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Kypshak

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Kypshak
Kypshak. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Kypshak (Kazakh: Қыпшақ), also known as Azhibeksor (Kazakh: Әжібайсор; Russian: Ажибексор), is a salt lake in Nura District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.

In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a salt pan, but in the following decades it filled up once more and on the USSR topographic map of 1989 it was marked again as a lake.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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