Kishi Tobylzhan
Kishi Tobylzhan (Kazakh: Кіші Тобылжан, "Little Tobylzhan"; Russian: Малый Таволжан, Maly Tavolzhan) is a salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
| Kishi Tobylzhan | |
|---|---|
| Кіші Тобылжан | |
Sentinel-2 image of the lake cluster | |
Kishi Tobylzhan | |
| Location | West Siberian Plain |
| Coordinates | 52°46′42″N 77°37′32″E |
| Type | endorheic |
| Basin countries | Kazakhstan |
| Max. length | 7.2 kilometers (4.5 mi) |
| Max. width | 2.8 kilometers (1.7 mi) |
| Surface area | 10.9 square kilometers (4.2 sq mi) |
| Residence time | UTC+6 |
| Shore length1 | 18 kilometers (11 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 92 meters (302 ft) |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
The lake lies 44 kilometers (27 mi) west of the Kazakhstan–Russia border, 51 kilometers (32 mi) to the northeast of Pavlodar town and 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) south of Uspenka, the district capital. There is commercial extraction of salt from Maly Tobylzhan and its larger neighbor Ulken Tobylzhan. Some of the salt is exported to Western Siberia.
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