, Wings of the Golden Horde, Xinjiang, Xinjiang under Qing rule, Xiongnu, Zhetysu, Zhizhi Chanyu, Zhongar-Alatau National Park, Zhuz, 45th parallel north, 46th parallel north, 745, 74th meridian east, 75th meridian east, 76th meridian east, 77th meridian east, 78th meridian east, 79th meridian east. Expand index (92 more) »

Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1950s

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1950s.

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Ajaguz River

The Ajaguz (Aıagóz) also spelled Ayaguz and Ayaköz, is a river in Kazakhstan.

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Akchi

Akchi, also spelled Akchiy, is a populated place in Kazakhstan.

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Aksu River (Kazakhstan)

The Aksu River (Аксу, Ақсу) is a river in Kazakhstan that originates in the Dzungarian Alatau Mountains near the border with China and flows into Lake Balkhash.

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Aktogay, East Kazakhstan Region

Aktogay (Ақтоғай,, اقتوعاي) is a town in Ayagoz District, East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan and major railway hub of Turkestan-Siberian Railway.

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Alexander von Schrenk

Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (4 February 1816 – 25 June 1876) was a Baltic German naturalist born near Tula in what was then the Russian Empire.

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Almaty Region

Almaty (Алматы облысы, Almatı oblısı, الماتى وبلىسى; Алматинская область) is a region of Kazakhstan.

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Argu Tagh

For main article, see Pamir Mountains.

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Balkhash

Balkhash or Balqash may refer to.

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Balkhash (city)

Balkhash (Balqash; Балхаш, Balkhash) is a city in Kazakhstan, located on the northern shore of the Lake Balkhash, on the Bay Bertys, and in south of Kazakh Uplands.

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Balkhash marinka

The Balkhash marinka (Schizothorax argentatus), is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Schizothorax of the family Cyprinidae which is found in the Lake Balkhash basins in Kazakhstan and Xinjiang.

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Balkhash perch

The Balkhash perch (Perca schrenkii) is a species of perch endemic to the Lake Balkhash and Lake Alakol watershed system, which lies mainly in Kazakhstan.

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Balkhash Radar Station

Balkhash Radar Station (also described as Sary Shagan radar node and Balkhash-9) is the site of two generations of Soviet and Russian early warning radars.

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Balkhashtsvetmet

Balhashcvetmet ("Ferrous Metallurgy of Balkhash;" formerly known as "BGMC, for Balkhash Mining and Metallurgical Combine) is a copper-smelting combine located on the northern coast of the Lake Balkhash in Balkhash, Kazakhstan.

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Basaral

Basaral (Басарал) is an island in Lake Balkhash.

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Bastard sturgeon

The bastard sturgeon, fringebarbel sturgeon, ship sturgeon, spiny sturgeon, or thorn sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris) is a species of fish in the Acipenseridae family.

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Battle of the Kalka River

The Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на річці Калка, Битва на реке Калке) was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai the Valiant, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities, including Kiev and Galich, and the Cumans.

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Battle of Zhizhi

The Battle of Zhizhi (郅支之戰) was fought in 36 BC between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu chieftain Zhizhi Chanyu.

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Batu Khan

Batu Khan (Бат хаан, Bat haan, Бату хан, Bá dū, хан Баты́й, Μπατού; c. 1207–1255), also known as Sain Khan (Good Khan, Сайн хаан, Sayn hân) and Tsar Batu, was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a division of the Mongol Empire.

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Betpak-Dala

Betpak-Dala or Betpaqdala (Kazakh: Бетпақдала, from Turkic batpak, “swampy,” or Persian bedbaht, “unlucky” and Turkic dala, “plain”; Russian: Сeверная Голодная степь, lit. Hungry Steppe) is a desert region in Kazakhstan.

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BOR-5

The BOR-5 (БОР-5 Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан 5, Bespilotnyi Orbital'nyi Raketoplan 5, "Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 5") is a 1:8 sized test flight vehicle, used to study the main aerodynamic, thermal, acoustic and stability characteristics of the Buran.

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Borohoro Mountains

The Borohoro Mountains is one of the major ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system.

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Burunduk Khan

Burunduk Khan also known as Muryndyq was a son of Kerei Khan and the third Khan of Kazakh Khanate in 1474 or from 1480 to 1511.

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Caspian tiger

The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is an extinct tiger population.

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Caucasus Germans

Caucasus Germans (Kaukasiendeutsche) are part of the German minority in Russia and the Soviet Union.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate (Mongolian: Tsagadaina Khaanat Ulus/Цагаадайн Хаант Улс) was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors.

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Charyn River

The Charyn River (Шарын Şarın, or Sharyn) is a river in the Almaty Province of Kazakhstan.

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China–Kazakhstan relations

The bilateral relations between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the People's Republic of China have assumed an important strategic role with expanding commercial and strategic cooperation between the two nations.

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Common minnow

The Eurasian minnow, minnow, or common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) is a small species of freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae.

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Desert dormouse

The desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family, Gliridae.

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Desert island

A deserted island or uninhabited island is an island that is not permanently populated by humans.

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Division of the Mongol Empire

The division of the Mongol Empire began when Möngke Khan died in 1259 in the siege of Diaoyu castle with no declared successor, precipitating infighting between members of the Tolui family line for the title of Great Khan that escalated to the Toluid Civil War.

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Dnestr radar

Dnestr radar (Днестр) and Dnepr radar (Днепр), both known by the NATO reporting name Hen House are the first generation of Soviet space surveillance and early warning radars.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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Dulu Turks

The Dulu Turks (c603-651 as a minimum) (also Tu-Lu, Tulo, Dulo and other spellings) were a tribal confederation in the Western Turkic Khaganate (c581-659).

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Dzungaria

Dzungaria (also spelled Zungaria, Dzungharia or Zungharia, Dzhungaria or Zhungaria, or Djungaria or Jungaria) is a geographical region in northwest China corresponding to the northern half of Xinjiang, also known as Beijiang.

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Dzungarian Gate

The Dzungarian Gate is a geographically and historically significant mountain pass between China and Central Asia.

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Emil River

The Emil River (Еміл, Эмель) or Emin River, also spelled Emel, Imil, etc., is a river in China and Kazakhstan.

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Emperor Yuan of Han

Emperor Yuan of Han (75 BC – 8 July 33 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Energy policy of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan owns large reserves of energy resources, and therefore the energy policy of Kazakhstan has influence over the world's overall energy supply.

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Eryx (genus)

Eryx is a genus of nonvenomous boas found in southeastern Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, and southwestern Asia.

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Fauna of Asia

All the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands are considered the fauna of Asia.

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Fenqing

Fenqing, or "FQ" (abbreviation), which is itself an abbreviation for Fennu Qingnian, means literally "angry youth".

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Four Seas

The Four Seas were four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China.

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan or Temüjin Borjigin (Чингис хаан, Çingis hán) (also transliterated as Chinggis Khaan; born Temüjin, c. 1162 August 18, 1227) was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death.

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Geography of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia and Eastern Europe at.

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Goitered gazelle

The goitered or black-tailed gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) is a gazelle found in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwest China and Mongolia.

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Golden Horde

The Golden Horde (Алтан Орд, Altan Ord; Золотая Орда, Zolotaya Orda; Алтын Урда, Altın Urda) was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.

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Henry Lansdell

Henry Lansdell (10January 18414October 1919) was a nineteenth-century British priest in the Church of England.

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High-speed rail in Kazakhstan

Qazaqstan Temir Zholy, the national rail company of Kazakhstan, has awarded a contract to oversee the design and construction of a high-speed line from Astana (the country's capital) to Almaty (its largest city).

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History of Mongolia

Various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu (3rd century BCE to 1st century CE), the Xianbei state (93 to 234 CE), the Rouran Khaganate (330-555), the Turkic Khaganate (552-744) and others, ruled the area of present-day Mongolia.

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History of Sino-Russian relations

Prior to the 1600s China and Russia were on opposite ends of Siberia, which was populated by independent nomads.

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Ili River

Map of the Lake Balkhash drainage basin showing the Ili River and its tributaries The Ili River (Ile, ئله; Или;; Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ;, literally "Bareness") is a river situated in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.

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Index of Kazakhstan-related articles

Below is the list of Kazakhstan related articles.

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Internet in Russia

Internet in Russia or Russian Internet (российский Интернет which means Russia-related Internet) and sometimes Runet (using first two letters from Russian plus net) is a part of the Internet which is related to Russia.

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Islam during the Qing dynasty

Qing dynasty (1644–1911).

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Jambyl Region

Jambyl Region (Жамбыл облысы, Jambyl oblysy, جامبىل وبلىسى) is a region of Kazakhstan.

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Jimi system

The Jimi system (Chinese: 羁縻制) or Jimifuzhou (羁縻府州) was an autonomous administrative and political organization system used in China between the 7th century and 10th century.

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Kalmyks

The Kalmyks (Kalmyk: Хальмгуд, Xaľmgud, Mongolian: Халимаг, Halimag) are the Oirats in Russia, whose ancestors migrated from Dzungaria in 1607.

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Kankalis

They are not to be confused with the Kankali in India. Kankalis, Qanqlis, or Kangly (Kanglı/Qangli) were a Turkic people of Eurasia.

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Kapchagay Reservoir

Kapchagay Reservoir, also spelled Qapshaghay Bogeni Reservoir and sometimes referred to as Lake Kapchagay, is a major reservoir in Almaty Region in southeastern Kazakhstan, approximately 60 kilometres north of Almaty.

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Karaganda Region

Karaganda Region (Қарағанды облысы label; translit), also spelled Qaraghandy Region, is a region of Kazakhstan.

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Karatal River

The Karatal River (Каратал; Khalkha Mongolian: Хартал Hartal, "Black Steppe"), also known as the Qaratal River (Qaratal), is a river in Kazakhstan that originates in the Dzungarian Alatau Mountains near the border of with China and flows into Lake Balkhash.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.

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Kazakhstania

Kazakhstania, the Kazakh terranes, or the Kazakhstan Block, is a geological region in Central Asia which consists of the area roughly centered on Lake Balkhash, north and east of the Aral Sea, south of the Siberian craton and west of the Altai Mountains.

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Kül-chor

Kül-chor, known in Arabic sources as Kūrṣūl (كورصول) and identified with the Baga Tarkhan of the Chinese records, was one of the main Turgesh leaders under the khagan Suluk.

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Khoja (Turkestan)

Khoja or Khwaja, (Қожа, خوجا), a Persian word literally meaning 'master', was used in Central Asia as a title of the descendants of the noted Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi teacher, Ahmad Kasani (1461–1542) or others in the Naqshbandi intellectual lineage prior to Baha al-din Naqshband.

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Kimek confederation

The Kimek confederation was a medieval Turkic state formed by the Kimek and Kipchak people in the area between the Ob and Irtysh rivers.

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Korzhin Island

Korzhin Island (also known as Kurzhin, Kurdzhyn, Korzhun, Kurzhon or Kurdzhun Island) is a long and flat island in Lake Balkhash.

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Kyzylarai

Kyzylarai (Кызыларай) is a massif, a part of the Kazakh Melkosopochnik (Kazakh Uplands), situated in Karaganda Region in Central Kazakhstan.

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Lepsi

Lepsi (Лепсі) is a village in Sarkand District, Almaty Region, in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

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Lepsy River

The Lepsy River (Лепсі; Лепсы) also known as the Lepsa River or the Lepsi River, is a river in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

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Lev Berg

Lev Semyonovich Berg (also known as Leo S. Berg) (Лев Семёнович Берг.; 14 March 1876, Bender – 24 December 1950, Leningrad) was a leading Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950.

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List of drainage basins by area

The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as watersheds or catchments), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies.

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List of endorheic basins

The following is a list of endorheic basins—watersheds which do not drain to the sea.

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List of lakes

For rank-order lists, see List of lakes by area, List of lakes by depth, List of lakes by volume.

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List of lakes by area

This is a list of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately, ranked by area.

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List of lakes by volume

This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km³, ranked by volume.

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List of lakes of Kazakhstan

Most of Kazakhstan is endorheic basin (except northern territories).

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List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 10,000 to 20,000 square kilometers

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List of rivers by length

This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.

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List of rivers of China

This incomplete list of rivers that flow through China is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean.

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List of Russian earth scientists

This list of Russian Earth scientists includes the notable geographers, geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, ecologists and other representatives of Earth sciences from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.

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List of Russian explorers

The history of exploration by citizens or subjects of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Tsardom of Russia and other Russian predecessor states forms a significant part of the history of Russia as well as the history of the world.

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List of Russian military bases abroad

This article lists military bases of Russia abroad.

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List of Russian scientists

Alona Soschen.

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List of Turkish exonyms

An exonym is a place name, used by non-natives of that place, that differs from the official or native name for that place.

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Moghulistan

Moghulistan (Mughalistan, Moghul Khanate) (from مغولستان, Moqulestân/Moġūlistān), also called the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, was a Mongol breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate and a historical geographic area north of the Tian Shan mountain range, on the border of Central Asia and East Asia.

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Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai

The Mongol Empire conquered the Qara Khitai in the years 1216–1218 AD.

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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National delimitation in the Soviet Union

National delimitation in the Soviet Union refers to the process of creating well-defined national territorial units (Soviet socialist republics – SSR, autonomous Soviet socialist republics – ASSR, autonomous oblasts (provinces), raions (districts) and okrugs) from the ethnic diversity of the Soviet Union and its subregions.

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Nomadic empire

Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, are the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic peoples in the Eurasian steppe, from classical antiquity (Scythia) to the early modern era (Dzungars).

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Northern goshawk

The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a medium-large raptor in the family Accipitridae, which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harriers.

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Nuclear energy in Kazakhstan

As of 2015, Kazakhstan has no active nuclear power generation capacity.

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Nuclear energy policy by country

National nuclear energy policy is a national policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy, such as mining for nuclear fuel, extraction and processing of nuclear fuel from the ore, generating electricity by nuclear power, enriching and storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel reprocessing.

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Oghuz Turks

The Oghuz, Oguz or Ghuzz Turks were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz languages from the Common branch of Turkic language family.

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Oirats

Oirats (Oirad or Ойрд, Oird; Өөрд; in the past, also Eleuths) are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of western Mongolia.

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Orda Khan

Orda Ichen (Lord Orda, Орд эзэн ("Ord ezen")) was a Mongol Khan and military strategist who ruled eastern part of the Golden Horde (division of the Mongol Empire) during the 13th century.

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Perch

Perch is a common name for fish of the genus Perca, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae.

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Planned high-speed rail by country

This article lists planned or proposed high-speed rail projects, arranged by country.

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Priozersk, Kazakhstan

Priozersk (Prıozersk; Приозёрск, Priozyorsk) is a closed city at Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan.

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Proto-Mongols

The proto-Mongols emerged from an area that had been inhabited by humans and predecessor hominin species as far back as the Stone Age over 800,000 years ago.

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Purple heron

The purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wide-ranging species of wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae.

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Qapal River

The Qapal (Қапал) is a river of Almaty Province, south-eastern Kazakhstan.

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Rouran Khaganate

The Rouran Khaganate, Ruanruan, Ruru, or Tantan was the name of a state established by proto-Mongols, from the late 4th century until the middle 6th century.

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Sary Shagan

Sary Shagan (Сары-Шаган; Сарышаған) is an anti-ballistic missile testing range located in Kazakhstan.

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Saryesik-Atyrau Desert

The Saryesik Atyrau Desert (Saryesikatyray’) stretches for about 400 km south of Lake Balkhash in eastern Kazakhstan.

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Saryshaghan

Saryshaghan is a town in Kazakhstan located on the coast of Lake Balkhash at Latitude (DMS): 46° 7' 9 N Longitude (DMS): 73° 37' 9 E in Karaganda Region.

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Savoia-Marchetti SM.75

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 was an Italian passenger and military transport aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Saxaul sparrow

The saxaul sparrow (Passer ammodendri) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in parts of Central Asia.

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Siberian tiger

The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), also called Amur tiger, is a tiger population inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East.

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Siberian Tiger Introduction Project

The Siberian Tiger Introduction Project involves reestablishing populations of the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris alatica), also known as the Amur tiger, in their former range and also expanding their range by introducing them as replacements of their genetically similar relative, the extinct Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata), which inhabited Central and Western Asia.

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Siege of Moscow (1382)

The Siege of Moscow in 1382 was a battle between Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde, and the Muscovite forces.

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Spotted thicklip loach

Spotted thicklip loach (Triplophysa strauchii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Triplophysa.

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Steppe polecat

The steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii), also known as the white or masked polecat, is a species of mustelid native to Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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Talas River

The Talas River (Kyrgyz, Талас) rises in the Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan and flows west into Kazakhstan.

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Tasaral Island

Tasaral Island (Тасарал Aрал) is an island in Lake Balkhash.

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Telecommunications in Russia

Censorship and the issue of Media freedom in Russia have been main themes since the era of the telegraph.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.

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Tokhtamysh

Tokhtamysh (tat. Tuqtamış) The spelling of Tokhtamysh varies, but the most common spelling is Tokhtamysh.

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Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)

The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), also known as Treaty of Ili, was the treaty between the Russian Empire and the Qing dynasty, signed in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on.

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Treaty of Tarbagatai

The Treaty of Tarbagatai (or Chuguchak) of 7 October 1864 was a border protocol between China and Russia that defined most of the western extent of their border in central Asia, between Outer Mongolia and the Khanate of Kokand.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.

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Wings of the Golden Horde

According to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1318), Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi, had nearly 40 sons, of whom he names 14.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Xinjiang under Qing rule

Xinjiang under Qing rule refers to the Qing dynasty's rule over Xinjiang from the late 1750s to 1912.

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Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Asian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD.

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Zhetysu

Zhetysu or Semirechye (Jetisu', Жетісу, pronounced meaning "seven rivers"; also transcribed Zhetisu, Jetisuw, Jetysu, Jeti-su, Jity-su, Жетысу, Джетысу etc. and Yedi-su in Turkish, هفت‌آب Haft-āb in Persian) is a historical name of a part of Central Asia, corresponding to the southeastern part of modern Kazakhstan.

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Zhizhi Chanyu

Zhizhi Chanyu (郅支單于?, died 36 BC) was a Chanyu of the Xiongnu at the time of the first Xiongnu civil war, who held the north and west in contention with his younger brother Huhanye who held the south.

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Zhongar-Alatau National Park

Zhongar-Alatau National Park (Kazakh: Жоңғар Алатауы ұлттық паркі) (also: Jungar Alatau, or Dzungurian Alatau) was created in 2010 to protect the unique ecology of the Dzungarian Alatau, an isolated, glaciated mountain range in Kazakhstan, on the southeastern border with China.

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Zhuz

A zhuz (ju’z, ٴجۇز, also translated as "horde" or "hundred") is one of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kypchak Plain area that covers much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represents the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.

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45th parallel north

The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator.

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46th parallel north

The 46th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 46 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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745

Year 745 (DCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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74th meridian east

The meridian 74° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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75th meridian east

The meridian 75° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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76th meridian east

The meridian 76° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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77th meridian east

The meridian 77° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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78th meridian east

The meridian 78° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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79th meridian east

The meridian 79° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balkhash

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